Biography • Competition

Thomas Janssens is a partner in Freshfields' antitrust, competition and trade group, based in the Brussels office. He has been a partner since May 2005.

Thomas specialises in EU and Belgian competition law with particular expertise in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), energy, consumer products and health-care sectors. He represents clients on the full range of antitrust matters including merger control, cartel investigations and abuse of dominance, with an emphasis on practice before the European Commission and national competition authorities in Europe and beyond. Thomas also represents clients before the European and national courts.

He is recognised in his fields of expertise in a number of legal directories including Chambers (global and European guides), Legal 500, PLC Which lawyer? and The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers.

Thomas was educated at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Columbia Law School (USA), and was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1995. He has spoken and published on a variety of EU competition law topics and is co-consulting editor of Global Competition Review's Getting the Deal Through: Dominance, a guide to the regulation of dominant firm conduct in 39 jurisdictions worldwide, now in its ninth edition for 2013. He is also an officer in the antitrust committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is trilingual in English, Dutch and French.

Freshfields' antitrust competition and trade practice comprises more than 50 partners and 260 specialists based in Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the UK and the US. Our coverage of Asia, Europe and the US enables us to advise our clients in competition cases involving many jurisdictions around the world.

Biography • Regulatory Communications

Thomas is a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's antitrust, competition and trade group, based in the Brussels office. He specialises in EU and Belgian competition law with particular experience in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) sector, where he advises a variety of media, telecoms, entertainment and technology clients.

Thomas's practice covers the full range of antitrust/competition matters spanning merger control, cartel investigations and abuse of dominance, with an emphasis on practice before the European Commission and national competition authorities. Thomas also regularly represents clients before the European Court of Justice and national courts.

Thomas is an officer on the IBA's antitrust committee. He has spoken and published on a variety of EU competition law topics and is co-consulting editor of Getting the Deal Through: Dominance, a guide to the regulation of dominant firm conduct in 39 jurisdictions worldwide. Thomas was educated at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Columbia Law School (USA). He is member of the firm's community and pro bono committee and is trilingual in English, Dutch and French.