Portrait of Stéphane Dewulf

Stéphane Dewulf : Associé

Stéphane joined Oxera in 2020 as a Principal and was promoted to Partner in 2021. He now co-heads Oxera’s rapidly expanding competition practice in Brussels, which boasts a team of over 30 economists. Stéphane has represented clients and directed his teams in numerous complex merger control cases and antitrust investigations before the European Commission, the CMA, the French Competition Authority and other competition authorities in Europe and beyond.

Prior to joining Oxera, Stéphane spent six years at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition, focusing on merger control and antitrust investigations in sectors such as digital, IT, media, telecoms, and energy.

Before his tenure at the Commission, Stéphane worked for eight years as an economist at two leading economics consultancies, specialising in competition policy. He provided expert economic advice on mergers, horizontal and vertical agreements, and abuse of dominance issues, predominantly in investigations by European competition authorities and in private litigation contexts.

Stéphane speaks English, and French.

Tel: +32 (0) 2 793 07 13

Stéphane's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Nokia/Infinera—advised Nokia on the EU and multijurisdictional merger control reviews of its acquisition of Infinera (2024–25)

  • Mars/Kellanova—advised Mars on the EU and multijurisdictional merger control reviews of its acquisition of Kellona (2024–25)

  • AMD/ZT Systems—advised AMD on the EU and multijurisdictional merger control reviews of its acquisition of ZT Systems (2024–25)

  • Arçelik/Whirlpool—advised Arçelik and Whirlpool on the EU and CMA merger control reviews of their merger, helping secure unconditional clearances in phase 1 in the EU and in phase 2 in the UK (2022–24)

  • Novozymes/Chr. Hansen—advised Novozymes on the EU and multijurisdictional merger control reviews of their merger, helping secure phase 1 clearances, subject to remedies in the EU (2022–23)

  • Teleperformance/Majorel—assisted Teleperformance in securing EU and multijurisdictional merger control clearance for its acquisition of Majorel (2023)

Qualifications

  • MSc Competition and Market Regulation, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain

  • MA European Economic Studies, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium

  • Masters in Economics, University of Namur, Belgium