Ms Annemieke van der Beek > Kennedy Van der Laan > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

Kennedy Van der Laan
MOLENWERF 16
1014 BG
P.O. Box 58188, 1040HD
Netherlands

Work Department

EU and Competition Law Group

Position

Partner

Career

Annemieke van der Beek leads the section EU & Competition law. Annemieke offers strategic advice on the full range of EU and Dutch competition law issues, including compliance, complex cooperation agreements and joint ventures, cartels, distribution, and merger control. She advises clients with dominant market positions about the dynamics between competition law and their commercial policy. She is especially experienced in the financial, health care/ life sciences and media and technology sectors.

She organizes tailored compliance trainings for clients to prevent risks concerning competition law and assists clients in case of dawn raids and regulatory investigations.

Due to her vast experience, pragmatic approach and a longstanding good relationship with regulators she often delivers favorable results for clients from supervisory authorities such as the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), the Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate (NZa), and the European Commission.

Annemieke also has ample experience in representing clients in proceedings against the supervisors (ACM, NZa and the European Commission), as well as in the Dutch courts and the European judicial bodies.

Annemiek is member of the Advisory Committee on Competition law of The Netherlands Bar and is an associate of the Dutch Magazine for European law.

Languages

Dutch, English

Memberships

Member of the competition law council at the Dutch Bar Association
Member of Association of Competition Law
Member of Association of European Law
Member of Association for Compliance in Healthcare
Member of Association of Public Procurement Law
Member of International Bar Association
Member of American Bar Association

Education

Dutch civil law, University of Leiden, 1984
International law, University of Leiden, 1984
Postgraduate degree (DEA) in European law, Université de Paris I, 1985

Lawyer Rankings

Netherlands > EU and competition

(Hall of Fame)

Annemieke van der BeekKennedy Van der Laan

Advising on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, and handling abuse of dominance allegations in major litigations are all areas of experience for the EU and competition practice at Kennedy Van der Laan. It is equipped to handle matters in both domestic and international contexts. Annemieke van der Beek specialises in payment services work in particular, counsel Martijn van Bemmel has experience advising on matters across the financial, banking, retail, transport and IT sectors, and Martine de Koning has expertise handling commerce and trade work; the three oversee the team.