Vincent’s practice focuses on Belgian and EU competition law. He is a seasoned multifaceted antitrust lawyer with significant expertise in successfully managing local and global complex multi-jurisdictional merger filings/cartel investigations and the development and implementation of tailored competition compliance programs. Vincent has been practicing competition law in Brussels for more than 15 years. He started his career in 2004 as a trainee at the European Commission and the Belgian Competition Authority. He subsequently worked at two international law firms and also acquired significant in-house experience as antitrust counsel at two major global multinationals. In May 2019, Vincent was selected as a future leader of international competition practice in the Who’s Who Legal Competition law survey conducted in conjunction with Global Competition Review and which lists the foremost practitioners in the competition community aged under 45. The 2019 Legal 500 rankings for Belgian Competition Law described Vincent as a lawyer who "really goes the extra mile for his clients". Vincent specialized in European law at the College of Europe, Bruges (Master Degree in European Law) (2004) and at the Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg (Interdisciplinary Diploma of European Studies) (2003), and obtained his law degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2002) and the Facultés Universities Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur (1999). Vincent joined Liedekerke as a Partner in August 2019.
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On 23 December 2011, the Competition Council cleared after a second phase investigation the acquisition by Belgacom, the incumbent telecom provider in Belgium, of Wireless Technologies, the operator of The Phone House, the only remaining multibrand distributor at retail level offering telecom (...)
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On 13 October 2011, the Competition Council granted a derogation from the standstill obligation under which concentrations that are notifiable in Belgium cannot be implemented before clearance. The Belgian State obtained this derogation for its acquisition of the shares of Dexia Bank België NV (...)
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On 7 September 2011, the Competition Council cleared the acquisition by Waterman & Waterman Comm VA (W&W), Corelio NV (Corelio) and Sanoma Corporation (hereinafter Sanoma) of joint control over De Vijver Media (De Vijver Media), a financial holding company with participations in a (...)
