Paul Kreijger has been a competition, media and intellectual property lawyer since 1997. He is one of the founders and partner of the firm. His practice focuses on competition law, consumer law and trade practices, telecommunications, media law, copyright, copyright contract law and privacy. He advises and litigates for publishers, record companies, producers, broadcasters, retail companies, industry associations and collecting societies, among others.

Besides an extensive advisory practice, he has extensive experience in a variety of proceedings, both in summary proceedings and before various higher courts and the European Court of Justice. He has completed the Grotius specialisation courses in competition law and general administrative law, as well as the specialisation course in Civil Cassation. Before co-founding the firm with Jacqueline Schaap and Dirk Visser, he worked for a total of 12 years in the competition practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters, and before that, for a number of years, he worked full-time in the cassation practice and in European law and competition practice in Brussels. He regularly gives lectures and courses and publishes widely in his areas of expertise.

Paul is a member of the Competition Law Association (VVM), the Privacy Law Association (VPR), the International Association for Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the Media and Communication Law Association (VMC), the Copyright Law Association (VVA), the Advertising Law Association (VvRr) and the Intellectual Property Litigation Association (VIEPA), among others. He is editor and co-editor of the journal Mediaforum, regular contributor to the journal Markt en Mededinging and is a member of the Competition Law Advisory Committee of the Netherlands Bar Association.

Paul has registered in the register of areas of law of the Dutch Bar Association the areas of law “Economic order law (competition law, telecommunications law)”, “Intellectual Property” and “Privacy law”. Pursuant to this registration, he is obliged to obtain ten training points in each registered area of law each calendar year according to the standards of the Dutch Bar Association.

Representative work:

• Advising and assisting several large companies against allegations of abuse of economic dominance before the ACM and the civil courts;
• Advising industry associations and individual companies in a variety of competition law questions and proceedings;
• Advising news publishers on the establishment and exercise of a collective management organisation for press publishing law;
• Advice and representation of news publishers on claims by freelance journalists for higher fees;
• Advising and representing the internationally largest dance music record label in long-standing proceedings against an international DJ.