De Brauw acted as legal adviser to Royal Friesland Foods, a leading producer and supplier of dairy products, and branch company Campina on their merger and on all subsequent competition aspects.

It was a merger between cooperatives at a top level followed by a merger of holding companies at a lower level. The value of the transaction was EUR 9.1 billion. The European Commission approved the merger between Friesland Foods and Campina in December 2008.

Team: René Clumpkens, Harm-Jan de Kluiver, Erik Pijnacker Hordijk, Jan-Willem Hoevers