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Alexandre G. Verheyden

Jones Day (Brussels)
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Alexandre Verheyden is Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day’s Brussels Office, and coordinates the firm’s competition practice in Europe. Alexandre concentrates on complex merger cases. His experience spans all fields of competition law including abuse of dominant position/monopoly offense, cartel, merger, and state aid cases. He represents major corporations and governments before the European Commission, European courts, and national authorities. He has also served as co-chair of the Communications Committee of the International Bar Association. He was a winner of the 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards for the article "EU Court of Justice Provides Guidance on Abusive Margin Squeezes" and was a scholarship recipient of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He has authored various articles in the field of competition law and speaks regularly at conferences. He was previously admitted to the New York State Bar.

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Eric Barbier de la Serre, Yvan N. Desmedt, Mark Jones, Mario Todino, Geoffroy Van De Walle, Alexandre G. Verheyden The EU Court of Justice annuls a General Court decision which had adopted a high standard of proof for the Commission to block transactions in concentrated markets in which neither the parties to the deal nor other competitors have a dominant position (Telefónica / Hutchison 3G)

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In Short The Development: The Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") annulled a General Court ("GC") ruling that had adopted a high standard of proof for the European Commission ("EC") to block transactions in concentrated markets in which neither the parties to the deal nor other (...)

Bernard Amory, Charlotte Breuvart, Serge Clerckx, Charles de Navacelle, Laurent De Muyter, Yvan N. Desmedt, Kaarli Harry Eichhorn, Mario Todino, Alexandre G. Verheyden, Philipp Werner The EU Commission takes action to amend the Framework on exclusionary abuses of dominance

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In Short The Situation: On 27 March 2023, the European Commission ("Commission") published a Communication amending its 2008 Guidance on enforcement priorities concerning exclusionary abuses ("amended 2008 Guidance Paper"), and launched a consultation process for the adoption of Guidelines (...)

Yvan N. Desmedt, Alexandre G. Verheyden, Laurent De Muyter, Remy Fekete, Holger Neumann, Marta Lahuerta Escolano The EU Commission proposes a draft Gigabit Infrastructure Act to fast-track the deployment of very high-capacity fixed and mobile connectivity and replace the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive

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In Short The Situation: The European Commission has presented three initiatives to transform the connectivity sector on 23 February 2023 (the "Connectivity Package"). The State of Play: The European Commission has proposed a draft Gigabit Infrastructure Act ("GIA") proposal that would come (...)

Jürgen Beninca, Nicolas Brice, Serge Clerckx, Laurent De Muyter, Alexandre G. Verheyden The EU Commission blocks Hungary’s attempt to veto a transaction in the insurance sector under FDI rules (AEGON / Vienna Insurance)

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In Short The Situation: The European Commission ("EC") issued its first decision ("Decision") regarding the intersection of EU merger control rules and the recent growth in national Foreign Direct Investment ("FDI") regimes. The EC found that the Hungarian government’s decision to block a (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Geoffroy Van De Walle, Bernard Amory, Ryan C. Thomas, Craig A. Waldman, Yizhe Zhang The EU Commission proposes a chip act to confront semiconductor shortages and strengthen Europe’s technological leadership

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In Short The Background: The recent semiconductor shortage, COVID-related supply chain disruptions, and trade tensions have exposed the European Union’s ("EU") dependency on chips made in other continents. The Development: The European Commission ("EC") has proposed legislation—the EU (...)

Bernard Amory, Jürgen Beninca, Laurent De Muyter, Geoffroy Van De Walle, Alexandre G. Verheyden, Craig A. Waldman The EU General Court annuls the Commission’s landmark decision fining a semiconductor company for €1.06B for abuse of dominant position (Intel)

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The EU General Court ("GC") annulled the European Commission’s €1.06 billion antitrust fine imposed on Intel in 2009 for allegedly abusing its dominant position in x86 Central Processing Units ("CPUs") by offering loyalty rebates to customers, excluding competitors such as AMD. The GC held (...)

Charlotte Breuvart, Eric Barbier de la Serre, Marta Delgado Echevarría, Yvan N. Desmedt, Mario Todino, Alexandre G. Verheyden, Philipp Werner The EU Commission issues its State aid guidance on national recovery and resilience plans and makes it clear that all investment projects must comply with State aid rules

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In Short The Situation: The European Commission has launched its largest ever stimulus package to support recovery of EU economies from the COVID-19 pandemic’s unprecedented economic and social disruption. Each EU Member State must submit a recovery plan and funding requests for Commission (...)

Laurent De Muyter, Bernard Amory, Alexandre G. Verheyden, Yvan N. Desmedt, Eric Barbier de la Serre, Craig A. Waldman, Jörg Hladjk, Undine Von Diemar, Matt Evans The EU Commission unveils sweeping proposals to regulate the digital sector

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In Short The Development: The European Commission ("EC") recently released two long-awaited legislative proposals, the Digital Services Act ("DSA") and Digital Markets Act ("DMA"), that would significantly increase the EC’s regulatory oversight of online platform companies (previewed in our (...)

Peter J. Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Dr. Qiang Xue, Geoffrey D. Oliver, Alexandre G. Verheyden, Haifeng Huang The Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation publishes anti-monopoly guidelines on intellectual property

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In August 2020, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China’s State Administration for Market Regulation released four long-awaited sets of anti-monopoly guidelines addressing issues relating to leniency, commitments, the automobile industry, and intellectual property rights. The subjects of this White (...)

Peter J. Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Dr. Qiang Xue, Marc Siegel, Alexandre G. Verheyden The Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation publishes anti-monopoly guidelines on leniency and commitments

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This article has been nominated for the 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. The Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) released four sets of long-awaited anti-monopoly guidelines. This White (...)

Yvan N. Desmedt, Laurent De Muyter, Eva Monard, Alexandre G. Verheyden The EU Commission endorses the toolbox of mitigating measures aiming to secure 5G network in the Union due to alleged ties between certain telecom equipment suppliers and foreign governments

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In January 2020, the European Commission endorsed the Toolbox of mitigating measures agreed by the Member States of the European Union to address security risks related to the rollout of 5G. The protection of national security, and cybersecurity in particular, are unquestionably legitimate (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Charlotte Breuvart, Henry de la Barre d’Erquelinnes The EU Court of Justice expands cartel damages liability for corporate parents and successors (Vantaan Kaupunki / Skanska Industrial Solutions)

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This article has been nominated for the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. In Short The Development: The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that parent companies and economic successors can be held liable for damages caused by a (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Philipp Werner, Jörg Hladjk, Undine Von Diemar The German Competition Authority considers that a social network company’s data processing terms, enabling the collection, merger, and use of user data without valid consent, constitutes an abuse of a dominant position (Facebook)

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In Short The Situation: An investigation launched in 2016 by the German competition authority was meant to determine if Facebook was abusing its market position with its imposition of "misleading" data protection policies. The Result: It was concluded that Facebook’s data processes did abuse (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Bernard Amory, Jürgen Beninca, Laurent De Muyter The EU Court of Justice annuls the General Court’s ruling that upheld the fine imposed by the Commission for an abuse of dominance (Intel)

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What happened? The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") set aside a General Court ruling that had upheld a €1.06 billion fine imposed by the European Commission on Intel for abusing its dominant position in the market for x86 central processing units ("CPUs"). Background In its 2009 (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Eric Barbier de la Serre, Eric Morgan de Rivery The EU Court of Human Rights rules that dawn raids carried out at the premises of two companies by the French Department for Competition, Consumer Protection and Fraud violates both the rights of defense and the right to privacy (Vinci / GTM)

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recently ruled that dawn raids carried out at the premises of two French construction companies by the DGCCRF (French Department for Competition, Consumer Protection and Fraud) violated both the rights of defense and the right to privacy, due to (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Bernard Amory, Yvan N. Desmedt The EU Commission adopts revised safe harbor rules for minor agreements and provides guidance on "by object" restrictions of competition

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The European Commission has published revised safe harbor rules for agreements that are not deemed to appreciably restrict competition. This is the so-called "De Minimis Notice," the first version of which dates back to 2001. At the same time, the Commission also published guidance on the (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Francesco Liberatore, Johannes Zöttl The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) institutes a new supra-national African competition law regime

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A new supra-national African competition law regime, the COMESA Competition Commission ("CCC"), began operations in January 2013. This new regime includes new merger control regulations likely to have a significant impact on international businesses with local operations in the region. The CCC (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Serge Clerckx The EU Court of Justice issues a preliminary ruling in a case concerning price squeeze abuses providing clear guidance on this issue (TeliaSonera)

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This article has been nominated for the 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. On 17 February 2011, the European Union Court of Justice ("CJ") issued a preliminary ruling in an ongoing case concerning price squeeze abuses. Questions were (...)

Alexandre G. Verheyden, Bernard Amory, Carsten Gromotke, Joe Sims, Philip A. Proger, Stefano Macchi di Cellere, Tom D. Smith The European Commission adopts a new Leniency Notice

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The detection and punishment of illegal cartels are at the top of the European Commission’s enforcement agenda. In 2001, the Commission meted out record fines in cartel cases totaling $ 1.6 billion, eclipsing the U.S. single-year record of $ 1.1 billion. Historically, the Commission’s fabled « (...)

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