Portrait of Max Hesseling

Max Hesseling Senior Consultant

Max is a member of Oxera’s Competition team, and is based in the Amsterdam office. He has worked on a broad range of competition-related projects—including vertical and horizontal agreements, damage quantifications and FRAND licensing disputes—in the Netherlands, the UK and other jurisdictions. Max has assisted in the preparation of expert testimonies in antitrust investigations and follow-on damages claims. 

Prior to joining Oxera, Max worked at the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, gaining insight into a wide range of economic policy issues in the Netherlands and working in the Competition and Consumer division. Max has an MSc in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, focusing on industrial organisation and competition policy.

Max speaks English, and Dutch.

Tel: +31 (0)20 888 8380

Max's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advice to a rail company regarding its defence against a class action claim that it abused its dominant position (2024–)

  • Advice to a European truck manufacturer in its defence against cartel damages claims in multiple European jurisdictions (2023–)

  • Advice to a multinational card payment services company in its defence against various damages claims in relation to interchange fees (2022–)

  • Advice to a client in the context of a vertical restrictions procedure conducted by the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) (2020–23)

  • Advice to multiple transmission/distribution network operators regarding their damages claims against the high voltage cables cartel (2020–)

  • Advice regarding a damages claim against the polyurethane foam cartel (2020–21)

Selected
publications

  • Niels, G., Hesseling, M. and Kuipers, M. (2020), ‘Modern Prijzen’, ESB Preadviezen 2020, 7 December.

Qualifications

  • MSc Economics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  • BSc Economics and Finance, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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