Maxime Cuypers
Lawyers
Associate in our Antitrust & Competition practice, based in Brussels.
Maxime advises on EU and Belgian competition and foreign direct investment law, with a particular focus on merger control reviews and cartel investigations. He has acted for clients across a broad array of sectors such as retail and consumer products, pharmaceuticals, construction materials, chemicals, medical imaging and packaging, as well as digital and technology.
Experience
- Nuvei $6.3 billion going-private acquisition
Prior to joining Davis Polk, Maxime’s experience includes advising:
- Stora Enso on its acquisition of De Jong Packaging Group
- Kingspan in numerous merger control proceedings
- Saudi Aramco in numerous merger control proceedings
- A global conglomerate on its complaint against the acquisition of a medical imaging company by a rival company
- Waterland on its acquisition of Vurense Snack Industry as an add-on to its portfolio company, EMPWR
- Advent International on the €4 billion sale of Allnex to PTT Global Chemical
- What’s Cooking? on its proposed acquisition of Imperial Meat Products and Stegeman
- Clients in the media and technology sectors on various dawn raids and cartel investigations
Education
LL.M., University of Cambridge
- first class honours
LL.M., Ghent University
- magna cum laude
LL.B., Ghent University
- magna cum laude
Qualifications and admissions
- Brussels A-List