Amaryllis Müller
About:
Amaryllis is a principal associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Brussels. Her practice covers all aspects of European and Belgian competition law, with a focus on cross-border merger control and competition litigation. She has completed a 10-month secondment at the Freshfields office in Washington, DC and also expanded her practical experience during a client secondment. Amaryllis is an alumna of Harvard Law School, College of Europe (Bruges), KU Leuven and Humboldt University.
languages
Dutch, English, German, French
Expertise:
Experience:
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Principal Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
September 2013 - Present • Brussels, Belgium
Recent cases Amaryllis has advised on: - CK Hutchison on its attempted acquisition of O2 UK and the subsequent landmark appeal before Europe’s General Court, which overturned the European Commission’s prohibition decision. - Tech clients on confidential antitrust mandates, as well as industrial clients on the antitrust aspects of digital transformation. - Anheuser-Busch InBev in its defence of a high-profile investigation by the European Commission into alleged abuse of dominance on the Belgian beer market relating to parallel trade with neighbouring countries, which resulted in a novel cooperation decision. - ThyssenKrupp in the damages litigation brought by the European Commission following the Commission’s decision imposing fines on four elevator companies for bid-rigging. - Cengage Learning on the global merger control process, including a US DoJ Second Request, of its proposed merger with McGraw-Hill Education, Inc.Education:
Harvard Law School
2018 - 2019
LLM
College of Europe, Bruges
2012 - 2013
LLM
Humboldt University Berlin
2010 - 2011
Visiting student (Erasmus)
KU Leuven
2007 - 2012
Master of Law