Pascal Berghe’s main areas of practice include EU competition law, general EU law and EU regulatory issues. He advises clients on these issues in the context of transactions, litigation and proceedings before the competition authorities.

Mr. Berghe has represented clients before the European Commission in merger control reviews, cartel investigations and abuse of dominance proceedings. He has also been involved in appeals before both the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Mr. Berghe has advised companies active in a broad range of industries, including the IT, consumer goods, retail, pharmaceutical and banking sectors.

Mr. Berghe has advised companies and NGOs on EU legislative procedure. He has also been involved in the development of competition law and has contributed to the drafting of regulations or guidelines in several African jurisdictions.

Mr. Berghe has authored a number of articles on competition law and has been appointed as a research fellow at the University of Liège.

Pascal Berghe worked with another leading competition law firm from 2005 to 2006. He joined White & Case in September 2007.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 2008
Brussels Bar, 2005

Education
LLM, Trade Regulation, New York University, 2007
LLM, European Legal Studies, College of Europe, Bruges, 2005
Licence en Droit, Université de Liège, 2004

Publications
Co-author, "This is not the time to be tinkering with Regulation 1/2003 – It is time for fundamental reform – Europe should have change we can believe in", Competition Law Review, July 2010, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 259-285 (with James Killick)
Co-author, "Rambus: An overview of the issues in the case and future lessons for SSO’s when designing IPR policies", Concurrences Tendances, Standards, Patent Pooling and Competition, N° 2-2010, pp. 6-12 (with James Killick)
Co-author, "Closing Rambus – The implications for standard setting, and a thought about Tony Blair", Competition Law Insight, 9 February 2010 (with James Killick)
Co-author, "Does promoting off-label use of medicines on budgetary grounds risk jeopardising the integrity of the marketing authorisation requirement system?", Pharmaceutical Law Insight, December 2009 (with James Killick)
Co-author, "Little Pig, Little Pig, Let Me Come In: An Evaluation of the European Commission’s Powers of Inspection in Competition Cases", (2009) 30(9) European Competition Law Review, pp. 407-423 (with Anthony Dawes)
Co-author, "Importations parallèles: Comment concilier intérêt du consommateur et intégration du marché communautaire?", Concurrences - Revue Des Droits de la Concurrence, No. 4-2008 (with Assimakis Komninos)
Co-author, "Who is the Predator (2)? The French Competition Council’s GSK Predation Decision is Overruled", Competition Law Insight, 1 July 2008 (with Axel Schulz)
Co-author, "Korea-EU trade relationship: where do we stand?", Korean International Trade Association, June 2008 (with Louis Apker)

Languages
Dutch
English
French