Matteo Stainer is an associate in the Competition & EU Law Group of Bird & Bird in The Hague, where he advises and litigates on matters pertaining to EU and Dutch competition law and public procurement law.
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Summary On 23 June 2021, the District Court of Rotterdam (“District Court”) held that a so-called special purpose vehicle, was eligible as a claimant for part of the cartel damages it had claimed. The claimant Stichting Elevator Cartel Claim (“SECC”), represented many customers who had (...)
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On 1 June 2021 the Dutch Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (“CBb”), which is the highest administrative court in the Netherlands, upheld the annulment of the nearly € 41 million abuse of dominance fine imposed by the Authority for Consumers and Markets (“ACM”, the Dutch competition (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. In this latest instalment of the Trucks Cartel saga, the Amsterdam District Court (“District Court”) refutes the cartelists’ arguments by ruling that the issue (...)
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On 6 May 2021, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (“ACM”) published its updated market study (“FttH report”) into the roll-out in the Netherlands of fibre-optic broadband networks for households (Fiber-to-the-Home). The ACM started its FttH market study in April 2019 in (...)
