Lodewick Prompers

Lodewick has extensive experience at both national and EU level in the antitrust aspects of complex global M&A deals, including remedy processes. He has successfully advised clients on market-leading deals, investigations and litigation in the chemicals, healthcare, financial services, media, mining, mobility and technology sectors.

He is also the go-to person for any queries related to Belgium, Luxembourg or the Netherlands on antitrust investigations and litigation, merger control, foreign investment control and foreign subsidies regulation. Chambers Global 2024 has ranked Lodewick as a Foreign Expert for the Netherlands, citing his notable experience assisting clients with obtaining merger clearance before the Dutch competition authority and representing clients in investigations. Clients describe him as “very good”.

Work highlights

Lodewick has been a key advisor on a number of significant M&A and antitrust matters. These include advising:

• Nasdaq on the sale of its EU power business to EEX, the third-ever Article 22 referral to the European Commission of a transaction that was not notifiable anywhere in the EU
• Intel on the USD 7bn sale of its NAND and SSD memory business to SK Hynix
• LG Electronics on the appeal before the European Courts in Luxembourg against a EUR 296m cartel fine imposed by the European Commission in relation to the CRT cartel
• Linde on its USD 86bn merger with Praxair, creating the world’s largest industrial gas supplier
• Delhaize on its EUR 25bn merger with Ahold, creating one of the biggest food retailers in the United States and a major player in Europe
• a global healthcare company on an excessive pricing investigation by the Dutch competition authority, leading to the authority closing the investigation
• TDR Capital on its EUR 5bn sale of LeasePlan to ALD, creating a leading global player in mobility
• DELA on its acquisition of Yarden, creating the largest funeral insurance and service provider in the Netherlands
• ING and KBC on the sale of Payconiq International to EPI
• Mediahuis on several acquisitions in the Netherlands (NDC and TMG)

Lodewick joined Linklaters as an associate in 2013. He was promoted to Counsel in 2023. During his career at Linklaters, Lodewick was seconded to the Firm’s London office. Given his close link to the Dutch market, he splits his time between the Amsterdam and Brussels offices.

Before joining Linklaters, Lodewick interned at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition and the Dutch Competition Authority (the ACM).

Lodewick regularly publishes on recent competition law developments, particularly in the field of merger control and foreign investment control and developments that concern the Benelux. Recent examples include:

• GCR Digital Markets Guide – Third Edition – Chapter 6 – Crucial Developments to European Data and Privacy in Merger Control (2023)
• Competition Law Insight – New guidelines on abuse of dominance in the EU (2023)
• LinkingCompetition Blog – Hitting a brick wall? The review of below-threshold mergers in the EU (2023)
• ForeignInvestmentLinks – Foreign investment control in the Benelux – Part 3 – Luxembourg launches new foreign investment screening regime (2023)
• ForeignInvestmentLinks – Foreign investment control in the Benelux – Part 2 – The Netherlands initiates a general investment screening regime (2023)
• ForeignInvestmentLinks – Foreign investment control in the Benelux – Part 1 – Belgium starts screening foreign investments
• Kluwer Competition Law Blog – Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2022 – Belgium (2023)
• LinkingCompetition Blog – Briefing paper à la Bruxelloise: European Commission issues guidance on merger control submissions under Article 22 EUMR (2022)
• LinkingCompetition Blog – What’s the fix? A wave of ‘right to repair’ initiatives sweeps the US and Europe (2021)
• LinkingCompetition Blog – The European Commission’s initial findings on the IoT sector: new bottles, old wine (2021)

Lodewick studied law at the University of Amsterdam (LLM degree, Magna Cum Laude), Oxford University (MJur degree, Lincoln College) and the New York University School of Law.

Lodewick works in Dutch and English. He is a member of the Amsterdam bar and registered on the EU list of the Dutch-speaking bar in Brussels.

Lodewick regularly publishes updates on recent competition law developments. Publications include:

• Lodewick Prompers, Florian Jonniaux, Lucas Macharis and Magali Ruysschaert, "New guidelines on abuse of dominance in the EU", Competition Law Insight, August 2023

• Lodewick Prompers, Sari Corrijn and Florian Jonniaux, “Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2022 – Belgium”, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, March 2023
• Annamaria Mangiaracina and Lodewick Prompers, “Data and Privacy in EU Merger Control”, GCR Digital Markets Guide – Second Edition, November 2022 
• Annamaria Mangiaracina and Lodewick Prompers, “Data and Privacy in EU Merger Control”, GCR Digital Markets Guide – First Edition, December 2021 
• Gerwin Van Gerven and Lodewick Prompers, “LG Electronics and Philips v Commission: Joint Venture Parents, Be Aware”, JECLAP 3/2018
• Maikel Van Wissen and Lodewick Prompers, “Big Data, Big Concerns? EU Competition Law Implications of the Changing Role of Big Data in the Financial Services Industry”, Competition Policy International, December 2016
• Nikolaos Peristerakis, Lodewick Prompers and Mar García, “The Commission’s Merger Enforcement in Mobile Mergers: Brave New World for Non-coordinated Effects?”, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, November 2015 (1)
• Jonas Koponen and Lodewick Prompers, “Personal and private: The competition analysis in the Facebook/WhatsApp decision”, Competition Law Insight, 9 June 2015
• Sibel Yilmaz and Lodewick Prompers, “Keep Your Eyes Fixed on the Stars and Your Feet on the Ground: Recent Developments in the EU Telecommunications Sector from a Competition Law Perspective”, The Computer & Internet Lawyer, Volume 32, Number 1, January 2015
• Lodewick Prompers, “Seller beware: uitsluiting van aanbestedingen op basis van een overtreding van het mededingingsrecht”, MP 2014/4, pp. 26-30