Mr Martijn van de Hel > Maverick Advocaten N.V. > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

Competition law boutique Maverick Advocaten N.V. is well-known for handling merger and administrative proceedings before the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets as well as the Dutch Healthcare Authority. Praised for his ‘outstanding‘ knowledge, practice co-head Diederik Schrijvershof acts for pharma companies and healthcare providers in court proceedings against prohibition decisions, in addition to competition disputes involving tariffs, while co-head Martijn van de Hel regularly acts in approval proceedings concerning joint ventures and takeovers.

Maverick Advocaten N.V.‘s EU and competition team is regarded as ‘extremely hands-on’ and ‘thinks in possibilities rather than constraints’. The ‘excellent team members’ are led by Martijn van de Hel who is ‘not afraid to take a stand’, regulatory litigation specialist Diederik Schrijvershof who has experience assisting clients in sectors including agriculture, healthcare and life sciences, and the ‘commercially savvy’ Cyriel Ruers who joined from Allen & Overy LLP in January 2023. Competition law, market regulation and consumer protection matters are all aspects of the workload of the team. It is adept at representing clients at the ACM in various cases; its caseload includes handling dawn raids, mergers and acquisitions and consumer law strategy development.