Stéphane Dewulf joined Oxera in September 2020. He has expertise in competition law, with experience both as a consultant and as an enforcer. He was previously a case handler at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition, where he worked for six years. His work for the Commission was shared equally between merger control and antitrust investigations, and he had a particular focus on the following sectors : digital, IT, media, telecoms and energy. Before joining the Commission, Stéphane Dewulf worked as an economist for eight years in two leading economics consultancies in the field of competition policy. He provided economic advice to companies in relation to mergers, horizontal and vertical agreements, and abuse of dominance—mostly in the context of investigations by the Commission and other competition authorities in Europe, but also in the context of private litigation. His experience in the private sector covers a wide range of sectors including digital, media, pharmaceuticals, telecoms, consumer electronics, air transport, basic industries, manufacturing, FMCG and banking. Stéphane Dewulf holds a Master in European Economics from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Master in Competition and Market Regulation from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
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Siemens / Dresser* In a nutshell The Commission was concerned that the acquisition of Dresser-Rand by Siemens would reduce the number of significant suppliers from 3 to 2 for rotating equipment in the oil and gas industry. The in-depth investigation showed that the parties’ activities in gas (...)
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On 4 April 2008, the Belgian Competition Council found the three biggest producers of Butyl Benzyl Phthalate (BBP) - i.e. Bayer, Ferro and Solutia Europe - and a distributor (Lonza) guilty of fixing price, market-sharing, limiting output and exchanging strategic information. BBP is a chemical (...)
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Introduction On 25 of January 2008, the Belgian Competition Council fined the Flemish Association of Bakeries (hereafter “VEBIC”) € 29,000 for the publication of a bread price index and a cost scheme in violation to article 2 paragraph 1 of the new WBEM . The Competition Council argues that by (...)
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Introduction On the 23rd of August 2007, the Brussels Court of Appeal accepted the request of UGC, Utopolis and FCB to revoke a decision by the Belgian Competition Council concerning the cinema chain Kinepolis. This latter decision lifted the restrictions imposed on Kinepolis in 1997 when the (...)
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Ce dossier réunit trois contributions sur le sujet des relations fournisseurs-distributeurs. Ces contributions, présentées le 22 octobre 2010 à Paris, sont issues du cycle de formation Economie et droit de la concurrence organisé par la revue Concurrences. La première contribution, rédigée par Me (...)
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