Bruno Dupré

Bruno Dupré

Bruno Dupré has been detached by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the European External Action Service (EEAS). In April 2023, he has been appointed Political Advisor for the Indian Ocean. He is in charge of strengthening the EU maritime presence and engagement in the region (Horn of Africa, Red Sea, Gulf,…

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Oliver Geiss

Oliver Geiss

Oliver Geiss is a partner in the Brussels office of Squire Patton Boggs.  His practice is focused on competition and foreign direct investment (FDI) laws in the European Union and Germany, and he advises clients on multi-jurisdictional merger control and FDI notifications of cross-border transactions worldwide. Oliver has also represented companies in some of the…

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Grith Skovgaard Ølykke

Dr. Grith Skovgaard Ølykke is a Commercial law consultant, Senior Director, at Law Firm Poul Schmith in Copenhagen. While co-authoring this blog post, she was a Senior Researcher at Department of Economics, Management and Leadership of the Belgian Royal Military Academy/Department of Applied Economics and the Brussels Centre for Competition Policy of Vrije Universiteit Brussels.…

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Cind Du Bois

Professor Dr. Cind Du Bois has a Master degree in Economics as well as in Political Sciences. In 2007 she obtained her PhD in Economics from the Free University of Brussels and started her academic career. Since 2009 she is affiliated to the Royal Military Academy (RMA) where she currently heads the Department of Economics,…

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Gregory Kegels

Gregory Kegels is a doctoral researcher (Drs) at the department of Applied Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, where he works on the joint VUB-RMA BEPIDS project (Belgian Economic Potential in the Industry of Defence and Security). He also works at the Department of Economics Management and Leadership at the Belgian Royal Military Academy as a military reservist,…

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Caroline Buts

Caroline Buts is professor and vice-dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where she teaches European Integration and Competition Policy. She obtained her PhD in 2012 on the Economics of State aid which, next to defence and peace economics, is still one of her main areas…

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Maja Kristiansson Gran

Maja Kristiansson Gran

Maja Kristiansson-Gran is an associate at Advokatfirman Lindahl, working in the practice group for corporate finance with a specialization in the Swedish Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) act.

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Alexander Tham

Alexander Tham

Alexander Tham is an attorney and partner at Advokatfirman Lindahl. He specializes in Private M&A as well as chairs the firm’s practice group for IT/Tech.

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Martyna Lechowska

Martyna Lechowska is an associate within the Funds and Investments group, which regularly represents founders, sponsors and management teams when setting up alternative investment funds, and institutional investors when investing in fund structures globally, and advises funds in their day-to-day operations.

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Gustav Eiroff

Gustav Eiroff is an associate within the FDI and the M&A and Private Equity group, which regularly represent private equity clients on cross-border and domestic M&A transactions, advise clients on general corporate matters and assist with drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.

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Louise Sörelind

Louise Sörelind

Louise Sörelind is a Counsel specialized in FDI, M&A and Private Equity. Louise has substantial experience from cross-border and domestic M&A transactions, including as project leader for private equity sponsored transactions, capital raisings, asset transfers, joint ventures and corporate restructurings.

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Dr. iur. Magnus Schmauch

Dr. iur. Magnus Schmauch

Magnus is Senior Counsel and head of FDI and Regulatory at Wigge. He has extensive EU regulatory experience including the European Court of Justice, and the EFTA Court. He has written several books on financial regulation and competition law, and a forthcoming commentary of the Swedish FDI Screening Act, due later this winter. He regularly…

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Johannes Tropper

Johannes Tropper

Johannes is a Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law of the University of Vienna. He studied law and political science and holds a PhD in international law. He previously worked as a project research assistant for a project on rule of law and investment law, a predoctoral researcher…

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Dirk De Bièvre

Dirk De Bièvre

Dirk De Bièvre is professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp where he teaches international politics, research design and international political economy. He conducts and co-supervises research on international institutions, economic policy making, and the political economy of external relations of the European Union.

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Antonio Calcara

Antonio Calcara

Prof. Antonio Calcara is the Head of the Geopolitics and Technology programme at the Center for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC project CODE – Competition in the Digital Era: Geopolitics and Technology in the XXI Century.

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Isha Das

Isha Das

Isha Das is a PhD Candidate at the University of Passau. She is a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Lehrtstuhl of Professor Dr. Christoph Herrmann (LL.M) at the Lehrstuhl für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht, Europarecht, Europäisches und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht and her PhD is also funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Prior to her time in Passau,…

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Beau Maes

Beau Maes

Beau Maes is an associate in Baker McKenzie’s EU competition and regulatory affairs practice group in Brussels. Beau has a broad knowledge of EU competition law, with a focus on merger control, foreign investment review, lawful cooperation agreements, abuse of dominance compliance, vertical advisory and overall compliance workstreams within the business. In addition, Beau advises…

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Pavlo Prokhorov

Pavlo Prokhorov

Pavlo Prokhorov is an associate in Baker McKenzie’s EU competition and regulatory affairs practice group in Brussels. Pavlo has an extensive knowledge of EU competition law, with a focus on merger control (notifications and third-party complaints), foreign investment review, FSR and abuse of dominance cases. Pavlo also advises clients on Ukrainian competition law. His sector…

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Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is a partner in Baker McKenzie Brussels’ European & Competition Law Practice. He is an English qualified solicitor and has been practicing in Brussels and the UK for almost 15 years. Paul regularly represents clients on competition matters before the European Commission and has provided competition law advice with respect to over 100…

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Olga Hrynkiv

Olga Hrynkiv

Dr. Olga Hrynkiv is an international law scholar with prior experience in legal practice. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society and a fellow at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center. In recent years, she has published contributions examining various aspects of export controls, economic…

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Philipp Gnatzy

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Philipp Gnatzy is a partner in Kirkland’s Antitrust & Competition Team, spanning the offices in London and Brussel. With a practice that encompasses merger control, antitrust and foreign investment control for large international transactions, he has been in touch with almost all active FDI regimes in addition to his particular focus on EU, UK, German,…

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