Van Bael & Bellis

Congratulations to our managing partner Andreas Reindl on his appointment as a Board Member of American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) 👏 This appointment provides Andreas with a unique opportunity to put his experience gained through a long history of representing US business interests in Europe to good use and to continue to support AmCham EU’s mission in his new role.   #EUUSrelationship #strongertogether #AmChamEU

Today, the European Commission publishes the third of six Regulations implementing the Regulation on Health Technology Assessment (#HTA) Read more below: https://lnkd.in/dPkM43c4 Michael Clancy | Peter L'Ecluse | Catherine Longeval | Koen T'Syen #lifesciences #healthtech

A reminder that caring for our mental wellbeing is essential for both our personal and professional lives 💪  Our team recently gathered in the Brussels HQ cafeteria for snacks and bubbles in honour of World Mental Health Day 2024. The evening was a meaningful opportunity to connect and recognise the importance of mental health awareness.   Let’s continue to support and look out for one another – both in the office and outside it 🤗   #WorldMentalHealthDay #WellbeingAtWork #AfterWorkConnections

Axel Desmedt became the new President of the Belgian Competition Authority on 1 March 2024. He recently gave public indications regarding the direction of travel of the BCA under his stewardship (Belgian Association for Studying Competition Law, Universitaire Stichting/Fondation universitaire, on 11 October 2024 and Informa’s Digital Challenges in Competition Law on 17 October 2024). Read about the points mentioned and more, from our #BelgianAntiTrust team here ▶ https://lnkd.in/db4y3Xcw Jean-Francois Bellis | Peter L'Ecluse | Valérie Lefever | Koen T'Syen | Kris Van Hove

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has today upheld the 2022 General Court (GC) judgment annulling for the most part the European Commission’s 2009 finding of abusive conduct by Intel Corporation in relation to x86 CPU microprocessors and annulling in its entirety the fine of €1.06 billion imposed upon Intel. In doing so, the CJEU dismissed the Commission’s appeal of the 2022 GC judgment and rejected all arguments it put forward.   A VBB team led by Jean-Francois Bellis and Kris Van Hove, assisted by Steve Ross, represented ACT as an intervener in support of Intel.   Congratulations to the Intel and ACT teams on the successful outcome of the case 👏     https://lnkd.in/dxhwvnAc #competitionlaw #abuseofdominance #loyaltyrebates

🎉Another successful VBB Transactions Tournament at our Brussels HQ yesterday! 🎉 A round of applause to all students for your energy, enthusiasm, and impressive transactional skills... all of which made our second edition of the tournament a huge success 👏 Huge congratulation to the winning teams, as well as to all other participants. Each of you showed remarkable talent and dedication while tackling a real-life M&A process! Special thanks to ELSA Belgium for partnering with us on this fantastic event. We hope everyone gained valuable insights and had a great time networking with the VBB lawyers. Looking forward to see you hit the next milestone in your legal journeys! #VBBTT #LawStudents #MergersAndAcquisitions #LegalSkills #FutureLegalLeaders

The Official Journal of the European Union has published the second of six Implementing Regulations of the Regulation on #HealthTechnology Assessment. Read more below: https://lnkd.in/g6yWvAuY Michael Clancy | Peter L'Ecluse | Catherine Longeval | Koen T'Syen #LifeSciences

A big thank you to NOMIKI BIBLIOTHIKI for hosting its 8th International Competition Law & Policy Conference in Athens last week 🙏 Competition co-head Porter Elliott thoroughly enjoyed participating in the merger control panel alongside Cleomenis Yannikas, Marina Androulakakis and Maria Kallidopoulou, moderated expertly by Anna Gatziou. Porter spoke on practical merger control considerations in light of recent EU trends and developments. ✉ For a copy of his slide deck, please email brussels@vbb.com #competitionlaw #EUmergercontrol #M&A #belowthresholddeals

Our latest #CompetitionLaw newsletter is available now! Find it below for the latest on ✅Merger Control ✅Abuse of Dominance ✅Vertical agreements and much more! https://lnkd.in/dBHd-E6V #lawnewsletter

Our latest newsletter on #BelgianLaw is available now! Find it below for the latest on ✅Civil Law ✅Commercial Law ✅Consumer Law and much more! https://lnkd.in/dBcKTJX4 #corporatelaw #lawnewsletter