Thomas Janssens is a Partner in the antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He has been a partner in the firm’s Brussels office since May 2005. Prior to joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2001, Thomas worked as a foreign associate with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. Thomas specialises in EU and Belgian competition law with particular expertise in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), energy and transport sectors. He represents clients on the full range of antitrust matters (mergers, cartels, dominance cases) with an emphasis on practice before the European Commission and national competition authorities. Thomas also regularly represents clients before the European Court of Justice and national courts. Recently nominated by Global Competition Review in the “Ten more to watch” category in its survey of “The world’s 40 brightest young antitrust lawyers and economists”, Thomas is also listed as a recommended lawyer in the “Which lawyer ?” sections of PLC’s Competition Handbook and Communications Handbook. Thomas was educated at the University of Leuven in Belgium and at Columbia Law School in the US, and was admitted to the Brussels bar in 1995. He has spoken and published on a variety of EU competition law topics and is co-consulting editor of the Getting the Deal Through : Dominance guide. Thomas speaks English, French and Dutch.
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On 21 March, the Belgian Parliament adopted legislation introducing a new concept of abuse of economic dependence in Belgian competition law. The new provision will allow the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) to establish and sanction abuses without the need to establish market dominance, (...)
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Exclusivity rebates are used in markets ranging from postal deliveries through ice cream to computer processors and are normally regarded as beneficial to consumers. However, when applied by dominant companies such rebates could potentially entrench an existing market position and have been (...)
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Today marks the entry into force of the law which implements Directive No. 2014/104/EU of the European Parliament and Council of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for compensation of damages arising out of anti-competitive practices (the Damages Directive) into the Belgian (...)
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The COMESA Competition Commission (the CCC) announced on 8 April 2015 that the Council of Ministers of the COMESA member states has approved the introduction of long-awaited monetary filing thresholds and a scaling down of merger filing fees. These changes address two of the key concerns voiced (...)
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A survey of merger litigation in Europe, 25 years after the entry into force of the first EU merger regulation and the subsequent merger control proliferation across the Member States certainly deserves a special issue of e-Concurrence. Indeed, a high-level review of merger cases brought (...)
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In 1999 the Commission fined British Airways (BA) €6,800,000 for abuse of its dominant position on the market for air travel agency services, contrary to article 82 of the EC Treaty. The abuse consisted of a system of rebates granted to travel agents that was held to be both loyalty inducing and (...)
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This concise and practical guide to the most important economic techniques and evidence employed in modern merger control draws on the authors’ extensive experience in advising on European merger cases. It offers an introduction to the relevant economic concepts and analytical tools, and (...)
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