Cyriel Ruers

Practice Areas

Cyriel Ruers is a lawyer in the field of public economic law, with extensive experience in competition law, market regulation and consumer protection matters.

He has a broad experience in administrative enforcement proceedings – such as administrative fines – before inter alia the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM), the Human Environment and Transport Directorate (ILT) and the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).

His competition law practice covers the full width and ranges from investigations by the ACM into cartel infringements to merger control, co-operation agreements and (online) distribution matters. He also assists companies during dawn raids.

Cyriel regularly advises companies in regulated sectors, such as telecom, aviation and energy. He inter alia assisted a major telecom provider in the most recent state auction of telecom frequencies (the "5G auction") and represented airlines in proceedings against the Dutch government regarding slot allocation rules at airports.

Cyriel advises and represents companies in various cases about unfair commercial practices and online pricing. He has particular experience in greenwashing cases, most recently in proceedings before the Advertising Code Committee (RCC) concerning carbon offsets in the aviation sector.