Max is a senior associate in the Antitrust, Competition and Trade team of our firm’s Amsterdam office. He specialises in competition law, administrative law, European law and regulated markets and advises clients across a range of sectors, including media, energy, telecommunications, consumer goods and finance.
He has acted on high-profile litigious matters before the Dutch and European courts. Max also has experience with large multi-jurisdictional merger control and foreign investment control filings across Europe and the rest of the world.
Max is fluent in Dutch and English and also speaks Afrikaans and Spanish.
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- Advising WP/AP Telecom Holdings IV B.V., an entity jointly controlled by funds advised by Apax Partners and Warburg Pincus, on the acquisition of T-Mobile Netherlands for an enterprise value of 5.1 billion euros.
- Advising Talpa Holding on the attempted merger between Talpa Network and RTL Nederland, combining their broadcasting and affiliated media activities in the Netherlands.
- Advising funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management on the acquisition of High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTCE) from Ramphastos Real Estate Investments.
- Defending ABB in private litigation arising from the European Commission’s Power Cables and Gas Insulated Switchgear cartel decisions.
- Defending a leading FMCG company in a cartel probe of the Dutch competition authority ACM. The enforcer issued more than 82 million euros in fines for allegedly exchanging price information with competitors.
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University education
- University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, LLM in EU competition law.
- University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, BA in European studies.
- University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, LLB in Law.
- Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
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