Tristan Verminck

Tristan Verminck has more than 10 years of experience advising clients on European, Belgian, and Dutch competition and regulatory matters across a broad range of sectors. He is recognized in The Legal 500 as a key lawyer in EU regulatory matters.

His practice covers all aspects of merger control, cartel investigations, anticompetitive agreements, and abuse of dominance, with significant experience in consumer goods, chemicals, pharma, energy, and the regulated industries of telecommunications, media, technology (TMT).

Tristan has played a key role in several high-profile global transactions and investigations. He was part of the team advising on the €12.5 billion sale of Procter & Gamble's beauty business to Coty and on the €7.5 billion sale of Bombardier's rail business to Alstom. He has extensive experience handling complex cross-border merger control and investment screening proceedings at both EU and national levels, representing notifying parties as well as third-party interveners. He is also involved in major cartel investigations before the European Commission and the Belgian Competition Authority.

In addition to transactional work, Tristan advises clients on commercial agreements, the design and rollout of distribution networks, and regularly assists clients with antitrust compliance programs.

He worked in Jones Day’s Washington, D.C. Office from 2018 to 2019. Prior to joining the Firm, he worked at a Washington, D.C.-based economic consultancy providing expert testimony in antitrust and intellectual property disputes.

Tristan maintains an active pro bono practice and has participated in Jones Day’s Border Project, providing legal support to asylum seekers at the U.S.–Mexico border.