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Hendrik Viaene is an attorney in Brussels with McDermott, and he focuses his practice on competition law, regulated markets and regulatory law. He advises clients across a wide range of related issues including state aid, cartels, licensing agreements, merger filings, M&A negotiations, abuse of dominance cases, and distribution agreements.
McDermott s boosts US transactions team with six partner hire from DLA Piper and others
28 May 2021
New arrivals join in Atlanta, Dallas, New York, LA, Washington and Chicago
Los Angeles Shutterstock McDermott Will & Emery has hired six partners in cities across the US as it seeks to bolster its transactions practice group. The new hires include Brian Gordon in Atlanta, Marcus Helt in Dallas, Parker Lee in New York, Mal Serure in Los Angeles, David Solander in Washington DC and David Wolff in Chicago. The six partners add a range of deal-making expertise, from private equity and M&A to real estate and restructuring.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Foreign subsidies have had an unfair and distortive impact in the European Union. State-backed foreign companies have, according to the EU, benefited from an unfair advantage when acquiring EU targets or obtaining public procurement contracts. This, in the eyes of the EU, has come at the expense of fair competition. As things stand, however, financial contributions granted by non-EU governments to an individual company, industry or category (“foreign subsidies”) fly under the enforcement radar.
Foreign subsidies now under EU’s critical eye. New tools have been proposed to allow the European Commission (“EC”) to effectively address foreign subsidies that actually or potentially cause distortions and undermine a level playing field in the EU. The new tools would apply to all economic sectors and to a broad spectrum of situations and would sit alongside the EU State aid rules, which deal with distortions in the EU caused by Member State su