David Wouters
Associate
David Wouters is part of our Competition/EU Law & Foreign Investment team.
His work covers all aspects of EU and Belgian competition law with a focus on merger control, State aid and antitrust compliance programmes and investigations. He advises and represents clients before the Belgian Competition Authority and the European Commission, as well as before national courts and European courts.
The clients David serves include companies and trade associations active in a variety of sectors, in particular in the retail, insurance, sports, chemical, aviation, energy, and the life sciences and health care sector.
David holds a Master’s degree from the KU Leuven (2019) where he graduated magna cum laude and completed an LL.M. in Competition Law and Economics from the Brussels School of Competition. His thesis on “Sustainability Agreements under Article 101 TFEU” was published in the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (2021, Vol. 12, No. 3).
Prior to joining Liedekerke, David worked as a trainee at the European Commission (DG COMP) and at a major law firm in Brussels.
He joined Liedekerke in 2021.
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Studies
Brussels School of Competition (LL.M. in Competition Law and Economics) 2021
Catholic University of Leuven (Master’s degree - Magna Cum Laude) 2019
Publications/Speaking Engagements
S. RAES, V. MUSSCHE and D. WOUTERS, Lex Mundi Global Merger Notification Guide: Belgian Chapter, 22 September 2023.
D. WOUTERS, “Sustainability Agreements vs Greenwashing under Article 101 TFEU”, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, 03.06.2021.
D. WOUTERS, “Which Sustainability Agreements Are Not Caught by Article 101 (1) TFEU?” Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2021, Oxford University Press, 2021, Volume 12, Issue 3.
Co-author M. VAN DER WOUDE, C. JONES (eds.), EU Competition Law Handbook, 31st edition, Sweet and Maxwell, 2020.
H. VIAENE, D. WOUTERS and K. VAN DER PUTTEN, Merger control 2020 ǀ Belgium Chapter, Global Legal Insights (GLI) 2020.
H. VIAENE, K. VAN DER PUTTEN and D. WOUTERS, Lexisnexis, Merger control, Belgium Chapter, 2020.
D. WOUTERS, “Beginsel van economische continuïteit van toepassing op privaatrechtelijke handhaving EU-mededingingsrecht”, S.E.W.: Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht, 2019 p.521-524.
D. WOUTERS, Noot bij Hof van Justitie 14 maart 2019, Skanska, C-724/17, Rechtskundig Weekblad, jaargang 83, nummer 25, p. 998.
Memberships & Admissions
Member of Brussels Bar
Languages
- Dutch
- French
- English