CMS

Partner

Dirk specialises in EU and Belgian competition law and telecommunications law. With more than twenty years of experience in these areas, his expertise ranges from advising major EU public operators on electronic communications regulation, to assisting with litigation on inter-operator conflicts, regulatory complaints, and competition and merger control filings and litigation. He counsels and assists undertakings active in all industries in respect of the implication on their business activities of the Belgian and EU competition rules.

Prior to joining CMS in 2017, Dirk was a partner at Olswang after having started his professional career at Coudert Brothers and as a teaching assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges.

English, Dutch, French

1994 - Member of the Brussels Bar 1990 - College of Europe, Bruges (Diploma of Advanced European Legal Studies) 1989 - University of Ghent (Master in Law)