Denis Waelbroeck

Ashurst

Professor Denis Waelbroeck is a partner in the Ashurst EMEA Antitrust, Regulation and Foreign Investment practice. He has specialised in competition, state aid, trade and regulatory law and EU law generally.

He has handled a great number of procedures for a wide range of corporate and institutional clients, and has vast litigation experience both before the EU Courts as well as before national courts of several European Member States or before arbitrations courts. Denis has represented major corporates in a great number of high level cases in competition law matters. He also represented numerous states, as well as beneficiaries and complainants before the European Commission and European Court of Justice in State aid matters.

He is and has been for several decades a professor of Competition Law at the College of Europe in Bruges and of Competition Law at the Free University Brussels (ULB). He has also written several books and more than hundred articles in legal reviews on EU and competition law related matters.

Practice Area

Panel

Contributing Author

Membership

Member of the Brussels Bar (French speaking)
CCBE delegation to the ECJ
GLLC Board of Directors
Professor of EU competition law both at the University libre de Bruxelles (the Brussels Free University) and at the College of Europe in Bruges

Qualifications

Master in European Law (1981)
Master in Law (1979)

Education

Université libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels) (1979, 1981)

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CHECKLISTS

Vertical agreements: IP and competition law checklist for licensing, restrictions, ownership, enforcement and risk allocation (including vertical and technology transfer block exemptions)

This Checklist This Checklist examines the intellectual property elements of vertical agreements and outlines the principal competition law issues. It addresses: the parties and configuration of vertical arrangements identification of the IP licence scope limits on use of the IP IP ownership third-party IP protection of the licensor’s IP warranties and indemnities On 10 May 2022, the European Commission adopted the EU Vertical Restraints Block Exemption, Regulation (EU) 2022/720 (EU VBER), along with the Vertical Guidelines. The EU VBER came into force on 1 June 2022 and will expire on 31 May 2034. See Practice Note: The Vertical Block Exemption Regulation 2022/720. On 9 May 2022, the UK government laid before Parliament the Competition Act 1998 (Vertical Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022 (UK VABEO), SI 2022/516. The UK VABEO replaced the UK Retained VBER on 1 June 2022 and will expire on 1 June 2028. See Practice Note: The Competition Act 1998 (Vertical Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022. This Checklist reflects the requirements of the EU VBER and the UK VABEO. For more information, see Practice Note: Applying block exemptions to IP agreements...

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