Nordine Lgarah

Attorney-at-law | Associate
Nordine Lgarah

Nordine specialises in Dutch and EU competition law. He litigates and advises on matters including the internal market, state aid, market regulation and competition.

  • Represented Kone before the Dutch Supreme Court in preliminary ruling proceedings and follow-on proceedings for damages started by claims organizations after the European Commission established a cartel in the elevators and escalators industry.
  • Represented Orbia and its subsidiary Vestolit in landmark civil damages proceedings before the Amsterdam District Court relating to the EU competition law ethylene infringement. In the first major damages proceedings involving four purchasers of ethylene, the claimants brought billion-euro claims alleging that the infringement had resulted in lower ethylene prices, causing them significant harm. The Court concluded that it was implausible that the infringement had caused any damage to the claimants and dismissed both claims in their entirety
  • Diploma in Legal Studies (with distinction) (University of Oxford)
  • LL.M. Private Law (cum laude) (Leiden University)
  • LL.B. Dutch Law (cum laude) (Maastricht University)
  • LL.B. Tax Law (cum laude) (Maastricht University)
  • Admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 2024

Expertise

Competition
We advise and assist national and international companies, institutions and governments in procedures before the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, the European Commission, foreign competition authorities, and the relevant (specialised) courts.
EU
EU law has a huge impact on almost all sectors and businesses. In many sectors, fair competition in the internal EU market is ensured through highly detailed and complex regulations relating to market access, production processes and products and services offered on the market.