Biography: Competition

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), energy, consumer products and healthcare 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, PLC Which lawyer and The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists.

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 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 (IBA) 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 in English, Dutch and French.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice comprises over 50 partners and 250 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.

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.

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.

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. He is also an officer in the antitrust committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). Thomas speaks English, Dutch and French.