Maarten Groot

• Merger control: advice and coordinating national and multinational merger filings; advice on information exchange in due diligence, clean teams etc. 
• Antitrust: advice on the assessment of commercial agreements, including cooperation agreements and joint ventures, under competition law; advice on the cartel prohibition and abuse of dominance.
• Investigations: advising clients on national and multinational internal investigations on competition matters. 
• Dawn raids: advising clients on unannounced inspections by competition authorities.

Selected key experience

• Notification of the acquisition of a logistic supply chain company, by a large Benelux private equity investor to the Dutch and German competition authority and obtaining unconditional clearance
• Notification of the acquisition by one of the largest producers of infant formula and milk powder globally of a Dutch goat cheese producer with extensive buyer power to the Dutch competition authority and obtaining unconditional clearance.
• Notification of the acquisition by a large customer management process outsourcing service provider producers of a division of one of the largest online travel agencies globally to the UK and Dutch competition authority and obtaining unconditional clearance. 

• Antitrust Matters – August 2023 – Competition and Sustainability, 31 July 2023
• Het kartelverbod en duurzaamheid: een beknopt vergelijkend overzicht, Markt & Mededinging, August 2023
• EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation – Bijkomende verplichtingen voor bedrijven bij fusies, overnames en openbare aanbestedingen, Bedrijfsjuridische berichten, June 2023
• De Digital Markets Act, Bedrijfsjuridische berichten, June 2022
• ACM boetes bestendigen strenge toepassing van het kartelverbod, Bedrijfsjuridische berichten, November 2021
• HvJ-zaak C-132/19P (Canal+): over toezeggingsbesluiten en het evenredigheidsbeginsel, Markt & Mededinging, June 2021
• De zaak sigarettenfabrikanten: eerste ACM kartelboete voor indirecte informatie-uitwisseling, Bedrijfsjuridische berichten, February 2021