Frans Muller
Biography
Frans Muller is a partner in the Amsterdam Competition & Trade Practice Group of Baker McKenzie. Frans has almost two decades of experience in antitrust and foreign investment reviews. He advises on obtaining merger control clearances, investigations and compliance in relation to cartel laws and abuse of dominance as well as national security and foreign investment controls. Frans has extensive experience across a wide variety of industries and sectors and has dealt with a variety of national and international regulatory authorities. He has also worked in Brussels and Paris.
Practice Focus
Frans has extensive experience in all areas of EU and Dutch competition law and foreign investment screening (FIR/FDI) laws. He advises on multi-jurisdictional merger control and national security/foreign investment reviews, antitrust compliance and distribution/commercial agreements, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance and state aid.
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised Keysight Technologies Netherlands on the acquisition of Riscure Holding Software.
- Advised APG Asset Management on the formation of a greenfield joint venture (Glaspoort) with Royal KPN on the rollout of fiber connections in the Netherlands.
- Advised CR Group and its equity investors on the acquisition of Fox-Crypto, provider of cyber-security solutions.
- Advised Lone Star Funds on the acquisition of ERIKS from SHV.
- Advised ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank on antitrust and FDI aspects of EPI's planned acquisition of iDEAL, to create a new pan-European digital payments solution.
- Advised Royal DSM on merger control and FDI aspects of the sale of its engineering materials business for an enterprise value of EUR 3.85 billion.
- Advised Royal DSM on merger control and FDI aspects of the sale of its protective materials business to Avient Corporation for an enterprise value of EUR 1.44 billion.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Dutch Bar Association (NOvA)
- Dutch Association for Competition Law (VvM)
Admissions
- Amsterdam~The Netherlands (2008)
Education
- King's College London (LL.M. Competition Law) (2008)
- Leiden University (Master, Law) (2007)
Languages
- Dutch
- English
- French
Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam N.V. is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.