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 20 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; European Court of Justice), 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, the European steel companies’ trade association, in relation to both its intervention before the European Commission in relation to the offer by BHP Billiton for Rio Tinto and then the proposed joint venture between those parties.  In the former the Commission issued a Statement of Objections and in the latter the Commission was going to issue a statement of objections.  In both cases, as a result of the parties’ view of the outcomes of the relevant competition authorities’ investigations, the proposals were abandoned.

EU Law and Government affairs

• We are privileged to have our government affairs practice lead by Dr. Günter Burghardt, 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

• We represent ZTE, one of the two main producers of ‘dongles’, which unusually is the subject of European Commission anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and countervailing duty investigations.

European Court Litigation

• Acting against the European Commission we applied for and obtained from the EU’s General Court an order that the EU institutions produce confidential documentary evidence allegedly supporting the Commission’s findings in an anti-dumping proceeding.  This is the first time the EU’s General Court has ordered such a measure - (Case T-249/06).

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