Annabel Kingma is a lawyer in the field of (European) competition law and sector-specific regulation.
Annabel’s experience extents to various aspects of competition law. She advises on matters relating to the cartel prohibition, abuse of dominance cases, merger control, collaboration agreements and healthcare contracting and procurement (e.g. obtaining realistic rates by healthcare providers). Annabel also regularly assists companies in obtaining approval for mergers and acquisitions from the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa) and/or the Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM).
Examples of cases Annabel has worked on include:
- A successful CBb appeal against the NZa's pricing decision for GP care on behalf of more than 200 GPs;
- Won summary proceedings on realistic tariffs in youth care, orthopaedic shoes, primary diagnostics (also at the court of appeal) and mental health care
- Preliminary relief proceedings representing over 200 general practitioners to obtain cost-covering reimbursement of GP care;
- Successfully assisting Funda in an investigation by the ACM into allegedly unreasonable access conditions for third parties;
- Two preliminary relief proceedings, emergency appeal and civil proceedings on behalf of FMN, ALLRAIL and FlixBus against direct award of main rail network;
- The ACM's clearance of transactions in the fields of elderly healthcare, disability healthcare, orthopaedic shoes, various office supplies, technical wholesalers, forensic healthcare, installation engineering, freight transport en heat pumps.
Annabel is an associate at Maverick Advocaten and was admitted to the Dutch Bar in February 2021. Annabel started her career at Maverick Advocaten in 2018 as a paralegal and junior associate.
Annabel graduated cum laude from Utrecht University in July 2019 with a Master's degree in Law and Economics. During her master's she was a student representative at university council meetings and she participated in an international moot court. In her thesis, she researched all ACM's annulled fine decisions. During her bachelor she completed a minor in economics.
