Brussels Competition Lawyer Elected Chair of the Institute of International & European Affairs
BRUSSELS (11 July 2007) — The Brussels office of McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that Benoît Keane, a lawyer in its European Competition Group, has been elected Chair of the Brussels branch of the Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA).
The IIEA is a policy research think-tank and forum, providing its members with information on international and EU policy developments and their implications for Ireland. Its members include government ministers, senior civil service officials, company chairpersons, leading diplomats, trade unions and non-governmental organisations. Benoît chairs the Brussels committee whose activities include the hosting of high level events and the publication of books and articles on international and EU policy.
Benoît is a solicitor based in the Firm’s Brussels office. His practice focuses on EU and competition law. In the field of competition law, he acts in antitrust, merger control and State aid cases. He has extensive experience before the European Institutions and Courts. Benoît has written a number of articles on developments in EU law and is a member of the editorial board of the legal journal, World Competition.
