We provide counselling, litigation, investigation and strategic advice to clients in relation to EU Law and the EU's institutions and courts.

Our clients benefit from the skills of approximately 30 professionals, both lawyers and other professionals from disciplines relevant to our clients (accountancy; business research; and science) who have worked in national and international institutions (EU Commission; WTO; Russian Mission), in-house counsel positions and, of course, many years of private law practice.

Competition laws of the EU, Member States and internationally

• We acted for Eurofer in its intervention before the European Commission in relation to the offer by BHP Billiton for Rio Tinto. The Commission issued a Statement of Objections. BHP Billiton abandoned the transaction.

EU Law and Government affairs

• We are privileged to have our government affairs practice lead by Dr. Günter Burghart, who was Ambassador of the European Union in Washington DC, after having held a number of senior positions at the European Commission over the past 35 years.

International and Benelux Tax

• Our Brussels tax team has been leading the Pan-European structuring and organization of operations of a USD 500 million opportunistic fund with operations in the US.

Regulatory Laws

• Our EU Regulatory Team recently published a “Code of Conduct” for REACH Consortia, elaborated in conjunction with major corporations, including Unilever, Procter and Gamble and L’Oreal, to help companies ensure REACH consortia are acting in a manner that is fair, transparent, non-discriminatory and in compliance with EU antitrust rules.

Trade and Customs laws

• In litigation against the European Commission before the EU's Court of First Instance (Case T-249/06), we obtained the first ever measures of inquiry ordering the EU institutions to produce confidential documentary evidence allegedly supporting the findings in an anti-dumping proceeding.

Whilst the lingua franca of the office is English, our professionals are drawn from several countries and we can work in Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Spanish.