Thomas Janssens is a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s antitrust, competition and trade group, based in the Brussels office. 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 and abuse of dominance investigations, before the European Commission and national competition authorities. Thomas also regularly represents clients before the European Court of Justice and national courts. In the TMT sector, he advises a variety of media, telecoms, entertainment and technology companies. He is recognised in his fields of expertise (antitrust/competition and TMT) in a number of legal directories including Chambers (Global and European guides), Legal 500, PLC Which lawyer and the International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers. Thomas was educated at the University of Leuven and Columbia Law School, 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 Global Competition Review’s Getting the Deal Through: Dominance, a guide to the regulation of dominant firm conduct in 35 jurisdictions worldwide, now in its seventh edition for 2011. He is also an active member of the International Bar Association where he acts as the Antitrust Committee's liaison to the IBA's European Forum.