Niels V.

Niels V. is a Senior Legal Director and Global Competition Law Counsel at Gilead Sciences, where they focus on merger control, foreign direct investment, and behavioral antitrust. They previously held roles such as Head of Legal Benelux and Head of Legal Belgium and Luxemburg, gaining extensive experience in competition law. Niels worked as an Attorney-at-Law at BANNING Advocaten and AKD, and served as a paralegal at Stibbe Advocaten. They hold a Master’s degree from Universiteit Leiden and a Master of Laws (LLM) from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, complemented by an Erasmus experience at Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III).