Raphaël Fleischer

Raph Fleischer is a Belgian-qualified and US educated senior antitrust/competition lawyer.

Raphael focuses his practice on a wide range of issues in global competition/antitrust law. Raphael has a particular focus on merger control, restrictive practices, compliance and cartel matters. He actively represents multinational clients across a wide range of industries.

Raph is a senior associate resident in the Brussels office of King & Spalding and is part of its Antitrust & Competition practice. He provides legal and strategic advice to companies in complex competition/antitrust matters, with a particular emphasis on global merger control, antitrust investigations (cartel and dominance abuse), vertical distribution and foreign direct investment/foreign subsidies review. He represents clients before the European Commission, national competition authorities in the EU and elsewhere and before the Belgian and European Courts.

Companies come to Raphael for commercial and pragmatic solutions on their most complex antitrust issues. He advises on all aspects of EU competition law and has substantial experience in cross-border mergers and joint ventures, high-stakes cartel investigations and complex vertical distribution structures.

Raph regularly advises public and private companies and private equity firms in phase I and phase II merger cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities. He helps clients navigate complex reviews, negotiate remedies and obtain clearance, while coordinating filings and strategy all over the world. Raph regularly counsels on competition/antitrust issues for companies active in the Energy, Aerospace&Defence, Oil&Gas, Logistics, Financial and Consumer Goods industries.  As an antitrust lawyer, Raph has particular experience with counseling clients active in niche industries such as luxury (manufacture and retail), noble metals mining/extraction and with regards to the intersection between antitrust laws and ESG projects.  

Raph graduated magna cum laude from Ghent University in 2011 and from the University of Chicago in 2012. He speaks English, Dutch, French and German.

Prior to joining King & Spalding, Raph was a senior associate at other world-class law firms in the Antitrust & Competition space.