Denis Fosselard

Partner, Ashurst

Denis is a partner and head of the Antitrust, Regulation and Foreign Investment department in Brussels. Denis is a dual qualified lawyer (Rome and Brussels Bar) and speaks fluent Italian, French and English. His practice focuses on all aspects on EU antitrust law and he has 20 years' experience in advising leading European corporates in relation to behavioural and merger control cases. He also has significant experience in assisting companies in State aid investigations.

Denis regularly represents clients before both the European Commission and national competition authorities in Italy, Belgium, and so on, as well as the EU General Court and Court of Justice in antitrust and other Community law proceedings.

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Key IP considerations in R&D agreements—checklist

Checklists

This Checklist focuses on the IP aspects of R&D agreements and identifies the key terms typically included in an R&D agreement. This document can be used as a checklist of issues to consider when drafting, reviewing or negotiating such agreements. Key competition law considerations are also considered.

R&D agreements—drafting for the EU R&D BER 2023—checklist

Checklists

This Checklist sets out the essential points that should be considered when drafting new Research and Development (R&D) agreements, or updating existing R&D agreements, to assess whether they fall within the EU R&D BER 2023 (Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1066 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to certain categories of research and developments agreements). This Checklist is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to the EU R&D BER 2023 but should be used where a commercial lawyer wants to ensure that an R&D agreement falls within the EU R&D BER 2023 and accompanying Horizontal Guidelines.

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