Frans Muller is a Counsel with Clifford Chance based in the firm’s Amsterdam office. He heads the Amsterdam Antitrust group and is part of the Amsterdam Tech Group. He specialises in multi-jurisdictional merger control, cartel investigations and other behavioural antitrust as well as State aid and compliance matters (including anti-bribery and sanctions). In addition, he advises on foreign direct investment screening. He has wide experience with a variety of regulators and regularly advises on (multi-jurisdictional) regulatory investigations and implementing compliance policies and (internal document) reviews.
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Sustainability is raising issues within competition law and various regulators in Europe are becoming increasingly vocal about enforcement policies in their own and other countries. Both in the daily press and in the recent Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Martijn Snoep, the Chairman of The (...)
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On 9 March 2016, the District Court of The Hague ("Court") ruled that Centraal Bureau Levensmiddelenhandel ("CBL") and various Jumbo entities ("Jumbo") infringed Article 6 of the Dutch Competition Act (the cartel prohibition, hereafter "Mw") and are thus jointly and severally liable for (...)
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In January 2006 summary proceedings were brought before the District Court of Maastricht by a franchisee (hereafter: the claimant) against its franchisor BBQ Franchise B.V. (hereafter: BBQ). The District Court applied EC competition law to set out the limits of what can and cannot be arranged (...)
