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Thomas Vinje

Thomas Vinje

Title
Partner, Chairman, Global Antitrust Group
Office
Clifford Chance, Brussels | View map
Practice
Antitrust, competition, EU & trade, M&A Corporate
Sector
Consumer goods & retail, Technology, Technology, media & telecoms, Telecommunications
Publications
9

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Tel
+3225335929

Experience and career history

Specializes in European Union competition and intellectual property law, especially in high-technology matters.

Advises major corporations regarding mergers, joint ventures, distribution systems, licensing, and competition and intellectual property litigation.

Particular experience in advising in relation to the information and communications technology industries.

Thomas speaks regularly on European Union intellectual property and antitrust law, and has authored numerous articles and contributions to books on those topics. He chairs the U.S. Board of Editors for Droit de l'Informatique et des Telecoms and sits on the Board of Editors for Computer und Recht International. He lectures in the International Copyright programme at the University of Amsterdam and in the International Business Law Postgraduate Program at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

University of Washington BA in Political Science and Norwegian summa cum laude 1977
Columbia Law School, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and James Kent Scholar 1982
Joined Clifford Chance as partner 2004
English and Welsh solicitor
Member of the bars of Hawaii and California

He speaks Norwegian, English and German

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