Maurice De Valois Turk is head of Oxera’s Amsterdam office. He is an experienced competition economist and financial analyst, advising companies on how to deal with merger investigations and regulatory matters. He has advised notifying firms as well as third party interveners in the context of mergers (unilateral, coordinated, vertical or conglomerate effects). In addition, he has extensive experience with remedies, having acted as monitoring trustee on multiple mandates as well as project manager for the creation and implementation of various merger remedies. Maurice De Valois Turk is a non-governmental adviser to the International Competition Network on behalf of the European Commission, and is active in the Mergers workgroup. As well as the European Commission, he has worked with competition authorities across Europe (in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland). He has also assisted telecoms and media firms on a range of matters covering regulation and market power. Prior to joining Oxera, Maurice worked for seven years as an in-house economist with Liberty Global and KPN, and for 14 years with various consultancy firms.
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Third country, second thoughts? The EU’s foreign subsidies regulation The European Parliament and the Council are currently debating the European Commission’s proposed regulation on foreign subsidies, which covers subsidies granted by third countries that have the potential to distort (...)
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On 17 March 2020, the Dutch Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (CBb) published its long-awaited verdict on the appeal against the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) 2018 finding of joint dominance in the Dutch retail broadband market. Why did the CBb rule in favour of the (...)
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The merger The merger involved the acquisition of Alpuro Holding BV (“Alpuro”) by Van Drie Holding BV (“Van Drie”). The merger was announced on 19 November 2009. Van Drie is active throughout the entire production chain for producing veal. This cover the production and sale of veal feed (...)
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The merger The merger involved the acquisition of Veolia Transdev by Veolia Environnement S.A. (“Veolia”) and Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (“CDC”). The firm Veolia Transdev contains the activities of Veolia Transport S.A., a subsidiary of Veolia and Transdev S.A., a subsidiary of CDC. (...)
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The merger The merger involved the acquisition of Lloyds Nederland BV («Lloyds») by Brocacef Holding NV («Brocacef»). Lloyds operated 63 pharmacies in the Netherlands at the time of the decision by the Netherlands competition authority («NMa») and is a subsidiary of the German group (...)
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The complaint The appeal relates to a complaint submitted by a society of travellers (Vereniging van Reizigers -“VVR”) to the Netherlands Competition Authority (“NMa”) on 16 April 2003. The complaint alleges that the airlines KLM and SLM are abusing their dominant position on the route (...)
