Bram Nijhof

Featured award

Chambers 2025

Individual Ranking - Competition / European Law

Bram heads our Competition, EU and Trade team in the Netherlands and is a member of our European competition law team that operates from our Brussels office.

Known for getting to the heart of matters quickly, Bram advises and litigates on all aspects of competition law, public procurement and state aid. He is also one of few Dutch experts on the competition law components of standard essential patents and FRAND.

CV

2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2015-2021 Counsel, Taylor Wessing

2014 - 2015 Lawyer, Deterink Attorneys and Notaries, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Career

2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2015-2021 Counsel, Taylor Wessing

2014 - 2015 Lawyer, Deterink Attorneys and Notaries, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Education

2009 Admitted to the bar, Almelo

2008 LLM Law & Language Studies, Maastricht University and University of Edinburgh

Publications

Opschorting van vervaltermijnen: het (snoei)mes dat van twee kanten snijdt, Mededingingsrecht in de Praktijk, March 2015, no. 2, 73
Aanbestedingsplatforms door overheid op achterstand, SC Online, February 2015, no. 3
Staatssteun en de Nederlandse vastgoedpraktijk: gemiste kansen, Grondzaken in de praktijk, December 2014
Een grondtransactie bevat staatssteun: maakt dat de transactie automatisch en in zijn geheel nietig?, Grondzaken in de praktijk, Oktober 2014
BR2015/95: Schadevergoeding versus staatsteun: oneigenlijk gebruik van de onteigeningsrechtvaardiging
JAAN 2025/56 – Met noot – Nijhof, B. en Geelen, S.A.P. – Rechtbank Den Haag 23 januari 2025, ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2025:734

Memberships & Associations

Dutch Association for Competition Law
University of Maastricht, Guest Lecturer

Additional languages

Awards

Chambers 2025

Featured

Chambers 2022

Experience

Five Arrows Principal Investments on their acquisition of SUCZEZ group

Filing for and obtaining merger control approval for the acquisition of SUCSEZ group by Five Arrows Principal Investments.

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A large smartphone and tablet manufacturer

Representing a large smartphone and tablet manufacturer in Dutch patent infringement proceedings involving (alleged) standard essential patents that are part of the UMTS standard.

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REWE Group

Competition and merger control law advice to REWE on various projects, among others on the acquisitions of coop and Lekkerland. REWE is one of the most important German trading and tourism companies, which we advise on various large-scale cross-border projects.

Press release

Stephan Manuel Nagel, LL.M. (EUI)

Dr. Stefan Horn, LL.B.

Martin Eckel, LL.M.

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