Kristien was a competition lawyer with Herbert Smith Freehills, London office. She studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, at the Institut Européen, Nice and at UCL (LLM) and specialises in all aspects of EU and UK competition law.
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Introduction On 6 October 2015, the European Court of Justice (the Court) issued its preliminary ruling in Post Danmark A/S v Konkurrencerådet (Competition Council), which concerns the antitrust treatment of a retroactive rebate scheme in the market for the distribution of bulk mail. The case (...)
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In its ruling of 19 March 2015 (Case C-286/13P) relating to the banana cartel, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) dismissed the appeal by banana importer Dole against the General Court’s judgment in its entirety. The CJEU agreed with the Commission’s findings, supported by the General Court, (...)
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On 25 April 2013 the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (ERR Bill) received Royal Assent. The proposals for reform of the UK competition regime, published by the Government in March 2012, are set out in Part 3 and Part 4 of the new ERR Act and are expected to come fully into force in April (...)
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1. Introduction The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has dismissed AstraZeneca’s appeal against the Commission’s and General Court’s findings that the company abused its dominant position under Article 102 TFEU by misusing the patent system and pharmaceutical marketing procedures in order to (...)
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