Thomas Janssens

Communications
Competition

Biography: Regulatory Communications

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 telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) sector. 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.

His recent TMT experience includes advising a mobile operator on various regulatory and antitrust issues; a music publishing company in relation to centralised licensing of online rights; and an internet service provider on its predatory pricing case before the European Commission and the European courts.

He is recognised in his fields of expertise (antitrust/competition and TMT) in a number of legal directories. 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 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, Dutch and French.

This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers published by Who's Who Legal.

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. Prior to joining the firm 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 TMT, energy and transport 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 a number of legal directories including Chambers (Global and European guides), Legal 500 and PLC's Which lawyer? 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 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, Dutch and French.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a leading international law firm with a network of 28 offices across Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East providing a full range of legal services worldwide. Members of the firm's 255-strong ACT group are based in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Tokyo, Vienna and Washington, DC.

This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers published by Who's Who Legal.