Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: Competition lawyer Jacques Buhart to head McDermott’s Brussels office, (Feb 25, 2016)

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery has named competition lawyer Jacques Buhart to replace Philip Bentley as the new head of its office in Brussels, the firm recently announced.

Concentrating on European Union (EU) competition rules and mergers and acquisitions, Buhart handles competition cases out of the firm’s offices in Paris and Brussels. He has over 15 years of experience in handling a broad range of complex competition matters and litigation in the European courts and is very active in the area of mergers and acquisitions, as well as litigation and cartel investigations.

Buhart received his legal education from the Sorbonne, Paris; the Hague Academy of International Law; the Institute of Comparative Law, Paris; and the University of Paris, DESS. In addition, he has also read for an MBA from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris, been a visiting professor of EU competition law at the University of Aix-en-Provence and at the University of Tokyo, is a member of the board of the Sorbonne Law School, and is a published author on EU competition and M&A topics.

McDermott Will & Emery, an international law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers, has offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C.

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