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Jones Day boasts experience across IT, telecoms, and data protection, representing clients in high-end domestic, EU, and international matters with the team operating comfortably across competition, regulatory, compliance, and commercial matters. Alexandre Verheyden, Laurent De Muyter, and Jörg Hladjk jointly steer the team and are key contacts for high-profile competition and regulatory matters. Yvan Desmedt advises a range of fixed and mobile telecommunications operators in proceedings before competition authorities, regulators, and courts.
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  • ‘Unique cross-European regulatory capabilities; very quick to respond; the firm is really excellent at speedily grasping highly technical areas of regulation. ’

  • ‘Alexandre Verhayden is very responsive, and quickly understands our main legal issues, which can involve complex regulatory matters.'

  • ‘Excellent expertise on all matters relating to telecommunication and EU regulatory and public law. Very strategic - great strength to combine an intimate understanding of the institutions and legal practice in Brussels with the highest level of legal proficiency. ’

  • ‘Alexandre Verheyden is an outstanding practitioner. Able to provide concrete practical solutions to complex strategic challenges. Philipp Werner - longstanding excellence in EU legal matters.’

  • ‘Excellent team with high standards of quality.’

  • ‘Laurent de Muyter deserves praise for his commitment and quality of his work.’

Key clients

  • bpost
  • BT
  • Colt
  • ComReg (Irish Commission for Communications Regulation)
  • Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile
  • ECTA (European Competitive Telecommunications Association)
  • Euroclear
  • SAP
  • Telenet / Liberty Global
  • Ubisoft
  • Verint Systems
  • Imperva

Work highlights

Represented BT, Colt, and another confidential operator in damage claims against Proximus, the Belgian incumbent operator, and secured a Brussels Enterprise Court judgment favourable to the clients in June 2024, concluding that Proximus had abused its dominant position.
Advised IBS Capital Management on a comprehensive and complex data protection and cybersecurity assessment of the group company data processing activities regarding the sale of IBS through a controlled auction sale.
Advised Euroclear on complex Fintech-related matters, including, among others, the acquisition of Banco Inversis.

Practice head

Alexandre Verheyden; Laurent De Muyter; Jörg Hladky

Other key lawyers

Yvan Desmedt