Stibbe's competition practice is boosted by its leading corporate practices in Amsterdam and Brussels and by its alliance with Herbert Smith and Gleiss Lutz.The team has had some changes....
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Stibbe's competition practice is boosted by its leading corporate practices in Amsterdam and Brussels and by its alliance with Herbert Smith and Gleiss Lutz.
The team has had some changes. In September 2010, leading lawyer Marc van der Woude left the firm to become one of the 27 judges at the EU general court, serving as both a loss to the firm as well as a mark of achievement. Peter Wytinck steps into his shoes.
Wytinck gets solid feedback from clients, with his ability to show "more knowledge than other firms" in certain areas. "He would make sure the solutions he came up with were workable in the context of the case, and that is what we appreciated. He takes time to study the file and understand the facts," says a client.
"The only thing," says one client, "is that unlike other law firms Stibbe did not have that much of an international network".
Stibbe acted in a number of the market's notable transactions. It counselled Tessenderlo Chemie in the first hybrid settlement to secure a 60% reduction in fines following the animal feeds phosphates cartel investigation. It also acted in the first private damages claim brought by the EU Commission against an elevator manufacturers' cartel. The firm was advising elevator manufacturer Schindler in the Belgian courts.
The firm was advising Charles River Development in a case against alleged abuse of dominance by Bloomberg. The firm was also engaged by France Telecom to advise on state aid matters.
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