Laurent De Muyter

Laurent De Muyter is an EU regulatory lawyer with more than 20 years of experience. His practice focuses on electronic communications, digital, data protection, foreign direct investment (FDI), and antitrust regulations. Laurent ensures clients' regulatory compliance and represents clients in investigations launched by the EU Commission or national regulators, as well as in appeals before courts.

In electronic communications, Laurent advised T-Mobile in the EU Commission investigation on its network sharing agreements in Czechia, which was launched in 2016 and successfully closed in 2022 with commitments. He also advised operators, equipment manufacturers, and regulators on liberalization, 5G security, spectrum, network roll-out, interconnection, access, roaming, net neutrality, universal services, numbering, and legal tapping.

Laurent's digital and data protection experience includes advising companies on new digital regulations, like the Data Act, AI Act, Digital Markets Act (DMA), and Digital Services Act (DSA), as well as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issues such as privacy policies and notices, legal basis, breaches, international transfers, portability, retention, and cybersecurity.

Laurent's FDI and antitrust experience covers anticompetitive practices and multijurisdictional FDI and merger filings at the EU and national levels across various industries, including automotive, chemicals, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, oil, telecoms, tobacco, and waste management. He also regularly advises clients on compliance relating to cooperation agreements, distribution, and technology licensing.

Laurent has been a member (assessor) of the decisional body of the Belgian Competition Authority since 2013 and a lecturer at the University of Liège where teaches courses on AI and GDPR. He is currently co-chair of the IBA Communications Law Committee and a member of IAPP and Amcham EU. Laurent was seconded in-house at the GSM Association in London in 2008.