Jan Peter van der Veer

Jan Peter van der Veer is a Partner at RBB Economics, based in Brussels, with over 20 years of experience advising clients in complex competition investigations. He specialises in merger and abuse of dominance investigations where he has advised clients in many high-profile cases. His geographic experience spans Europe, South Africa, Russia, India and Saudi Arabia.

Jan Peter has worked on numerous cases in a variety of industries before various competition authorities. He has also advised clients on state aid and trade issues, as well as on private litigation and arbitration cases related to competition law. Jan Peter also has extensive experience of competition and regulatory issues in liberalised industries.

His Phase II EU merger experience comprises Broadcom/VMware, Siemens/Alstom, ArcelorMittal/Ilva, Dow/DuPont, Staples/OfficeDepot, Cargill/ADM, FedEx/TNT, UPS/TNT, Oracle/Sun, Statoil/ConocoPhillips and Cargill/Degussa Food Industries. Other key clients he has worked for include Google and Unilever.

He has published widely on competition policy issues, covering topics such as empirical techniques in mergers, methods to estimate pass-on, abuse of dominance and network effects. Jan Peter holds an MA in Business Economics from Tilburg University and an MA in Transport Economics from the University of Leeds, both with distinction. He also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law from King’s College in London.