Denis Waelbroeck

Partner, Ashurst

Professor Denis Waelbroeck is a partner in the Ashurst EMEA Antitrust, Regulation and Foreign Investment practice. He has specialised in competition, state aid, trade and regulatory law and EU law generally.

He has handled a great number of procedures for a wide range of corporate and institutional clients, and has vast litigation experience both before the EU Courts as well as before national courts of several European Member States or before arbitrations courts. Denis has represented major corporates in a great number of high level cases in competition law matters. He also represented numerous states, as well as beneficiaries and complainants before the European Commission and European Court of Justice in State aid matters.

He is and has been for several decades a professor of Competition Law at the College of Europe in Bruges and of Competition Law at the Free University Brussels (ULB). He has also written several books and more than hundred articles in legal reviews on EU and competition law related matters.

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Key IP considerations in vertical agreements—checklist

Checklists

This Checklist focuses on the intellectual property (IP) aspects of vertical agreements. It covers the key competition law considerations and considers the following issues: the parties to and structure of vertical agreements, identifying the IP, the scope of the licence, restricting the use of the IP, IP ownership, third-party IP, protection of licensor’s IP and warranties and indemnities.

Practice Area

Panel

Contributing Author

Membership

Member of the Brussels Bar (French speaking)
CCBE delegation to the ECJ
GLLC Board of Directors
Professor of EU competition law both at the University libre de Bruxelles (the Brussels Free University) and at the College of Europe in Bruges