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Stefaan Raes
Partner at Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick
Stefaan Raes is a partner in the leading independent Belgian law firm Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick. He is the head the European and Competition law.
He obtained his law degree at the University of Leuven in Belgium (1980), as well as an LLM at the University of Chicago Law School (1981).
From 1994 until 2015, he was a judge in the Belgian judiciary, first in the Court of first instance in Brussels, and from 1998 onwards in the Brussels Court of appeal, a court of general jurisdiction that also has exclusive jurisdiction to review decisions by regulators such as the Belgian Competition Authority and federal and regional sector regulators in network industries.
From 2004 until 2013, he was the President of the Belgian Competition Council, the decision making body of the Belgian Competition Authority.
He returned to the private Bar in 2015.
