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Melissa Van Schoorisse
Melissa Van Schoorisse is a special counsel who focuses on a wide range of complex antitrust issues, including multi-jurisdictional merger control filings, international and Belgian cartel investigations, state aid matters, and general behavioral advice, counselling and compliance work.
Ms. Van Schoorisse has represented international and Belgian clients from a wide variety of industries, including the transport, media, consumer goods, power generation and energy fields.
Ms. Van Schoorisse has - prior to joining Covington - gained extensive experience as an associate at two international law firms in Brussels, and as a secondee to the in-house competition team of a multinational oil and gas company in London, dealing with a wide array of vertical issues, cartel investigations, M&A transactions, and compliance training.
- Represented a consumer products manufacturer before the Belgian Competition Authority and the Court of Appeal in a cartel investigation, leading to the first Belgian settlement decision.
- Representing PSA Antwerp in a wide array of matters, including a cartel investigation before the Belgian Competition Authority and the Court of Appeal, interventions in several proceedings before national courts, as well as transactional matters.
- Representing a Fortune Global 10 energy and petrochemical company in a cartel investigation before the European Commission.
- Representing a client in a Belgian price-fixing cartel investigation.
- Representing the Belgian State in a state aid matter relating to the financial services sector.
- Representing a global bank in ongoing investigations into the financial sector.
- Advised a Fortune Global 500 tyre manufacturer in its acquisition of a tyre wholesaler.
- Advised De Persgroep in its acquisition of the Sanoma magazines, leading to a conditional Phase I clearance decision.
In addition to the above, Melissa Van Schoorisse has also advised several third party complainants during Belgian and European merger investigations, including appeal proceedings.
Finally, Ms. Van Schoorisse has also assisted on several additional cartel investigations before each of the European Commission and the Belgian competition authority in the glass, flour, transport, computer hardware, and other sectors.
Previous Experience
- Secondment to the in-house competition team of a multinational oil and gas company in London, dealing with a wide array of vertical issues, cartel investigations, M&A transactions, and compliance training.
- Associate at two international law firms in Brussels.
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March 26, 2019, Covington Competition
On 14 March 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued a preliminary ruling in Case C-724/17 Vantaan kaupunki v Skanska Industrial Solutions Oy and Others, holding that the principle of economic continuity applies in actions for damages resulting from infringements of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the...… Continue Reading
December 22, 2018, Covington Competition
The General Court dismissed the appeal by Groupe Canal + against the European Commission’s decision accepting Paramount’s commitments in the cross-border pay-TV investigation (T-873/16 Groupe Canal +). It held that territorial restrictions leading to a partitioning of the internal market could be considered as by-object infringements of competition law, thereby ...
October 30, 2018, Covington Competition
On October 26, 2018 the European Commission (“Commission”) unconditionally approved Sony Corporation of America’s (“Sony”) acquisition of control of EMI Music Publishing (“EMI”). The USD 2.7 billion (GBP 1.7 billion) acquisition results in Sony becoming the world’s largest music publisher. Background. EMI is currently jointly controlled by Sony and Mubadala, ...
September 11, 2018, Covington Competition
On April 23, the European Commission (“Commission”) opened an in-depth investigation of Apple’s acquisition of Shazam in order to, in the words of Commissioner Vestager, ensure that “music fans won’t face less choice as a result of this proposed merger”. On September 6, 2018, the Commission concluded its investigation, issuing an unconditional clearance. This ...
Latest developments in anti-cartel enforcement in the European Union (June 2015 - June 2016)
September 2016, Competition Law & Policy Debate
September 2015, Competition Law & Policy Debate
Horizontal Cooperation Agreements
August 2015, IBC's EU Competition Law Summer School 2015
August 2015, TBM-RCB
June 23, 2015, Covington Alert
Covington’s Brussels harvest
September 22, 2014, Commercial Dispute Resolution
Covington's Peter Camesasca, Johan Ysewyn, Melissa Van Schoorisse, Miranda Cole, Henriette Tielemans, Sebastian Vos, and Jean De Ruyt are mentioned in this article on the growth of Covington's Brussels office: "April was a busy month for Covington & Burling’s competition lawyers, marking, as it did, the welcome return of Peter Camesasca – who temporarily ...
September 17, 2014, Global Policy Watch
Ending months of speculation, Danish Commissioner Margrethe Vestager (46) has been nominated for the Competition portfolio in the European Commission. The former Danish Minister of Economic Affairs and the Interior, and Deputy-Prime Minister, will take up one of the most powerful positions in the Commission, succeeding Joaquín Almunia, with the task of ...
Horizontal Cooperation Agreements
August 2014, IBC's EU Competition Law Summer School 2014
September 2013, Intersentia
Horizontal Cooperation Agreements
August 2013, IBC's EU Competition Law Summer School 2013 at Cambridge
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Competition - Belgian, EU, and Global (2017)