Carmen is Partner in the Commercial & Competition Team at ALTIUS. She advises a wide range of domestic and multinational clients on all aspects of Belgian and EU competition law. She also assists various multinational clients in the setting-up of compliance programs and trainings. In merger control cases, Carmen assists clients in obtaining merger control clearance from the Belgian Competition Authorities and the European Commission and in the coordination of merger filings in numerous other countries.

Carmen has also developed a solid experience in providing advice on a broad range of commercial issues and more specifically in contract law. She advises clients on the most complex contractual matters and the drafting of all types of commercial agreement, such as sale, distribution, agency, franchising, joint venture, commercial cooperation, R&D, joint production agreements and technology transfer agreements.

Carmen is Vice-president of the Association pour l’Etude du Droit de la Concurrence (AEDC), a Board member of the Ligue International du Droit de la Concurrence (LIDC) and a Member of the legal committee of the Belgian Franchising Federation (BFF). Carmen was appointed Maître de Conférences at the University of Liège and lectures on Belgian Competition law in the LL.M. program in European Competition and IP law. She has written various publications on competition law and regularly speaks on Belgian Competition and Commercial law.

She holds degrees from the University of Leuven (Lic. Jur., magna cum laude 1995), University of Bristol, UK (LL.M. in European Law, 1996), the University of Bayreuth, Germany (Erasmus Exchange Programme, 1994) and has been admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1996.