Biography: Competition

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Thomas Janssens is a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) group, based in the Brussels office. He has been a partner since May 2005.

Thomas specialises in EU and Belgian competition law with particular expertise in the energy, telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), consumer products and health-care sectors. He represents clients on the full range of antitrust matters including merger control, cartel investigations and abuse of dominance, 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.

He is recognised in his fields of expertise in all the leading legal directories including Chambers (Global and European guides), PLC Which lawyer? and Legal 500. He was also recently nominated as one of the world's leading young competition lawyers in Global Competition Review's '40 under Forty' survey.

Thomas was educated at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Columbia Law School (USA), 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 Getting the Deal Through: Dominance, a guide to the regulation of dominant firm conduct in 39 jurisdictions worldwide. He is also an active member of the International Bar Association, where he acts as the antitrust committee's liaison officer to the IBA's European forum. Thomas is a member of the firm-wide Community and pro bono committee. He is trilingual, speaking English, Dutch and French.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice comprises over 50 partners and 260 members in total. Our ACT specialists are based in Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the UK and the USA. Our coverage of Asia, Europe and the US enables us to advise our clients in competition cases involving many jurisdictions around the world.