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2025 - present: Managing Associate, Linklaters Brussels.
2022 - 2025: Legal Secretary, General Court of the EU.
2020 - 2021: Associate, Freshfields London.
2017 - 2020: Associate, Linklaters Brussels.
2025 - present: Managing Associate, Linklaters Brussels.
2022 - 2025: Legal Secretary, General Court of the EU.
2020 - 2021: Associate, Freshfields London.
2017 - 2020: Associate, Linklaters Brussels.
Thomas is a Managing Associate in the Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group in Brussels. He advises multinational corporates on all aspects of EU and Belgian competition law, as well as on new regulatory frameworks such as the Digital Markets Act and the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation.
Before his current role, Thomas worked as a legal secretary (référendaire) at the General Court of the European Union, where he contributed to the resolution of more than 200 cases, including the first judgments under the Digital Markets Act, the Google AdSense abuse of dominance case, State aid cases on COVID-19 support for EU airlines and numerous precedent-setting banking union rulings. This background positions him particularly well to assist clients with contentious matters, such as complex antitrust or DMA investigations that may result in litigation before the EU Courts.
Thomas has worked on a range of high-profile matters, including:
*matters handled while practising at a different firm.
Oxford University: PhD on the competitive effects of minority shareholdings (part-time, 2019-2024); Magister Juris (2017, first in class).
Leuven University: Master of Laws (2016, first in class).
Thomas is fluent in English, Dutch and French.
Thomas regularly publishes on competition and EU law. Representative publications include: