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We are a top-ranked independent law firm providing specialized competition & EU and corporate & business law advice.
Distribution Law Center
contrast drives the Distribution Law Center, a pan-European knowledge platform dedicated to distribution law. Specialised law firms from 27 jurisdictions offer unique information tools and track significant developments.
'contrast‘s heavyweight team has featured in most of the cartel investigations brought by the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA), as well as the majority of interim measures cases. In addition, it also features prominently in abuse of dominance matters and merger reviews. Frank Wijckmans, Filip Tuytschaever and Herlinde Burez jointly lead the highly regarded group. The team also includes Emmelie Wijckmans, Milena Varga and Sébastien Engelen, who were promoted to counsel in 2020. Stefanie Colaers made senior associate.'
The Legal 500 EMEA 2021
'contrast‘s practice houses ‘experts in privacy and data protection that work closely together and can handle any data privacy related tasks quickly and in a cost-efficient manner‘. Counsel Anouk Focquet leads the team; she garners praise for her ‘very strong knowledge of European privacy and data protection legislation, and has the great ability to make complex legal issues in that area comprehensible for the client together with a commercial mindset and a solution-finding attitude‘.'
The Legal 500 EMEA 2021
'We are used to working with Filip Tuytschaever and Stefanie Colaers. They both have a strong knowledge of our business and of course of the competition law domain. They are always on standby for their clients and easy to reach. They both are very responsive, hands-on and very pragmatic.'
The Legal 500 EMEA 2021
'One client simply says: "For us, the firm has been amazing."'
