Representative matters

1. Assisting the main player in the Belgian industrial laundry sector with its public procurement strategy, both during the procurement phase and the execution phase, as well as representing the interests of the client in suspension and annulment proceedings relating to the award of public contracts before the Belgian civil courts and the Belgian Council of State
2. Advising a Directorate-General of the European Commission in relation to EU public procurement under a long-term framework contract for legal advice
3. Guiding an American multinational through the public procurement regulatory framework in Belgium
4. Advising a consortium of private parties in the infrastructure sector in the context of the public-private partnership project relating to ring road infrastructure works at the intersection of the R0 and A201 roads near Brussels Airport
5. Advising a consortium of private parties in the energy sector in the public-private partnership project relating to the first-of-a-kind gas powered CRM electricity power plant project in Belgium
6. Advising a consortium of private parties in the infrastructure sector in the public-private partnership project for the tram line in Liège
7. Advising an American multinational in rebutting a formal notice of default received from the Flemish Region for an alleged infringement of a Belgian Regional Decree
8. Providing advice regarding compliance with EU Regulations, in particular the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, and the Belgian regulatory framework
9. Acting for a client based in an EU Member State before the General Court of the European Union in challenging the legality of EU legislation, in particular by submitting an application for interim measures (suspension) and two applications for annulment before the General Court, as well as advising the client throughout these legal proceedings
10. Assisting a client based in an EU Member State in a preliminary ruling proceeding before the Court of Justice of the European Union, including drafting the underlying preliminary questions and responding to the procedural documents of the opposing party. The objective was to obtain a ruling from the Court of Justice as to whether a competitor of the client was to be classified as a public law body serving needs in the general interest that are not of an industrial or commercial nature and thus as a contracting authority subject to the EU public procurement rules

Professional

1. Admitted to the Dutch Bar Association at the Brussels Bar, 2015

Academic

1. Master of Laws, University of Ghent, 2015, magna cum laude
2. Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Erasmus+ Program, 2014, magna cum laude

Publications

1. EU Member States vote in favour of the first-ever IPI measures (10 June 2025): author
2. EU Commission’s first IPI investigation finds unfair treatment for EU medical device makers in China’s procurement market (22 February 2025): author
3. The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, Concurrences, 1^st edition (2024): chapter author (Chapter IV – The Public Procurement Tool)
4. The International Procurement Instrument: a new trade policy tool promoting reciprocity in access to international public procurement and concession markets (30 June 2022): author
5. Price Revision for Supply Agreements (8 March 2022): author
6. EU Policy & Regulatory Alert – EU Publishes Artificial Intelligence Ethics Guidelines (12 April 2019): author
7. De digitalisering van overheidsopdrachten: bakens uitgezet door de rechtspraak (The digitalisation of public procurement: case law), Jaarboek Overheidsopdrachten 2018-2019, EBP Publishers, 975-1005: author
8. OLAF, een nobele onbekende in het overheidsopdrachtenrecht (OLAF, an unknown actor in public procurement), Jaarboek Overheidsopdrachten 2017-2018, EBP Publishers, 307-332: co-author
9. Europese aanbestedingen: een vreemde eend in de bijt van het geharmoniseerde overheidsopdrachtenkader (European public procurement: a peculiarity in the context of a harmonised legal public procurement framework), Jaarboek Overheidsopdrachten 2016-2017, EBP Publishers, 403-429: author
10. Het innovatiepartnerschap: een nieuwe vorm van innovatief PPS (The innovation partnerschip: a new form of innovative PPP), Jaarboek Overheidsopdrachten 2015-2016, EBP Publishers, 1171-1190: author

Speaking engagements 

1. Theme day public procurement anno 2021 (25 March 2021): speaker
2. DLA Piper Public Law Academy – Webinar 1: Public procurement case law overview 2020 (January 2021): co-speaker
3. The essentials of public procurement (20 February 2020): speaker