Overview
The Gibson Dunn Brussels office is the hub of our competition law practice in Europe. We represent global and European clients on all aspects of European Union and EU national competition law, and have been at the center of numerous landmark antitrust decisions in Europe.
We emphasize a solution-oriented approach providing clients with business savvy advice on which they can act. We regularly represent multinational clients in complex, high-profile matters before the European Commission and national competition authorities. Our experienced Brussels-based lawyers, qualified in many jurisdictions across the European Union (Ireland, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, and Greece, among others) are internationally recognized and have a proven record of handling even the most difficult merger filings and foreign direct investment investigations, behavioral and cartel investigations, new regulatory tools such as the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, as well as EU and private litigation.
We have experience and industry knowledge across a wide range of sectors ranging from manufacturing industries to cutting-edge technologies with particularly deep expertise in high-tech sectors, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, financial services, and chemicals.
Our experience includes complex competition and regulatory policy issues including merger control, foreign direct investment rules and the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, cartel and abuse of dominance investigations and their national equivalents, cooperative and vertical arrangements, and State aids. We frequently advise on the implementation of antitrust compliance programs and the conduct of antitrust audits and training. We have considerable experience in guiding parties and their trade associations through antitrust sector inquiries.
In addition to competition advocacy before the European Commission and national competition authorities, we also have significant experience in handling litigation before the EU courts and coordinating private litigation across EU Member States.