We have advised on the competition law aspects of prime- and sub-contractors in various bid consortia for national and international tenders. This included the setting up of Chinese Walls, “clean teams”, compliance structures and advising on non-discriminatory pricing strategies.
We have been part of compliance teams working on the applicability of Belgian and European export control legislation to software vendors. This involved internal and customer audits as well as informal contacts with relevant authoirities. We have also assisted clients in responding to enquiries related to requests to access public documents and related to parliamentary questions raised by individual MPs.
We have advised various primes and subs bidding on NATO and international defense contracts in optimizing their Background and Foreground IP structure, specifically in relation to use of SDKs, joint developments and FOSS software.
We have assisted a major European holiday park operator in negotiating lease, managed services, outsourcing and joint venture agreements related to the operation of Belgium-based holiday parks.
We have successfully defended the operator of a yachting marina concession against a competitor who applied for annulment of the sole source concession on grounds of failure to organize a market consultation and tender.
We regularly advise on state aid law issues regarding the public financing of sports infrastructure.
