Yves Botteman

Partner

• ybotteman@steptoe.com
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• Brussels Office

Yves Botteman is a partner in the Brussels office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. He focuses his practice on competition law.

Mr. Botteman represents global and European businesses before the European Commission and national competition authorities in relation to antitrust violations (including cartels and abuses of monopoly position) and merger control.

He also advises clients on competition issues arising from IP settlement agreements, patent and know-how licensing, distribution, R&D and other specialization agreements between undertakings. Mr. Botteman assists clients in implementing antitrust compliance programs. 

With more than 10 years of experience in Brussels and Washington, Mr. Botteman has gained substantial exposure to industries as diverse as construction materials, chemicals, automotive, industrial gases, medical devices and hygiene products, carton packaging, and enterprise software.

Mr. Botteman is a regular speaker on the competition law aspects of IP licensing.

Prior to joining Steptoe, he was a senior associate at a leading global law firm in Brussels.

Representative Matters

• Advising Japan Airlines in relation to the creation of a joint venture with BA on Europe/Japan destinations.
• Representing Japan Airlines in the EC probe into international passenger services between Europe and Japan.
• Representing a French-based engineering group as complainant in the EC abuse of dominant position investigation against a global mining conglomerate.
• Acting for an Asian airline in the Commission’s investigation into price-fixing in the air cargo sector.
• Representing a leading global energy services supplier in securing merger control clearances in relation to the sale of minority shareholdings in Poland and the Czech Republic.
• Securing Phase I clearance, with remedies, in relation to the combination of two leading premix mortar suppliers in Europe.
• Acting on behalf of a European glass maker in the Commission’s cartel investigation in the flat glass and carglass industries.
• Acting on behalf of a private equity fund in relation to the EC merger control aspects of its proposed acquisition and combination of two carton packaging manufacturers.
• Representing a European-based chemical company in the Commission’s cartel investigation on the European hydrogen peroxide market.
• Acting on behalf of a construction materials conglomerate on the EC merger control aspects of its acquisition of a major European plasterboard supplier.
• Advising a US-based enterprise software developer in its antitrust defense against a public take-over bid launched by its closest US rival.
• Representing clients in relation to national and multi-jurisdictional merger filings.

Select News & Events

• AmCham Connect Highlights Brussels Office
• Law360 Quotes Yves Botteman and Paul Hughes on the European Commission's Class Action Efforts
• Commercial Risk Europe Quotes Guy Soussan and Yves Botteman on the European Commission's New Collective Redress Consultation
• InsideCounsel Quotes Yves Botteman on EU Antitrust Enforcement
• Steptoe Announces Promotion of 13 Lawyers
• Commercial Risk Europe Quotes Guy Soussan and Yves Botteman on the European Commission’s Newly Published Draft Guidelines on Horizontal Co-operation
• EU Insurance Webinar - The New Insurance Block Exemption Regulation, April 12, 2010, (A Steptoe-Sponsored Event)
• LES Benelux - Licensing Course 2009, November 16, 2009
• Craig Simpson and Yves Botteman Address Belgian Chemicals Industry on REACH, September 17, 2009
• The EU Consultation on the Insurance Block Exemption, June 18, 2008

Selected Publications

• "You Can’t Beat the Percentage" – The Parental Liability Presumption in EU Cartel Enforcement
  EU: Cartels and Leniency
  2011, The European Antitrust Review 2012 – A Global Competition Review Special Report
• EU Competition Briefing - Good Faith Disclosure and FRAND Commitment in the Context of Standardisation Agreements in the EU
  May 2011
• EU Competition Briefing - Allocating Cartel Fines Among Companies of a Group
  April 2011
• Why The EU Gets Atty-Client Privilege Wrong
  September 30, 2010, Law360
• EU Competition Advisory - EU Rejects Extension of Attorney-Client Privilege to In-house Lawyers
  September 2010
• (Minimum) Resale Price Maintenance Under the New Guidelines: A Critique and A Suggestion
  The CPI Antitrust Journal, June 2010 (1)
  June 15, 2010
• La Nouvelle Politique De Concurrence De La Commission Européenne Dans L'Assurance
  May 2010, Risk Management
• Severing Parent Liability for Cartel Infringements by Employees of Subsidiaries
  The CPI Antitrust Journal, April 2010 (1)

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Professional Affiliations

• Fulbright Scholar (2000)