Janneke Kohlen is a partner in Bird & Bird’s Competition & EU Law Group in The Hague where she specialises in competition law and public procurement law, advising on contentious and non-contentious matters for a broad variety of the firm’s clients with a specific focus on the Life Sciences sector as well as ICT and transportation. Janneke joined Bird & Bird in 2009 and was promoted to partner in May 2017. With in-depth experience in merger control, cartel cases and abuse of dominance issues, Janneke also has broad expertise in acting as a compliance officer in meetings with competitors. In addition, Janneke’s practice also consists of advising on distribution agreements and she frequently provides in-house competition compliance programmes and trainings to clients. This comes along with extensive experience in drafting codes of conducts for companies, with a focus on competition law. In addition, she advises a variety of Bird & Bird’s clients on issues throughout the public procurement process, from reviewing tender documents and advising clients on the questions to ask procuring entities, to representing companies in court.