Associate
Simon Troch is an associate in the Brussels office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Global Antitrust & Competition Practice. Simon’s practice focuses on all aspects of Belgian and EU competition law in the broadest sense (abuse of dominance, cartel matters, foreign subsidies, foreign direct investment, merger control proceedings, private damage claims, and State aid), and EU law in general (food regulations, access to documents, damages claims vis-à-vis EU institutions, etc.).
As a litigator, Simon has extensive experience representing clients in the most complex litigious matters before the EU courts in Luxembourg. He has represented clients before both the General Court (GC) and European Court of Justice (ECJ), and dealt with all types of procedures (regular, expedited, interim relief, interventions, cost claims, etc.). In this context, Simon was part of the Latham team that achieved a landmark victory before the ECJ in the GRAIL case (C-625/22 P) leading to the ECJ invalidating the European Commission’s unlawful assertion of jurisdiction over transactions not meeting the EU or any national merger control thresholds. The Latham team’s extensive assessment of the EU Merger Regulations’ travaux préparatoires (i.e., the preparatory works) played a key role in the ECJ’s decision to overturn the GC judgment.
Simon’s experience covers several industry sectors including pharma, food, security, mining, maritime transport, and basic industries.
In addition, Simon holds a teaching role at the Université de Liège ( Uliège) where he focuses on teaching legal writing, oral pleading, and merger control, and is responsible for the coaching of the Uliège’s moot court teams participating in pleading competitions concerning EU law such as the European Law Moot Court (ELMC). Simon also frequently writes on a broad range of topics related to competition and EU law.
Prior to joining Latham, Simon worked as antitrust associate at other leading international law firms in Brussels.
Simon’s representative experience includes:
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham
A Brussels and Düsseldorf-based Latham antitrust team, led by Sven Völcker and Dr. Michael Esser, successfully persuaded the European Commission to close without action or remedy, its interim measures investigation against Lufthansa.
Concurrences, a leading European publisher, selected four Latham articles from over 1,200 global submissions.