Nikee Groot

Background

About Nikee Groot

As an attorney at law at AKD I am part of the EU and Competition Law team. Within this team, I am specialized in international and European law with a focus on EU procurement law and private enforcement of competition law. Within these fields of expertise, I advise Dutch as well as international clients and I litigate both before Dutch courts and the European Court of Justice. I make sure that the strategy in each case takes into account the relevant commercial or political interests. EU procurement law I have a broad knowledge of the Dutch Procurement Act as well as the Financial Regulation 2024/2509 (EU tenders). My experience ranges from IT tenders and tenders for the hiring of temporary workers to tenders regarding healthcare. The combination of representing both contracting authorities and tenderers ensures valuable insights in each case I take on. Private enforcement of competition law I specialise in representing parties before the Dutch courts in cartel damages cases, with a focus on plaintiff litigation. In these cases, I combine my knowledge of competition law, civil law and procedural law to achieve the best possible results. Recent cases I represent Dutch municipalities and companies (from all over Europe) before the Court of Justice, for example over exclusion from tenders issued by the EU institutions. I also act as a representative of claimants in private damages claims (private enforcement of competition law). In addition, I recently acted for several care providers against Dutch 'care offices' in a case concerning reasonable remuneration in the healthcare sector and I represented several contracting authorities on the ability to conclude contract on the basis of the in-house exception. What else? Apart from handling concrete cases for clients, I frequently give lectures, presentations and in-house courses in the fields of private enforcement of competition law and European and Dutch procurement law. Lastly, I regularly publish in journals such as JAAN, TAAN and Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht and I am one of the editors of Gezondheidsrecht Updates (GZR).