Van der Woude advises clients on European law and competition law.

Van der Woude sat as a judge at the General Court of the European Union from 2010 and served as its President from 2019 until his resignation in September 2026.

Van der Woude practised competition law from 1995 to 2010, after having worked for eight years in the EU institutions. He was appointed a judge at the General Court in 2010, became Vice-President in 2016 and President in 2019, a role in which he ruled on cases concerning digital markets, merger control and abuse of dominance.

He has held the chair in competition law at Erasmus University Rotterdam since 2000.