Alexandre G. Verheyden
Partner
Brussels
Tel: +32.2.645.15.09
Fax: +32.2.645.14.45
Email:
averheyden@jonesday.com
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Alexandre Verheyden's practice focuses on competition/antitrust law, representing major corporations before the European Commission, European courts, and national authorities. Alexandre 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 and received an award from the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He is a regular speaker at conferences.
Honors and Distinctions
Listed in Chambers Europe as a leading practitioner in technology, media, and telecom (Band 1) and in competition/European law; listed by Chambers Global as a key practitioner in the field of competition/European law; listed in Who's Who Legal for regulatory communications
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Brussels and New York
Education
The University of Chicago (LL.M. 1992); University of Louvain (Licence en Droit magna cum laude 1990)
Languages
Dutch, English, French