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Benoit Servais and Kristina Winkelmann Join Nishimura & Asahi
We are delighted to welcome two new partners, Benoit Servais and Kristina Winkelmann, to our Brussels office.
Benoit Servais:
Benoit Servais has extensive practice in EU and international economic law from his experience gained working for more than 30 years in a leading law firm headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. His practice has been recognized in major legal directories such as Chambers and by clients.
Kristina Winkelmann:
Kristina Winkelmann has approximately 10 years of experience at the Brussels office of a leading international law firm, specializing in EU antitrust law and the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). Her expertise includes a secondment to our Tokyo office in 2022-2023. She also gained first-hand experience at the European Commission and the Japan Fair Trade Commission and is admitted to the German Bar.
We are confident that their extensive experience will enhance our ability to support our clients even more effectively.
Find their profiles here:
Benoit Servais
Kristina Winkelmann
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She has practiced for over 8 years at a leading international law firm in Brussels. Her practice covers, inter alia, merger control, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance, and antitrust compliance. She has particular expertise in FSR filings & compliance, guiding numerous international companies through in-house data collection processes.
Kristina draws on first-hand experience from the European Commission in Brussels and the Japan Fair Trade Commission in Tokyo. She has counseled across a wide range of industries - such as automotive, electronics, heavy industries, and logistics - with a strong focus on helping Asian corporate clients navigate European regulatory challenges. She has also spoken on the FSR developments at the Competition Law Forum Japan.
Kristina holds law degrees from Germany and France and is admitted to the German Bar in Munich (Rechtsanwältin) and the Brussels Bar (EU registered lawyer / E-list, Ordre Français). She is a member of the German-Japanese Lawyers’ Association, as well as the Antitrust Lawyers Association in Germany.
With regard to EU law, Benoit has been involved in more than 160 EU anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations since 1992 for clients from around the world. He has also successfully represented clients before the Court of Justice in the European Union in landmark trade-related disputes. Benoit also acts for EU exporting producers in anti-dumping investigations initiated by third countries and represents domestic producers in third country in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations initiated by these third countries. Benoit is the main contributor in the standard work of reference in the field of EU trade law.