Alexandre G. Verheyden

Partner

Alexandre Verheyden's practice focuses on competition/antitrust law, representing major corporations before the European Commission, European courts, and national authorities. He also has significant experience in transatlantic mergers.

Alexandre's experience involves abuse of dominant position/monopoly offense, cartel, merger, and state aid cases. He represented DoubleClick in its merger with Google and BT in its various mergers since 1995 (including MCI, AT&T, Infonet, and Radianz). He obtained a favorable judgment in a €500 million damage claim for abuse of dominant position against Belgacom Mobile and the largest fine ever imposed on a dominant enterprise by the Competition Council. He represented Dole in the banana cartel case and Bouygues Telecom in several state aid cases against the French government. He also represents Toyota in all its competition law-related European distribution matters.

Alexandre is vice chair of the Communications Committee of the International Bar Association. He received an award from the Belgian American Educational Foundation and is a winner of the 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards for the article "EU Court of Justice Provides Guidance on Abusive Margin Squeezes" written in collaboration with Serge Clerckx. He also is a regular speaker at conferences.