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Who’s Who Legal is delighted to publish WWL: Competition 2022. This report is the fruit of months of research. We have canvassed and analysed the opinions of law firm clients and competition experts from around the world.
Our research has revealed 2433 lawyers and experts from 66 jurisdictions who can truly be considered leaders in the field.
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WWL does not list firms, only individual lawyers. The leading firms are those in each region whose listed practitioners received the most total nominations in our research. We highlight individuals at other firms who also scored very highly in our research.
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LEGAL MARKETPLACE ANALYSIS
Those highlighted below are recognised throughout the market for their exceptional practices, which span merger control, abuse of dominance cases, compliance work, cartel investigations and high-stakes antitrust litigation.
Ulrich Soltész
Serge Clerckx is hailed as “a truly talented transactional lawyer”. Peers regard him as “knowledgeable, in particular on merger issues”.
BRUSSELS
Latham & Watkins
Anna Lyle-Smythe Slaughter and May Brussels
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Antoine Winckler
Luca Crocco “has a very pragmatic approach and is very good with client care”. Sources add that he is “always in the client’s corner”.
Philipp Werner attracts recommendations as “an up-and-coming” star and “a great antitrust lawyer”, say sources.
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Kyriakos Fountoukakos
Alicia van Cauwelaert has an excellent behavioural advice practice and frequently works with various competition authorities.
Thomas Graf stands out among peers due his to “excellent work on a number of high-profile cases”.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates Brussels
With almost three decades of experience, Robbert Snelders is “an excellent lawyer” with an outstanding cartel, abuse of domi nance and transactional practice.
Jean-François Bellis
Thomas Janssens
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Brussels
Gerwin Van Gerven Linklaters LLP Brussels
Laurent Garzaniti is one of the firm’s standout names. He is lauded for his deep expertise in complex mergers.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Brussels
Philipp Werner Jones Day Brussels
Thomas Janssens is widely praised by sources for his vast experience and deep expertise in antitrust litigation.
The “highly capable” Sven Völcker is “a pleasure to work with”. He possesses standout experience in complex merger cases before the European Commission.
Hector Armengod is described as “excel lent to work with”. He focuses his superb practice on compliance matters in regulated industries such as healthcare and medical devices.The “outstanding” Jean Paul Poitras is celebrated as one of the most experienced competition lawyers in the market, gaining recognition for his expert handling of merger review, cooperation agreements and abuse of dominance matters.
Bernd Meyring
Gleiss Lutz Brussels
Frank Montag is touted by sources as “one of the very best competition lawyers anywhere”. Sources identify his “outstanding” compe tition and investigations practice, which focuses on cartel investigation, mergers and behavioural matters.
Christopher Cook is “super sharp, to the point and great to work with”, say sources. He possesses “an excellent merger control practice”.
Francisco Enrique González-Díaz is “a very competent lawyer” who is praised for his nuanced understanding of the European Commission. He is described as “knowledge able, persuasive and creative”.
Bernard Amory has built an excellent international reputation. He is particularly well regarded for his expertise in state aid matters before the European Commission.
Antoine Winckler is “a leading French compe tition lawyer” with an outstanding market dominance and cartel investigations practice.
Frederic Depoortere
Michael Bo Jaspers is recognised for being “great at multitasking an array of complicated work”, including the regulatory aspects of complex mergers.
Thomas Wessely is “a top name” in the competition space who stands out for his experience in investigations and litigation.
LEADING FIRMS
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Brussels
Van Bael & Bellis Brussels
Latham & Watkins LLP Brussels
Linklaters LLP Brussels
Jordan Ellison Slaughter and May Brussels
Sascha Schubert is “extremely smart and highly strategic”, according to sources who praise his encyclopaedic knowledge of the European Commission.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Brussels
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
According to commentators, Jennifer Mellott is an eminent competition lawyer whose “wonderful client-facing demeanour” enhances her exceptional practice.
Frank Montag
Sven B Völcker
Andreas von Bonin is highly rated by peers and clients alike, who regard him as “a state aid expert”.
Lars Kjølbye Latham & Watkins LLP Brussels
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Rafique Bachour
Charlotte Breuvart possesses “deep and accurate knowledge of all areas of compe tition law” and is cited as “very technical, responsive and reliable”.
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP Brussels
“Great lawyer” Rafique Bachour is “excellent to work with”. His notable expe rience includes the defence of clients in EU cartel investigations.
Jones Day
Tomas Nilsson is “very knowledge able” and brings “great communication skills”. Sources commend his work on cartel proceedings and merger control.
Lars Kjølbye is “a very insightful lawyer who’s very pleasant to work with”. His areas of expertise include abuse of dominance and restrictive practices.
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Andrzej Kmiecik is a stellar practitioner who has amassed considerable experience in abuse of dominance, licensing and distribu tion matters, among other areas.
Jean-François Bellis is a legendary name who is “one of a kind”, thanks to his knowledge across all facets of EU compe tition law.
Dirk Arts is” “thorough and very well versed in the details of the law”, according to respondents. He is further described as “a solid and vested name in the market” and who brings “a wide know-how”.
Frederic Depoortere with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has “years of experi ence and understands business objectives”, comment interviewees, who laud his “stra tegic advice and direction” in merger review.
Annamaria Mangiaracina is a highly rated figure in Brussels with a wealth of knowledge on international merger control.
Miranda Cole is hailed by peers and clients alike as “one of the finest merger control lawyers in Brussels”.
Markus Röhrig is “very knowledgeable” and regularly handles complex merger issues, with wide-ranging experience in Phase II reviews.
Johan Ysewyn garners plaudits for his sophisticated work on anti-cartel enforce ment and monopolisation cases.
“Well known” lawyer Edurne Navarro Varona of Uría Menéndez stands out for his exem plary work on state aid, merger control and cartel investigations.
Marc Reysen at Reysen Competition Advice & Advocacy is “great on merger control” both in the EU and Germany.
Baker Botts’ Catriona Hatton is heralded as “dynamic” by peers and is considered “up-and-coming” in the space for her deep expertise in compliance matters.
Dechert’s Alec Burnside brings “exten sive experience of his subject, as well as a pragmatic and practical approach”. He is described as “fabulous to work with calm, measured and thoughtful”.
Massimo Merola with BonelliErede is “a big name in state aid law and a pleasure to work with”, according to impressed commentators.
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Yvan Desmedt “is very knowledgeable about the telecoms sector” where he is “very strategic and forward thinking”.
At Clifford Chance, Thomas Vinje is “very well known for tech work” in the competition space.
Gerwin Van Gerven is touted by peers as “one of the best in the business” and stands out for his work on cartel enforcement, monop olisation cases and merger control practice.
Kyriakos Fountoukakos from Herbert Smith Freehills is “a strategic thinker” with over 20 years of experience in competition law for clients across a wide range of sectors.
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Anna Lyle-Smythe of Slaughter and May “is absolutely wonderful to work with”. She possesses “great vision for a case and is very proactive”.
Frank Wijckmans at contrast European & Business Law (CVBA) is a dynamic lawyer with “an excellent reputation” who is “a star in distribution system matters”.
Gavin Bushell of Baker McKenzie is “very dynamic and hard-working”. His practice focuses predominantly on merger work.
Oliver Bretz of Euclid Law is “one of the best competition lawyers in Europe” and a go-to name for merger concerns.
Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo of Garrigues is “a very good lawyer with strong expertise in the tech sector”. He possesses “a quality beyond his years”, say sources.
Fiona Carlin is hailed as “one of the most well-known antitrust practitioners in Brussels” and is “a role model in the industry”.
Jordan Ellison is “always proactive in providing solutions to work out any difficulties that we face regarding EU competition law”, says one client. Peers state, “He is the best competition lawyer I know.”
Anne Federle with Bird & Bird is “easy to work with, considered and measured”. She draws praise from market experts, who regard her as “a great lawyer”.
Schild’s Annette Luise Schild “can be trusted to give carefully weighed-up advice” across an array of merger and cartel issues.
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Jürgen Schindler with Allen & Overy is “an absolutely fantastic competition lawyer” who is “a pleasure to work with”.
Peter Camesasca is held in high regard by peers for his impressive antitrust practice. He has “a sharp and brilliant mind alongside an impressive economic background”.
regarded for his handling of complex cartel investigations and monopolisation issues.
Axel Gutermuth of Arnold & Porter is “capable and a pleasure to work with”. He is “an absolute genius in handling mergers in the pharmaceutical space; he never seems to run out of steam”, comments one source.
According to leading market sources, Porter Elliott is “an excellent lawyer” with an exemplary merger control practice.
David Hull is an eminent EU competition lawyer with a practice that covers the breadth and depth of the sector.
Bernd Meyring is “the perfect lawyer” according to one peer. He regularly advises international corporations and institutions and has a particular facility for cartel matters.
Sources state that Kevin Coates possesses “great insights into the commis sion” and regularly advises clients on critical antitrust matters.
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Ingrid Vandenborre is regarded by peers as “very skilled and knowledgeable” and a lawyer who “pushes hard to get solutions for her clients”.
Paul Lugard is “a seasoned practitioner” who is “knowledgeable, especially with regard to competition law and technology”, say Antitrustsources.Law
Ulrich Soltész at Gleiss Lutz is “a seasoned practitioner doing high-profile cases involving competition law, as well as state aid law”. He is regarded as “one of the best in Brussels”.
Michael Rosenthal at Sullivan & Cromwell is “well known on the US scene” and is highly
With over 20 years of experience, Hans-Jörg Niemeyer of Hengeler Mueller offers clients broad competition expertise, including issues relating to state aid.
Arnold & Porter at Luc Gyselen is “a solid pair of hands and a great lawyer”. He “knows what the authorities are thinking very well”, comment interviewees.
Jon Turner QC is “one of the most in-de mand competition silks with the great ability to read a court and run a robust case”.
Ali Nikpay
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP London
Simon Pritchard Linklaters LLP London
Rod Carlton
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP London
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Slaughter and May London
Mark Hoskins QC is “exceptional” on competition damages and abuse of domi nance in the pharmaceutical industry.
Tim Ward QC receives widespread endorsement as “a very strong advocate who really stands out in the competition bar”. He is excellent due to his ability to “turn difficult issues over in his mind and come up with innovative solutions”.
Alex Potter has deep experience handling competition matters across industries including financial services and pharmaceuticals, where he is noted for his pragmatic approach.
Monckton Chambers
The “formidable” Simon Priddis is a well-regarded figure with an impressive track record in cartel investigations and merger control.
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Nicole Kar Linklaters LLP London
Sarah Ford QC is “excellent for phar maceutical matters” and regularly defends clients in damages cases arising from cartel investigations.
Lisa Wright earns impressive recom mendations for her market-leading public procurement and state aid practice.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP London
Daniel Beard QC is hailed as “razor-sharp and immensely capable but open-minded, likeable and collaborative”. According to peers, he is “a great tactician who under stands complex economics issues” and “a brilliant trial lawyer with very effective cross-examination skills”.
Slaughter and May
James Flynn QC’s “analytical skills are second to none, especially on competition matters”. His “first-rate analytical mind” is further applauded.
Philippe Chappatte
With over 25 years of experience, Richard Swallow has worked on a variety of competi tion matters for some of the most well-known corporations in the world.
Bertrand Louveaux comes highly recom mended for his top-tier work on competition investigations, litigation and merger control proceedings.
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The “highly rated” Robert O’Donoghue QC is “very knowledgeable, particularly on Ch.2 and A102 matters and market investi gations”. Interviewees further herald him as “a pleasure to work with”.
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP London
Kristina Nordlander
Slaughter and May London
James Aitken
Rod Carlton is “incredibly knowledge able” regarding competition matters. He has advised on some of the most complex merger cases in the pharmaceutical and media sectors.
Allen & Overy LLP London
Josh Holmes QC is described by market experts as “meticulous, well prepared and persuasive”. One of the many highlights of his exemplary practice is state aid appeal work in the UK and EU.
Anneli Howard QC is a well-regarded silk at the bar for competition proceedings and is highly sought-after for her deep expertise in regulatory appeals.
Philippe Chappatte possesses a broad practice, which encompasses a broad range of complex competition litigation proceedings.
specialist” Deirdre Trapp’s practice covers an array of contentious and non-contentious matters in the field. She is “steeped in the law”, say sources.
Maya Lester QC earns plaudits for “confronting the difficult questions head on”, with sources adding, “She gives pragmatic advice.”
James Aitken is described as “a tremendous competition lawyer” who is “a pleasure to work
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London
Marie Demetriou QC is hailed as “one of the very best” and is widely renowned as a prolific competition lawyer who has been standing counsel to the CMA since 2015.
Kim Dietzel Herbert Smith Freehills LLP London
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
David Aitman’s extensive knowledge and experience with regulatory bodies allows him to have a standout antitrust practice.
Nicholas Levy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP London
Claire Jeffs is “a real force on the leading matters in the industry and is able to distil the essential points at issue in complex proceed ings”. Another source adds, “She is clever and creative.”
Paula Riedel
Daniel Jowell QC is “really outstanding intellectually and a really great person to work with”. He regularly defends clients in high-profile and complex cases.
Paul Harris QC is a titan of the bar when it comes to competition matters. He is seasoned on cartel litigation cases, abuse of dominance and merger clearance.
David Bailey is “tremendous”, according to peers who praise his “absolutely fantastic technical knowledge of competition law”.
Isabel Taylor receives widespread plau dits from commentators for her prominent public procurement and merger control practice.
Bea Tormey is “an all-round impressive litigator” with an standout practice focusing on antitrust litigation.
Claire Jeffs
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Deirdre Trapp
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Ruchit Patel of Ropes & Gray is “an excellent lawyer”, heralded as “a hard-working lawyer who is pragmatic and a pleasure to work with”.
Becket McGrath with Euclid Law is hailed by peers as “one of the finest lawyers in England”. Key aspects of his practice include investigation defence, distribution and merger control.
Paul Gilbert is credited with an excel lent international reputation by observers, who praise of his work on merger control, anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominance investigations.
Ali Nikpay with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is “a really strong lawyer” who is “excellent” in his handling of high-profile competition cases.
Dominic Long is held in high esteem by peers, who recognise his excellence in complex multi-jurisdictional merger clear ances, abuse of dominance and cartel investigations,
“Strong all-round lawyer” Jackie Holland is “a great talent” with a distinguished anti trust enforcement, merger control and state aid practice.
Alasdair Balfour excels at advising and representing clients in multi-jurisdictional merger filings across a variety of industries.
Paula Riedel at Kirkland & Ellis International is “a seasoned practitioner” who is “very pragmatic and commercially oriented”. She impresses clients and peers alike with her market-leading expertise in multinational merger control, regulatory and antitrust matters.
Nigel Parr at Ashurst cuts a distinguished figure in the market as “a very strong lawyer, particularly on merger issues”.
Nicholas Levy is a UK and EU antitrust expert who garners immense praise from peers and clients alike.
Kassie Smith QC earns praise as a leader in competition litigation, with interviewees hailing her as “a pleasure to work with and strategically very sound”.
Kristina Nordlander is “a knowledgeable, trusted and responsive legal professional”. She comes highly regarded by peers for her “practical antitrust advice”.
Nicole Kar is highlighted as “one of the best in London” for her superb work on merger control investigations and proceedings.
Allen & Overy
Sources would not hesitate from recom mending Goodwin’s Sarah Jordan, thanks to her deep experience in antitrust counselling, cartels and compliance.
Linklaters
Samantha Mobley of Baker McKenzie is “exceptionally intelligent”, with sources adding, “She is brilliant at devising strategy” in antitrust and litigation proceedings.
Maurits Dolmans possesses “an ency clopaedic knowledge of competition law”. He is highly regarded for his work on crossborder merger clearance procedures.
Mark Friend receives recognition for being “very knowledgeable on competition law”, as well as on “allied regulatory matters”.
Christian Ahlborn is a well-regarded practitioner who has garnered a stellar reputation for his deep expertise in UK and European merger filings.
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Simon Pritchard is widely touted by markets experts as “a strong practitioner in complex merger work”.
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Meredith Pickford QC is highlighted as “a tremendous silk who is particularly strong in complex cases requiring a mastery of economics”. He is “strategic, thoughtful and great with clients”.
Kim Dietzel of Herbert Smith Freehills is “an impressive competition lawyer for follow-on damages“Excellentlitigation”.lawyer and good strategist”
Stephen Wisking is “very well known in competition litigation”.
Marc Israel of White & Case advises a roster of elite clients on complex merger clearance matters.
Philip Mansfield is “a very impressive competition lawyer” who is touted as “highly knowledgeable, strategic and pragmatic”.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
LEADING FIRMS
Axel Reidlinger
Schoenherr Attorneys At Law Vienna
Linklaters
Marc Besen is “an excellent competition lawyer” with a prestigious track record across the EU in all aspects of antitrust.
Daniela Seeliger is revered in the German market for her top-notch competition prac tice spanning cartels, merger control and abuse of dominance.
Gerhard Wiedemann ranks highly among peers thanks to his long-standing experience across the full spectrum of competition law matters.
Pierre Zelenko is a top name, recom mended for his vast experience in merger control, cartels, vertical restraints and damage claims for clients in a diverse range of business and industry sectors.
Linklaters LLP Düsseldorf
EMEA (EXCLUDING BRUSSELS AND LONDON)
Léna Sersiron is one of the leading names in the French market when it comes to complex competition matters in France and the EU.
Düsseldorf
Nicolas Kredel is renowned for his “profound knowledge” of competition law and is considered “a go-to name in Germany”.
Johanna Kübler
Marc Besen
Glade Michel Wirtz Düsseldorf
Markus M Wirtz
David Tayar possesses “impressive communications skills” and is singled out by peers as “reliable, professional and pleasant to deal with”.
Andreas Traugott stands out for his top-tier work in competition law, state aid and regu latory matters, both domestically and across the EU.
Olivier Billard Bredin Prat Paris
Commeo Rechtsanwälte PartGmb Frankfurt
Frank Röhling impresses market commentators with his prestigious track record in investigations, global mergers and foreign investment reviews.
Joachim Schütze is a go-to name when it comes to merger control and is particularly experienced in the telecoms, energy, media and healthcare sectors.
Tobias Klose focuses his expertise on European, German and international compe tition law and is lauded as “excellent in cartel matters”.
Onno Brouwer is a seasoned competi tion specialist with a wealth of experience in litigation proceedings, particularly in matters relating to Norway.
Anne Wachsmann is deemed a competi tion specialist thanks to her impressive work for clients in the automotive and pharmaceu tical sectors.
Winfred Knibbeler draws praise for his adept handling of high-profile cartel and abuse of dominance cases, as well as his “great way of dealing with big clients”.
Daniela Seeliger
Gleiss Lutz Munich
ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law Istanbul
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Düsseldorf
Jolling de Pree
Reidlinger Schatzmann Rechtsanwälte GmbH Vienna
Jaime Pérez-Bustamante is an accom plished competition lawyer with a welldeveloped practice in M&A transactions and cartel investigations.
Clifford Chance
Michael Dietrich is a highly esteemed
Thorsten Mäger
Ingo Brinker
Boris Wenger ranks prominently for his impressive competition practice, which sees him advise on cartel, merger control and antitrust damages claims.
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Andrew Ward
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek NV Amsterdam
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Carsten Grave impresses market respondents with his “excellent expertise in the energy sector and beyond” when it comes to complex international transactions.
Paloma Martínez-Lage is held in high esteem by peers, who highlight her regula tory knowledge and deep expertise in anti trust, particularly in the energy and telecoms sectors.
Clifford Chance
Malgorzata Szwaj is highlighted by market sources as “a real star” thanks to her expertise in Polish and European competition law.
Cuatrecasas Madrid
Peter Niggemann distinguishes himself as a go-to name for EU and German antitrust law and merger control.
Stephanie Pautke
Martin Klusmann is recognised as “a leading litigator in Germany” with “a sharp legal mind and invaluable experience”, particularly in the automotive and steel sectors.
Baker McKenzie
Fredrik Lowhagen focuses his first-rate practice on contentious and transactional matters in a broad range of industry sectors, with significant expertise in the Nordic region.
Hengeler Mueller
Jérôme Philippe excels in state aid, cartels and abuse of dominance and has notable experience in regulated sectors.
Thomas Lübbig is “very knowledgeable” when it comes to EU competition law, with notable expertise in state aid law, antitrust and merger control.
Uta Itzen is singled out by market respondents as “an excellent competition lawyer” who “knows what she is talking about”.
David Mamane Schellenberg Wittmer Zurich
Franz Urlesberger
Dominique Wagener is lauded as “a very experienced” lawyer who excels in cartel and antitrust matters, particularly in follow-on damages actions.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Mario Siragusa is held in high regard by market respondents, who enthuse that he is “one of the best competition lawyers in the country”.
Ellen Braun is “a key figure” in the market who is “well regarded in the noncontentious competition space”.
Stephanie Pautke is a renowned expert in distribution and contract-related antitrust matters, with a particular focus on the phar maceutical and consumer goods sectors.
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Italy
Axel Reidlinger of Reidlinger Schatzmann Rechtsanwälte is “one of the most senior and recognised competition lawyers in Austria” who “goes the extra mile for his clients”.
Ulrich Denzel is commended as “one of Germany’s finest competition lawyers” who maintains “an impressive client portfolio”.
Denmark
Jolling de Pree at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek NV is recognised as “one of the leaders in the field in the Netherlands” thanks to his in-depth experience in mergers, cartels and investigations.
Jörg-Martin Schultze is “an excellent competition lawyer” who is regularly sought after for his knowledge in merger control and competition-related distribution and contract law.
Ami Paanajärvi with Roschier Attorneys distinguishes herself as a top name in the market who regularly advises on antitrust matters and has experience before the European Commission and domestic compe tition authorities.
practitioner who is recognised by sources as “very knowledgeable, efficient and client oriented”.
Thorsten Mäger of Hengeler Mueller impresses peers as “one of the very best competition lawyers in Germany” for anti trust matters and follow-on damage claims litigation.
Kees Schillemans is highlighted by market sources as “a technically excellent lawyer” who is “very pragmatic and easy to work with”.
Johanna Kübler is “a well-seasoned expert on competition law” who impresses market sources with her work on German and European merger control.
Jens Munk Plum “ensures the right approach on all matters” thanks to his “very broad knowledge” of competition law.
Niko Hukkinen at Frontia Attorneys is held in high regard as “a clever and smooth” competition lawyer who is “very experienced in merger control”.
Florence Ninane is highly sought after by clients in the energy, finance and digital
Alf-Henrik Bischke is a prominent name in the market for M&A merger control matters, in addition to antitrust investigations and compliance.
and is singled out as “one of the best lawyers for Mayermergers”.Brown’s
Christian Horstkotte is acknowledged as “one of the key players in the market” who “provides a very high-quality service”.
sectors for her experience handling multi-ju risdictional merger notifications and litiga tion proceedings.
Christian Steinle is “a great pleasure to work with” and “an expert in the field” of international antitrust law.
Wolfgang Deselaers receives exten sive praise as “one of the best competition lawyers in Germany, especially in antitrust litigation matters”.
Petra Linsmeier is lauded as “one of Germany’s best competition lawyers” who frequently advises clients on all aspects of German and European antitrust law.
At Bredin Prat, Olivier Billard is “one of the best” in the market when it comes to merger control, state aid and the full spectrum of antitrust matters.
Markus Wirtz with Glade Michel Wirtz is widely endorsed as “a leading German antitrust lawyer” who delivers the “highest quality services in minimal time”.
Dirk Schroeder is a top name in the market with significant expertise in EU and German merger control, cartels and monopolies.
Vito Auricchio of Legance Avvocati Associati is a prominent name in the market thanks to his experience advising domestic and inter national companies on antitrust and regula tory matters.
Franz Urlesberger at Schoenherr is praised as “a top name in Austria” who is “very expe rienced in all aspects of antitrust law”.
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OTHER LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Wolfgang Bosch is “a top-notch” practi tioner who “gets things done” when it comes to antitrust and M&A transactions.
Martin André Dittmer with Gorrissen Federspiel is singled out as “a renowned competition specialist” who handles “a number of very large and high-profile cases”.
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Marie-Cécile Rameau is a marketleading competition lawyer who is highly sought after thanks to her strong track record in litigation at the national and EU levels.
Silke Möller garners plaudits as “metic ulous, efficient and very easy to work with”
Austria
Commeo
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Allen & Overy
Isabel Oest receives widespread endorse ments as “a highly committed antitrust lawyer” who is “super active on the international level” and “a pleasure to work with”.
France
Ingo Brinker is highlighted as “the best competition lawyer in Germany” who is “on top of everything digital in the Germanspeaking competition space”.
Bart Creve of Kromann Reumert is “on top of both Danish and EU competition law” according to peers, who further praise his “very practical mindset”.
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Finland
Claudio Tesauro with BonelliErede garners praise for his first-rate competition prac tice encompassing restrictive agree ments, abuse of dominance and market concentrations.
Stibbe’s Rein Wesseling is “a very thoughtful and thorough” practitioner who is “always a pleasure to work with”, particularly on high-profile abuse of dominance cases.
Börries Ahrens is highly praised as “a super quick thinker” whose “advice is always very thorough and spot on”.
Romina Polley is “an excellent team player” with “an impressive client base” who excels in German and European merger proceedings.
Jaime Folguera draws praise from market commentators for his top-notch practice spanning mergers, agreements, distribution and state aid.
Kristian Hugmark with Roschier Advokatbyrå is a deeply experienced compe tition lawyer who is “particularly strong on merger cases”.
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Uría Menéndez’s Patricia Vidal distinguishes herself as a go-to name for EU and Spanish competition law thanks to her experience before domestic and regional courts.
Sayenko Kharenko’s Maksym Nazarenko receives widespread endorsements as “a leading Ukrainian competition lawyer” who has “extensive experience in merger control issues”.
McCarthy Tétrault LLP Toronto
Gönenç Gürkaynak possesses “unmatched knowledge and experience in competition matters in Turkey”, with one source adding: “I have exceptional comfort relying on his judge ment in complex competition law issues.”
Marcus Glader with Advokatfirman Vinge is highlighted as “a really strong name in the market”, particularly concerning transac tions, abuse of dominance and litigation.
Richard G Parker
Turkey
Sullivan & Cromwell Washington, DC
Antonio Guerra is a prominent name in the Spanish market who is highly sought after by clients in a range of sectors, from banking to energy.
Jonathan Gleklen
Michael G Egge
Covington & Burling LLP Washington, DC
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP Washington, DC
Renata Hesse
Sweden
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Washington, DC
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP Washington, DC
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Washington, DC
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz New York
Deborah Salzberger
Global Elite Thought Leaders
A Neil Campbell McMillan LLP Toronto
David I Gelfand
Jeremy J Calsyn
Leah Brannon
Ruben Elkerbout at Stek is “a fantastic liti gator” who is held in high regard by market sources as “the go-to guy for Dutch compe tition law”.
Susana Cabrera Zaragoza with Garrigues stands out in the market thanks to her impressive track record on mergers, abuse of dominance and cartel investigations.
David Mamane at Schellenberg Wittmer is “an excellent competition lawyer” who provides “creative, actionable advice” and is a go-to practitioner for the full spectrum of competition matters.
Jason Gudofsky
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Washington, DC
Ilene Knable Gotts
Ukraine
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Washington, DC
Latham & Watkins LLP Washington, DC
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Washington, DC
Switzerland
At Niederer Kraft Frey, Nicolas Birkhäuser is held in high esteem as “one of the best” competition lawyers, particularly when it comes to transactional work in the IP sector.
Mario Strebel from CORE Attorneys is “a driven and client-orientated” lawyer with “great connections to the community and the Homburger’sauthorities”.
David P Wales
Deborah Feinstein
Spain
Andrew Ward of Cuatrecasas is singled out as “one of the finest antitrust lawyers Spain has to offer” thanks to his “pragmatic, clear and structured advice”.
Aleksander Stawicki at WKB Wierciński Kwieciński Baehr is lauded as “a very busi ness-savvy” competition specialist who is “a leader for energy-related issues”.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Washington, DC
McCarthy Tetrault Toronto
Brian A Facey
“one of the leading competition lawyers in the market with a long-standing practice”.
Scott Hammond
Amanda Reeves
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Toronto
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Latham & Watkins Washington, DC
Marcel Dietrich is “well known for his broad knowledge” of competition law and is praised as “clearly the best in Switzerland”.
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The “extremely knowledgeable” Mani Reinert at Bär & Karrer is recognised by peers as
Pedro Callol at Callol Coca & Asociados is singled out as “an outstanding competition lawyer” with over 20 years of experience in a range of regulatory, transactional and anti trust matters.
Poland
Elizabeth Prewitt garners plaudits for her outstanding antitrust practice, which regularly handles complex cross-border investigations.
Scott Sher is renowned as “a leading antitrust and competition lawyer” who impresses market sources with his “business-oriented advice”.
Daniel Swanson possesses over 25 years of experience in antitrust and competition law. His top-notch practice encompasses class actions, investigations and litigation.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Niall Lynch receives widespread endorsements for his first-rate competition practice, which sees him frequently advise on antitrust investigations, cartels and class actions.
David Gelfand sits among the foremost antitrust lawyers in the market thanks to his top-tier practice encompassing mergers, investigations and litigation.
Oliver Borgers is widely respected as one of the best competition lawyers in the Canadian market, particularly when it comes to antitrust, foreign investment and M&A.
Rachel Adcox receives widespread endorsements as “an outstanding litigator” who is “the best of the best” when it comes to multi-jurisdictional litigation.
Stephen Weissman stands out as “a super star” in the market who “works on some of the most challenging transactions”.
Casey Halladay is a market-leading practitioner who is singled out by sources as being “excellent at undertaking complex merger analysis”.
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Susan Creighton is a first-rate practi tioner with “a wealth of experience working with the U.S. competition enforcers, espe cially the FTC”.
McCarthy Tétrault
Canada
Jamillia Ferris is highly esteemed as “an excellent antitrust lawyer” who is “very knowledgeable and provides sound advice”.
Omar Wakil of Torys is a first-rate compe tition lawyer who is recognised for his pres tigious track record in mergers, cartels and abuse of dominance.
Mark Leddy is a well-established practi tioner who draws praise from market sources for his notable expertise in US and European antitrust law.
Scott Hammond is highly regarded as “a legend” in the competition field who is highlighted by peers as “the best criminal attorney out there”.
Daniel Wall is recognised by market sources as “an outstanding litigator” who excels in antitrust, government conduct and merger reviews.
Deborah Salzberger earns acclaim for her top-notch competition practice spanning antitrust and foreign investment law.
Michael Keeley is a well-renowned prac titioner with over 20 years of experience in high-value transactions and monopolies.
Ian Conner is a prominent lawyer who is highly sought after by clients in a diverse range of sectors, including pharmaceutical, technology, oil and gas and transport.
John Harkrider garners extensive praise as “a first-class lawyer” who “gets deals through quickly” for an impressive range of high-profile clients.
Jonathan Jacobson is singled out by peers as “one of the leading antitrust
Rachel Brass is identified as a go-to practitioner when it comes to investigations and litigation in the antitrust, labour and employment areas.
Richard Parker receives glowing praise as “one of the very best” in the market for his expertise in antitrust, merger clearance, class actions and government investigations.
OTHER LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Brian Facey with Blake, Cassels & Graydon is a deeply experienced practitioner who is regularly sought after for his expertise in strategic mergers, cartels and class actions.
Jason Gudofsky is held in high regard by peers as “the number one lawyer for mergers in Canada” who is “very proactive and busi ness friendly”.
Nikiforos Iatrou earns plaudits as “one of the leading Canadian competition lawyers, with a vast corporate and commercial litiga tion experience”.
Linda Plumpton receives endorsements for her strong track record in litigation involving a range of competition disputes.
A Neil Campbell with McMillan cuts a distin guished figure in competition law, particularly when it comes to antitrust, foreign invest ment and international trade involving regu lated industries.
Michael Egge is a market-leading anti trust and competition lawyer with over 30 years of experience defending clients in highvalue investigations.
Paul Collins from Stikeman Elliott is singled out by sources as “a terrific merger lawyer” and “an excellent collaborative adviser”.
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Amanda Reeves is held in high esteem by market sources, who highlight her as “a big name” who is “very practical in tough situations”.
litigators in the country”, thanks to his expert handling of high-profile litigations and investigations.
LEADING FIRMS
George Cary earns widespread acclaim as “a legend in the field” who regularly repre sents clients in complex merger and antitrust litigation.
Leah Brannon ranks highly among peers thanks to her experience in government investigations, merger review and antitrust matters.
Lisl Dunlop is “a great coordinator” who “shows an impressive work ethic” when it comes to antitrust matters in M&A and joint ventures.
Jeremy Calsyn excels in global cartel investigations and high-profile multi-juris dictional mergers.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Eric Stock is highly esteemed by peers as “an outstanding” competition lawyer who is “an expert on section two pharma matters”.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Al Pfeiffer is commended by market respondents for his top-notch practice dealing with civil antitrust and commercial disputes.
Mark Rosman is a well-recognised competition lawyer with extensive experience in antitrust, cartel and merger cases.
Marguerite Sullivan is a well-regarded practitioner with extensive experience advising on antitrust, mergers and complex cartel investigations.
Daniel Bitton is highlighted as “a sharp and dedicated practitioner” whose “passion and expertise in antitrust are apparent to all who have the privilege to work with him”.
Julie Soloway impresses market sources with her notable experience in cross-border mergers and antitrust matters.
Jonathan Gleklen is highlighted by peers as “a leading antitrust lawyer” with “a very high profile” in the market.
ASIA-PACIFIC
Sung Joo Yoon is a top-tier competition lawyer who is frequently sought after by
David Wales at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is a go-to antitrust lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in M&A, investigations and licensing.
Deborah Garza is deemed an antitrust specialist who excels in investigations, stra tegic transactions and litigation.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co New Delhi
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At Bennett Jones, Melanie Aitken is recog nised as “a top leader in Canada” when it comes to antitrust and competition litigation.
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Ilene Knable Gotts of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz is “a leading antitrust and legislation lawyer” who is “truly outstanding and very effective”.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s Christine Varney is deemed an antitrust specialist thanks to her incisive handling of investigations and regulatory approvals.
Youngjin Jung is held in high esteem by market sources thanks to his “deep under standing of antitrust laws” and “clear, prac tical, comprehensive and strategic guidance”.
Andrea Agathoklis Murino at Kirkland & Ellis is “an outstanding lawyer for mergers” and has “very good knowledge of US antitrust WilmerHale’slaws”.
Janet Hui JunHe LLP Beijing
John Taladay with Baker Botts is “an excel lent litigator” who is renowned for his work on mergers, investigations and antitrust.
Samir R Gandhi AZB & Partners Noida
Pallavi S Shroff
Jacqueline Downes Allens Sydney
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co New Delhi
Youngjin Jung Kim & Chang Seoul
Kim & Chang
Jung-Won Hyun impresses peers with her “unparalleled experience” and “ability to determine the best strategy” during mergers,
Kyoung Yeon Kim sits among the fore most competition lawyers in the market thanks to her experience in mergers, abuse of dominance and cartel matters.
Thomas Barnett with Covington & Burling is lauded by peers as “a super smart and truly exceptional antitrust lawyer”.
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Deborah Feinstein at Arnold & Porter is highly regarded as “one of the best merger lawyers in the country” with “very broad knowledge”. Peers further enthuse: “If you want to get your deals through, she is the best person”.
Richard Parker from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is singled out by sources as “one of the very best” in the market for the full spectrum of antitrust matters.
Joshua Soven at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is a renowned antitrust specialist who excels in litigation and inves tigations, particularly in complex strategic transactions.
Gilbert + Tobin Sydney
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investigations and cross-border transactions.
Renata Hesse of Sullivan & Cromwell is “one of the best in the US market” when it comes to antitrust, cartels and merger clearance.
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Ronan Harty from Davis Polk & Wardwell ranks highly among peers thanks to his antitrust practice, which sees him regularly advise clients in the pharmaceutical, finan cial services and retail sectors.
DMD Advocates New Delhi
Katherine Kay stands out in the market thanks to her skill in complex multi-jurisdic tional competition litigation.
LEADING FIRMS
Kenji Ito Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Tokyo
USA
Hartmut Schneider is a go-to name in the competition arena who impresses peers with his “industry knowl edge and deep understanding of the law”.
Gene Oh Kim is a distinguished practi tioner with a wealth of experience in high-pro file domestic and cross-border transactions.
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Elizabeth Avery Gilbert + Tobin Sydney
Jae-Hong (Jay) Ahn is a standout practi tioner in the market who excels in antitrust, competition and insurance matters.
In Seon Choi is a well-respected practi tioner who is “excellent at quickly identifying key issues in merger control matters”.
Alan Ryan with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a first-rate competition lawyer with over 30 years’ experience in mergers and abuse of dominance matters across Europe.
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Yusuke Nakano distinguishes himself as a go-to name for all antitrust matters, with notable expertise in cartel investigations and merger control.
multinational companies for his experience across investigations, unfair trade practices and cartels.
Ninette Dodoo is a key figure in the region with significant experience in merger control, antitrust investigations and foreign invest ment review.
Shweta Shroff Chopra is a favourite among clients who praise her experience in high-pro file merger and abuse of dominance cases.
Janet Hui is a well-established name in the competition field who possesses “a very strong and unique combination of analytical skill, practical approach and insight into the regulatory process”.
China
John Yong Ren from T & D Associates is a long-standing practitioner with a wealth of experience in the full spectrum of antitrust issues.
Peta Stevenson is held in high esteem as “a very gifted lawyer” who “has good sense of balance and rationality” when handling complicated antitrust cases.
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Naval Satarawala is one of the bestknown competition lawyers in the market thanks to his experience in contentious and non-contentious matters for a range of high-profile clients.
Marc Waha of Norton Rose Fulbright possesses over 20 years’ experience advising high-profile companies on antitrust regimes across the region.
Andrew Foster with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom stands out for his inter national practice, which sees him regularly advise on cross-border mergers, investiga tions and enforcement.
Etsuko Hara is a seasoned competition specialist who excels in international cartel cases and multi-jurisdictional merger filings.
The “outstanding” Caroline Coops impresses peers with her in-depth experi ence in all aspects of antitrust.
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Luke Woodward comes highly regarded for his “excellent industry knowledge” and “deep understanding of desired business outcomes and factors affecting the approach to litigation strategy”.
John Handoll is deemed a competition and regulatory specialist with over 40 years of experience in mergers, antitrust and abuse of dominance.
Manika Brar ranks as one of the go-to practitioners for cartel investigations and abuse of dominance cases.
Michael Han at Fangda Partners is a wellestablished name in the market who sources highlight as “a go-to contact for mergers in HoganChina”.Lovells
Natalie Yeung at Slaughter and May is hailed as “an all-round practitioner” who is “well-versed in competition investigations, merger control and cross-border competition enforcement issues”.
Susan Ning stands out for her top-tier work in all aspects of antitrust and has particular expertise in cybersecurity and data compliance.
Aparna Mehra is a well-established merger control specialist who is regularly sought after for her experience in highprofile cases.
At Allens, Jacqueline Downes is “a real leader in the competition law space” with in-depth understanding of the Australian market who “goes the extra mile to achieve the right outcome for a client”.
Fay Zhou at Linklaters garners plaudits for her stellar track-record advising Chinese and international clients on competition and regulatory matters.
Gauri Chhabra receives widespread acclaim for her skilful handling of a broad range of competition matters, from compli ance to cartel enforcement.
Kaori Yamada is “very strategic and forward thinking” and impresses peers with her “ability to think about the bigger picture” when it comes to competition law.
Australia
International’s Adrian Emch impresses peers with his multilingual prac tice which sees him adeptly handle merger control, cartel and abuse of dominance matters in the region.
Wayne Leach is regularly sought after by clients from a diverse range of industries for his skill in mergers, joint ventures and regulatory investigations.
Audrey Chen is a first-rate practitioner with a wealth of experience in domestic and international mergers.
Yingling Wei sits among the foremost competition lawyers in the Chinese market thanks to her extensive experience working across a range of sectors, from energy to real estate.
Elizabeth Avery of Gilbert + Tobin is held in high esteem as “the star of the Australian bar” who impresses peers and clients alike with her in-depth understanding of the ACCC.
Hideto Ishida is a long-standing fixture in the market who impresses market sources with his handling of the full gamut of compe tition matters.
Harman Singh Sandhu distinguishes himself as “a well-known competition lawyer” in the Indian market who is “a trusted advisor” on the full spectrum of competition matters.
Kee-Hong Chun is a top name, recom mended for his notable expertise in cartels, distribution arrangements and mergers.
The “fantastic” Kirsten Webb sits among the foremost competition lawyers in the market thanks to her strong track record in antitrust litigation.
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Ashurst’s Peter Armitage is a renowned and long-standing practitioner who is recognised by market sources as “one of the best compe tition law minds in the country”.
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Alastair Mordaunt is singled out as “the absolute best” for antitrust matters. One
Atsushi Yamada is a renowned competi tion specialist who impresses peers with his adept handling of investigations, follow-on litigation and merger filings.
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source adds: “If I need a deal done, I call Alastair”.
Hazel Yin is commended by sources as “very sensible and clear” while being “really on top of the substance of cases”.
Pallavi Shroff is a key name in the market thanks to her in-depth litigation experience across the full gamut of competition law matters.
India
Vivek Agarwal at DMD Advocates enjoys a fantastic reputation in the market where he is recognised for his “thorough subject knowl edge and practical approach in resolving the
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Japan
Kaoru Hattori of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu is “an outstanding” competition lawyer with a wealth of experience in the full gamut of antitrust matters.
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LATIN AMERICA
Mauricio Serralde Rodríguez’s impres sive practise focuses on pre-merger filings, investigations and administrative procedures.
Global Elite Thought Leaders
Someya, Tsuyoshi Ikeda is a standout name with broad industry knowl edge and experience handling complex inter national matters.
LEADING FIRMS
Sarah Keene with Russell McVeagh is distin guished as “one of the top lawyers” in New Zealand who is “able to analyse complex data sets and circumstances to provide pragmatic and clear legal advice”.
Singapore
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Paola Pugliese Demarest Advogados São Paulo
Daren Shiau of Allen & Gledhill is “a senior statesman” of the field who impresses market respondents with his regulatory knowledge as well as his “creativity and analytical skills”.
Ana Paula Martinez Levy & Salomão Advogados Brasília
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Cristianne Saccab Zarzur earns plaudits from market commentators as “a great lawyer” with a highly acclaimed antitrust practice.
Leonor Cordovil Grinberg Cordovil Advogados São Paulo
Marcelo Calliari TozziniFreire Advogados São Paulo
Carlos Mena Labarthe is hailed as “a leader” in the areas of constitutional proceedings and leniency applications.
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Renê Guilherme Medrado stands out for his top-tier domestic and international practice focusing on competition mandates,
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Scott Clements is singled out as “a key player in Singapore” who is “very knowledge able about the market and its regulators”.
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Luis Gerardo Garcia Santos Coy comes highly recommended by peers for possessing “a lot of experience” in antitrust and competition law.
Partners, Vinod Dhall is lauded by sources as “knowledgeable on the subject matter” and an authority on competition law and policy.
Mori Hamada & Matsumot’s Kenji Ito is “a very experienced practitioner” who peers describe as “diligent and dependable”.
Yusuke Nakano with Anderson Mori & Tomotsune ranks prominently for his competi tion practice, receiving wide-ranging endorse ments for his work on antitrust and mergers.
Andrew (Andy) Matthews at Matthews Law garners plaudits as “a very solid lawyer” who “really knows his stuff”, particularly when it comes to antitrust.
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Hideki Utsunomiya earns praise as “a leader in his field” who is “extremely knowl edgeable and strategic”.
Jorge Kargl is a brilliant litigator who frequently advises clients on merger control filings and investigations.
With over 25 years of experience, Leonardo Peres da Rocha e Silva is a bril liant litigator who frequently advises clients on a range of competition matters, including investigations on anticompetitive practices.
merger control proceedings and cartel investigations.Sourcesexpress considerable approval for José Alexandre Buaiz Neto, thanks to his wealth of experience in presenting investiga tions before CADE.
Kozo Kawai at Nishimura & Asahi ranks highly among peers thanks to his top-notch practice spanning antitrust and regulatory
The “excellent” Samir Gandhi of AZB & Partners is “a market-leading practitioner” who is highly sought after by technology and blue-chip companies for his in-depth compe tition expertise.
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Mariana Tavares de Araujo Levy & Salomão Advogados Brasília
Miguel del Pino with Marval O’Farrell Mairal is “a great lawyer” and “the star of the anti trust bar in Argentina”.
Ana Paula Martinez with Levy & Salomão Advogados is a dynamic force in the industry. She is highly esteemed for her top-drawer practice, which covers antitrust matters, as well as cartel investigations.
Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto with Pereira Neto Macedo Advogados “possesses deep knowledge on antitrust law and is a sound TozziniFreireadvisor”.
According to market commentators, Carlos Mena Labarthe is “a leading practitioner” in competition investigations and compliance matters.
Marcelo den Toom at Bomchil is “an excellent practitioner” with “a reliable and in-depth grasp of competition law”.
Mariana Tavares de Araujo is one of Brazil’s best-known figures in the market
Advogados, Paola Pugliese is “a great lawyer,” praised by market experts as being “very diligent” and “skilled at meshing together global and local competion law”.
The “excellent” Leonor Cordovil of Grinberg e Cordovil Advogados possesses “rich experi ence” and “deep knowledge of antitrust law”.
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OTHER LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Fernando Carreño of Von Wobeser y Sierra is the “best competition lawyer in Mexico” and “a top name for merger matters”.
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The “excellent” Marcio Dias Soares with Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados is “a strategic thinker” and is singled out for his exemplary merger control practice.
Julian Peña of Allende & Brea is one of Argentina’s leading antitrust lawyers with an expansive practice that covers the breadth of the field.
Santiago Del Rio is touted as “a rising star” who “understands competition and antitrust issues exceptionally well”.
Advogados’ Marcelo Calliari is singled out by peers and clients alike for his excellent work on complex merger control
Lorena Pavic of Carey is “an outstanding competition lawyer” with a stellar antitrust regulation and litigation practice.
Juan Cristóbal Gumucio with Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos has “a lot of experience and knowledge in antitrust matters”, with one peer adding, “He is a great professional in this area.”
Barbara Rosenberg at BMA - Barbosa Müssnich Aragão is “a big name” in the competition compliance space.
and is highly revered for her work on cartel investigations, merger control proceedings and leniency agreements negotiations.
Luis Gerardo Garcia Santos Coy at Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez SC possesses “a lot of experience” in complex pre-merger filings, constitutational proceedings and investigation administrative procedures.
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not to regulate prices in a market. This stance was ratified in the agency’s most recent case in 2021, when a mask distributor was inves tigated during the covid-19 pandemic. In this case, the SIC reaffirmed that it is not the role of the competition authority to regulate prices or mitigate price rises. Furthermore, the authority explained, punishing an agent for its ability to set high prices on its own compet itive merits would send the wrong signal to the market, discouraging companies from investing, innovating and competing.
The recent spikes in inflation worldwide have reignited debate amongst antitrust academics and policy makers with regards to the possible link between market power and price rises. This context puts the strength of certain antitrust institutions to the test, as they may be hard-pressed to shift their focus away from their core mandates (such as cartels and mergers), to act upon the political pressures that derive from rising inflation rates. This article focuses on this phenomenon for competition authorities in Latin America. We review the latest enforce ment actions of authorities in the region and consider to what extent these are directed at battling rising prices.
For jurisdictions in which the competition authorities do not have the possibility to sanction exploitative conduct, their link to excessive prices is more nuanced. For instance, following public discon tent about general price increases in Peru during the pandemic, Indecopi considered it neces sary to explicitly state that it lacked the legal authority to regulate market prices.
investigation of a producer and distributor of drinking water, the Chilean competition authority interpreted article 3 of Decree Law 211 as sanctioning excessive prices. The TDLC considered that compa nies could indeed breach competition law by setting excessive prices provided that the standard of dominance is met, and if the prices charged are proven to be grossly excessive. The Court asserted that, to prove this, all available standards of comparison must be used –including the analysis of the standard of market dominance as well as prices, costs, and profits – ultimately concluding that no insurmountable barriers to entry would prevent the offering of an
However,regulation.unfair prices cases have not been limited to regulated markets. In 2011, and 2014, Colombia’s SIC investigated exces sive pricing in the cattle and the aircraft fuel supply markets, respectively. In both cases, the authority emphasized the exceptional nature of this type of investigation, clarifying that the role of the competition authority is
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alternative services in the market, and hence dismissed the case.
Colombia presents an interesting case in that excessive pricing is prohibited under the “catch-all” general clause in article 1 of Law 155 of 1959 (although it is not considered an abuse of dominance per se). This has allowed the competition authority (SIC) to open 11 excessive pricing cases since 2008 and impose fines in nine of those. Notably, eight of these cases were conducted in the milk industry, an industry with regulated prices where the competition authority focused its excessive price analysis on compliance with this
Finally, the Brazilian competition authority (CADE) has assessed several exces sive pricing cases and held that excessive prices are an infringement of competition law only insofar as they serve exclusionary purposes. During covid, CADE dismissed an abusive price increase allegation against producers and distributors of hygiene prod ucts such as face masks and gels under similar premises. In the filing, CADE was explicit that it was not within its functions to intervene in the market and replace market agents to arbitrate the prices of goods and services.These rulings show that competition authorities share an understanding that punishing excessive prices should be an exceptional measure, requiring utmost consideration. Thus, using these powers to punish firms that react to inflationary pres sures by raising prices would go against their own guidance and precedent.
SHOULD ANTITRUST POLICY PLAY A ROLE IN FIGHTING INFLATION? CONSIDERATIONS FROM A LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
Overall, competition authorities in Latin America share important aspects, like the objective to preserve competition and keep a level playing field, rather than aiming for explicit welfare or macroeconomic objec tives, such as maintaining low prices. Still, an important difference relates to the inclu sion of excessive pricing by dominant firms as abusive conduct in some (but not all) compe tition laws, thereby allowing the authority to punish and control such pricing behavior.
In a similar vein, the competition authority in Chile (TDLC) has clearly expressed that the mere fact of charging excessive prices does not constitute an abuse of dominance, unless specific abusive conduct is proven. It further emphasized that it could not act as a regulator of final prices to consumers. In that sense, it has emphasized the need to minimize the error of wrongly and expensively sanctioning normal activities within a market, as this would affect dynamic efficiency and development.Inits2014
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Still, Cofece has used evidence of future price increases as a justification to object or to impose remedies to economic concen trations. For instance, this was the case in the merger between Soriana and Famsa in 2020, where the Authority found that the ex post concentration indices would likely lead to a significant increase in prices that would harm the competition process in the relevant
market, thus challenging the proposed merger.Under merger review proceedings, although the likelihood of future price increases in the affected industry is one of the factors analyzed to approve a merger, this does not extend to market-wide inflation. In fact, the price analysis made by competition authorities when evaluating a merger is based on the comparison of two scenarios: with and without the merger. In this way, the aim is not to identify price increases per se, but rather the effect of the merger on prices. In other words, although price effects are considered by competition authorities when reviewing mergers, these are limited to the future price pressures imposed by merging firms, and not to general inflationary pres sures on the sector or economy as a whole.
The analyzed experiences of the compe tition authorities in Latin America show that they are very cautious when it comes to judging or regulating a price. This concern is not in vain; every competition authority mentioned above recognizes the potential market distortions that would result from regulating
This is not to say that prices are not relevant for the Authority, as they play an important role in cartel cases. For instance, in the context of a cartel investigation in the market of liquid fuels in Chimbote in 2018, Indecopi explicitly recognized price parallelism and convergence as two of the main indicators used by competition authorities to identify suchParallelismagreements.and convergence of prices are indeed generally used by competi tion authorities in Latin America to detect possible cartels, but they would not be suffi cient by themselves to prove the existence of an anticompetitive agreement. This is espe cially important in an inflationary environ ment, given that firms face simultaneous cost hikes that naturally result in parallel trends in prices. This is captured by the same 2018 ruling by Indecopi, where it clarified that the existence of parallel or converging prices must be assessed in tandem with other factors before reaching a conclusion about a collusiveSimilarly,hypothesis.Mexico’s Cofece considers that markets can only operate properly when prices are set freely, as they reflect scarcity and the value given by consumers to goods and services. In its guide for the Evaluation of
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Consideringprices.the above, it should not be the role of competition authorities to inter vene in the market to combat inflation. This is particularly important in the current market context, where the combination of the covid-19 pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, and the overall disruption of global supply chains have resulted in an inflationary global economy. This is not to say that competition authorities must ignore price increases that are due to market abuses or the consolida tion of market power through anticompetitive behavior. Their role is to protect competition and guarantee, within the boundary of the law, that market prices are the product of effective competition among agents oper ating in a given market.
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Regulation from a Competition Perspective, the authority recognizes that a maximum price may not protect the consumer or even recognize the companies’ operating costs.
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In oversimplified terms, competition policy is the art of weighing the costs of intervention against the costs of reduced competition. Both in merger control and in conduct cases, authorities are faced with two competing alternatives: blocking private decisions on allocation that may bring positive outcomes to society, or allowing changes to the market landscape that may result in tamer compe tition and hence in a reduction of its benefits to society.Under the usual consumerist approach, the stand-in for society is the consumer. In other words, the main goal of competition authorities and antitrust analysis is gener ally to protect consumer welfare. Fiercer competition will compel firms to be more innovative, to provide better products and services and at lower prices. Nevertheless,
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In merger control, the cost of interven tion may be to deprive consumers of the benefits of a (potentially) better payoff. The analysis is usually concerned mainly with the remaining rivalry left in the market, and whether the resulting concentration will increase the likelihood of an increase in prices. In cases where the remaining
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SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE ROLE OF EFFICIENCIES IN MERGER ANALYSIS
in most markets the optimal number of firms competing is not “hundreds”: economies of scale, integration between activities, effi ciencies of scope, synergy between assets and many other factors often determine that, in the real world of oligopolies, fewer competitors may bring better results than more. Fierce competition is not always about quantity, and good competition policy does not defend competitors – it ought to be focused on the competitive process.
CADE, the Brazilian competition authority, sets a number of conditions for synergies to be even considered in its analysis:
This does not mean that a laxer standard should be applied in order to approve
So much as to the still prevailing consumer welfare approach. But if we are to analyze competition avoiding price-effect-on ly-game-in-town scrutiny, dynamic oligopo listic efficiencies should be considered. If the bar is to be raised as to market compe tition analysis, the same approach as the one applied to efficiencies should welcome a wider and not so strict scrutiny. In other words, in a dynamic world, dynamic efficien cies should not be dismissed on the grounds of being speculative and non-quantifiable. Giving more weight to the anticompetitive side of the scale requires putting a little more weight on the side of efficiencies as well.
Very few transactions should be approved on the sole basis of the expected synergies. If the remaining competition is not enough to restrain the resulting firm’s strategies after the transaction, significant synergies between the merging parties should be required to outweigh the risks to consumer welfare. But a transparent and complete assessment is one that considers the extent to which reasonably established cost econ omies and quality gains will impact how the resulting firm operates.
A question that may arise from this argu ment is that if efficiencies are not enough to dismiss the competitive risks of a merger, why is it relevant whether they are consid ered or not? The main reason is that under standing the economic value of a merger and identifying the potential for increased effi ciency is paramount to designing antitrust remedies that will not mitigate the risks to competition at the cost of the potential bene fits expected from the transaction.
entrenched that the gains expected from the merger would presumably not be shared with consumers. The problem with that assump tion is twofold: first, save in some fringe theoretical cases, a reduction in costs will always create an incentive to reduce prices. This is true even for a monopolist, as a prof it-maximizing monopolist is also restrained by marginal cost when determining price. Second, efficiency analysis is mostly neces sary in cases where the remaining compe tition in the market is not enough by itself to obviate the risk of an increase in prices. If
In a dynamic world, dynamic speculativedismissedshouldefficienciesnotbeonthegroundsofbeingandnon-quantifiable
Likewise, remaining rivalry (or the lack thereof) should not prevent consideration of actual cost economies and synergies in merger analysis. In many cases, efficien cies have been disregarded by CADE in acknowledgment of the argument that the position of the resulting firm would be so
remaining competition becomes a key factor in deciding whether the cost economies of a synergy will be shared with consumers, the benefits of the merger will rarely be prop erly weighed against its risks. Although it is possible that reduced competition is the prevalent force in most mergers, the impact of the efficiencies should not be discounted prima facie
• efficiencies must be specific to the trans action, and not achievable by means less harmful to competition in two years or less;
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• efficiencies should be likely and verifiable: merging parties need to demonstrate how they plan to achieve the alleged synergies, with a preference for quantifiable gains. The authority disregards gains considered to be speculative;
competition is not enough to fully dispel the perceived risks to competition, an assess ment of expected synergies and efficiencies that could be achieved through the trans action may be required in order to verify whether its benefits are enough to justify nonintervention.Becauseantitrust scrutiny is requested specifically for transactions in which there is a perceived risk to consumer welfare, the “burden of proof” required from merging firms to justify their claim of the efficiencies they will achieve by integrating their activi ties tends to be high. This is an international standard, and in Brazil it is no different.
• efficiencies can only be considered if they are shared with consumers. In other words, efficiencies perceived to be only to the benefit of the merging firms do not meet the requirements for consideration.
borderline mergers, but that reasonably defined efficiencies should at least be factored into the analysis, even if the conclu sion is that they are not enough to justify unconditional approval.
Even though these conditions are reason able, their application should not raise the bar so high that almost no efficiency from any merger is considered in the analysis of horizontal concentrations. An example of how application of the above conditions can be too rigid, is that efficiencies backed by the studies merging firms conduct for their own internal assessment of the expected benefits of a deal often fail to meet the “likely and verifiable” requirement.
CEG is a leading global economic consultancy with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, London, Melbourne, Rotterdam, Sydney and Zürich. We apply economic and financial analysis to address competition, regulation and damages.Formed in 2007, CEG is repeatedly listed among the world’s leading competition economics practices by the Global Competition Review. Our highly experienced team is consistently rated by peers and clients in the list of recommended experts.Wehave substantial experience in applying economics to competition law proceedings. Our economists provide cogent economic analysis and empirical work in cartel proceedings, damages and litigation, abuse of dominance, mergers and state aid. We have calculated competition intellectual property and commercial damages in more than 20 countries. CEG has a track record of working on leading, large and complex competition and commercial damages cases and has won substantial demonstrable results for our (claimant and defence) clients.
Using up-to-date economic and finance theory and quantitative techniques, CEG economists prepare expert reports, provide input into client submissions, advise on case strategy, and provide testimony before courts, arbitral tribunals, and competition agencies.
CEG has in-depth expertise across a broad spectrum of industries including energy, TMT, financial services, banking, consumer goods, entertainment, health care, pharma and transportation.
The firm assigns specific lawyers and trademark paralegals to individual client trademark portfolios so that the client knows the team’s members and the team becomes very familiar with the client’s business and trademarks.
The firm handles and manages numerous oppositions, cancellations, litigations and infringement actions throughout the world. When possible, and to keep costs down, the firm makes every effort to help clients resolve disputes prior to litigation and takes advantage of mediation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution procedures.
As a leader in the copyright bar, Cowan has extensive experience with the full range of copyright prosecution, termi nation and litigation matters. For over 30 years, its attorneys have prepared the Annual Review of Copyright Cases published by the Copyright Society of the USA.
Utility patents and design patents
Members of Cowan’s patent group have scientific and technical backgrounds in electronics, electrical and mechanical engineering; computer hardware and software; and organic chemistry and materials science. They advise clients on a wide range of domestic and international utility and design patents, trade secrets, e-commerce and infringement issues, as well as transactional matters. When litigation is necessary, Cowan’s patent attorneys and litigation group join forces to form a formidable team enforcing and defending infringement claims.
Cowan’s excellence was recognised by the most recent editions of US News & World Report – National Tier 1 in the areas of copyright law, information technology law, patent litigation and trademark law; The Legal 500 United States – National Tier 1 for trademark litigation and copyright, and WTR 1000 – The Gold Band of New York firms for trademark enforcement and litigation as well as for trademark prosecution and strategy.
For 65 years, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman has been recognised as one of the best firms in the fields of IP counselling, clearance, prosecution, maintenance, transactions and disputes. Its lawyers assist clients with an unswerving commit ment to quality and responsiveness on matters in the United States and around the world through its strong and close network of local counsel. The firm has extensive experience representing clients in a broad range of industries and maintains long-standing and collaborative relationships with its dedicated clients.
Domain names, websites and social media names
Trademarks and trade dress
Cowan develops practical policies as to which domain names, websites and social media names merit objection, monitoring or no action. The firm monitors, investigates and analyses potential claims, sends cease-and-desist and take-down notices, and works with registrars and other service providers to resolve disputes and remove content without the need for formal action. When necessary, Cowan files and pursues domain name dispute proceedings. It has handled hundreds of domain name proceedings under the UDRP, and under similar systems for country code top-level domain names.
Judgement and experience are key to an excellent trademark practice. Cowan has an unusually deep bench of experienced lawyers. Many of its lawyers have practised in the field for over 20 years and the firm provides practical, cost-effective advice on complex issues.
Copyrights
Cowan’s Copyright, Patent and Advertising Law practices supplement its trademark practice. Additionally, the firm is unique in having a customs, international trade and regulatory compliance practice, which provides the full range of country of origin, advocacy, compliance and counselling services, helps clients qualify for tariff and tax reductions in import and export markets, and provides tools for combatting counterfeits.
Swiss Economics is a leading consultancy for economic advice in the areas of competition, regulation, and arbitration. We provide our clients with reliable advice and clear expert testimony based on rigorous economic analysis. For this purpose, we use established methods from microeconomics, industrial organisation, econometrics, and corporate finance that allow us to distill the key messages from complex economic issues.
Our services are sought after by leading law firms, multinational corporations, public agencies and international associations for support in diverse matters such as antitrust and merger control proceedings, economic regulation, or damages claims. We bring long-standing expertise in a wide range of sectors, such as transport, telecom, energy, health, financial services, or retail. Our experts have prepared evidence and given testimony in front of authorities, arbitration tribunals, and national courts.
Swiss Economics is fully employee-owned and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Editorial policy and selection criteria
Nominees have been selected based on comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practitioners worldwide.
Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.
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Charles Coorey Gilbert + Tobin
other key clients include Virgin Australia, Coca-Cola European Partners, Tesla, BlueScope Steel, Kimberly-Clark, Amplifon, SiteMinder and Smeg, as well as private equity firms Quadrant, Carlyle, Pacific Equity Partners, KKR, TPG and Five V. Charles is the Chair of the International Bar Association’s Data Working Group. He also co-au thors the Australia and New Zealand chapter of the American Bar Association’s International
Peter Armitage has over 35 years’ experience in competition and consumer protection law. He is recognised as an expert in complex merger clear ances and defending clients in investigations and legal actions by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Peers and clients say: “Charles has deep knowledge of his practice area”
Peers and clients say: “She is smart and provides practical advice” ”Her exceptional technical skills are complemented by deep commercial and market ”Elizabethknowledge”isafantastic lawyer”
Peter’s clients include companies with some of the most complex and wide-ranging competition issues including Google, Aurizon and GFG Alliance/ LibertyPeterSteel.isrecognised as a leading competition practitioner by Who’s Who Legal, Best Lawyers Australia, IFLR1000, Chambers and The Legal 500 where he is one of only 20 ranked ‘Leading individuals’.
In mergers, Elizabeth recently achieved a significant win for her client, NSW Ports, success fully defending an ACCC prosecution alleging the terms of the privatisation of Port Botany and Port Kembla were anticompetitive. In addition to complex competition and economic issues, the matter involved significant public policy issues impacting the State’s ability to privatise its assets. NSW Ports won at trial, and the appeal to the Full Federal Court has just been heard, with judgment pending.
”Mr Coorey responds thoughtfully and commercially to matters, and is always seeking to achieve the best outcome”
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Elizabeth Avery Gilbert + Tobin
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”He has a calm demeanour and is a good listener”
Charles is recognised as a leading competition lawyer in Australia by external peer and client surveys including Who’s Who Legal, Best Lawyers and The Legal 500. Clients say of Charles “I would not dream of briefing any other competition lawyer”, “he is excellent”, has “phenomenal client service ethics”, “knows our business better than any other external lawyer” and “is fearless.”
Charles recently advised Afterpay Limited on the A$39 billion acquisition by Square, Inc. (Square) – the largest public M&A deal in Australia’s history, obtained phase 1 ACCC clearance for the sale of Australia’s most popular boutique beer, “Stone & Wood”, to Lion, advising one of Australia’s largest financial institutions, Macquarie Bank, on its $2.3 billion take private acquisition of Bingo Industries, and acting for US private equity firm BDT and its port folio companies Culligan Water and Zip Industries on the Australian aspects of its global acquisition of its competitor Waterlogic and its Australian subsidiary
Peers and clients say: “Peter is a long standing lawyer with a great reputation” ”He is one of the best competition law minds in the “Petercountry”iscalm, strategic and wise”
Charles is deeply involved in matters span ning all areas of competition law, but has devel oped a leading reputation in enforcement matters involving the Australian Consumer Law; and acting for various private equity clients on a broad range of merger clearance applications.
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Peter is a trusted adviser to major corporations in sectors including financial services, manufac turing, transport, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, IT, entertainment and media, consumer and retail, mining and resources and waste management.
Elizabeth heads the Gilbert + Tobin Competition & Regulation Group. She brings a depth of over 20 years’ experience as competition/antitrust lawyer, including seven years in New York, contributing significant comparative breadth to her ability to advise strategically on major multi-jurisdictional mergers, litigation and investigations.
In the past year, she successfully achieved clearance for Microsoft’s US$20 billion acquisi tion of Nuance Communications, Viatris’ acqui sition of the Upjohn portfolio from Pfizer (US$12 billion) (subject to remedies); Elanco’s purchase of the animal health business of Bayer ($11 billion) (subject to remedies).
Elizabeth is Microsoft’s lead competition adviser in Australia, having recently achieved unconditional clearance in relation to its $20 billion acquisition of Nuance Communications, she is currently advising in relation to its US$68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and the ACCC Digital Platform Services Inquiry, among otherShematters.provides ongoing advice to a range of other clients including ASX Ltd, AnheuserBusch InBev, BlueScope, Graincorp, Maersk, and Westpac.
She graduated from the University of Sydney in Arts and Law (hons), and with an LLM from NYU, where she won the antitrust prize.
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Rosannah has a strong mergers and investiga tions practice, covering the retail, energy, banking, telecommunications, automotive, industrial sectors among others. Rosannah is experienced in conducting compliance audits and developing compliance programs and has particular exper tise assisting large consumer facing businesses to effectively manage regulatory risk.
Jacqueline is Chair of the competition and consumer law committee of the Law Council of Australia. She has assisted in preparing submis sions, meeting with government and attending parliamentary inquiries on matters of competi tion policy. Jacqueline is regularly asked to speak at conferences and seminars on competition law issues, including attending the ICN as an ACCC-nominated NGA, and at the American Bar Association.
Fiona Crosbie Allens
Fiona maintains a very active practice and enjoys an outstanding reputation for her work in complex global and domestic merger clearances, competition investigations, and defence work in ACCC prosecutions and infrastructure access matters. She has won many seminal competition cases including cases that: settled the application of legal professional privilege when responding to regulatory notices; clarified the law on ‘anti-com petitive purpose’ in a leading market power case for Pfizer; and recently established the importance of investment markets and network economics in a court-contested merger for Vodafone, described by the ACCC as the most important merger litigation in a decade.Fionais the former Chair of the competition and consumer committee of the Law Council of Australia. She is ranked as a leading competition practitioner in Chambers Asia-Pacific (band 1), The Asia-Pacific Legal 500 (hall of fame ranking), Best Lawyers and Global Competition Review (band 1), which has identified Fiona as a leading woman in antitrust globally in successive publications.
Jacqueline also advises various media and tele communications clients, recently acting for News Corp and Match.com as part of the ACCC’s Digital Advertising and Digital Platform Services Inquiries.
Rosannah Healy Allens
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Peers and clients say: “She has strong technical knowledge in competition and consumer law”
Fiona is a member of Chief Executive Women and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Fiona was appointed as a part-time member of the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority in 2022. She also serves on the Board of the Children’s Medical Research Institute where she chairs the Audit and Risk Committee and sits on the Digital Strategy Committee.
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Rosannah worked with Coles and energy sector industry bodies, the Australian Energy Council and the Australian Energy Market Operator to secure ACCC authorisations to coop erate with competitors for public benefit during the covid-19 pandemic. Rosannah also led the ACCC investigation and subsequent proceedings regarding Vocus’ internet speeds and network performance and led the Federal Court proceed ings brought by the Australian Energy Regulator alleging breaches of hardship protections for customers under the National Energy Retail Rules and National Energy Retail Law.
Rosannah is a ‘go to’ adviser in ACCC market inquiries, acting for major industry participants in the ACCC’s Dairy Inquiry, Residential Mortgage Inquiry, Foreign Exchange Inquiry, Home Loans Inquiry and Perishable Goods Inquiry.
”She has the ability to make a complex area of the law ”Rosannah’ssimple”breadth of knowledge in this area is impressive”
Jacqueline Downes Allens
”A very experienced competition lawyer”
Jacqueline is the head of the national competition and consumer group at Allens and has over 20 years’ experience in competition and consumer law. Clients rely on her advice and experience in dealing with the ACCC and other regulators to resolve significant competition and consumer law issues for their businesses.
Level 37 101 Collins Street Melbourne, VIC 3000 Tel: +61 3 9613 rosannah.healy@allens.com.au8421www.allens.com.au
”She has deep technical knowledge, and has significant experience working in a large number of complex competition matters”
Peers and clients say: “Fiona is a highly regarded practitioner”
Jacqueline has particular expertise in mergers and is well known for achieving clearance of high profile and complex mergers, domestic and interna tional. Most recently, Jacqueline acted for Salesforce. com in its acquisition of Slack Technologies, Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the sale of its general insurance business to Hollard Group, QAF Ltd on the sale of Rivalea Holdings to JBS and Pacific Equity Partners in the sale of Lifehealthcare.
Deutsche Bank Place 126 Phillip Street Sydney, NSW 2000 Tel: +61 2 9230 fiona.crosbie@allens.com.au4383www.allens.com.au
Peers and clients say: “Jacqueline is a very skilled competition lawyer who has the ability to relay complex concepts in commercial terms” ”Her extensive experience with competition law allows her to give pragmatic and prac tical ”Sheadvice”isareal leader in the competition law space and goes the extra mile to achieve the right outcome for the client”
Fiona is a pre-eminent Australian competition practitioner. She is the former head of Allens’ competition and consumer group, and now serves as the firm’s elected Chair.
Rosannah is an active member of the Competition and Consumer Committee of the Business Law Section of the Business Council of Australia, and regularly contributes to law reform and policy.Recently,
Deutsche Bank Place 126 Phillip Street Sydney, NSW 2000 Tel: +61 2 9230 jacqueline.downes@allens.com.au4850www.allens.com.au
Jacqueline also has extensive experience acting for clients involved in competition and consumer law investigations and enforcement. Jacqueline acted for Peters Ice Cream in the ACCC’s proceedings against it for alleged anti-com petitive exclusive distribution arrangements – a rare exclusive dealing case in Australia.
Peers and clients say: “She has an extremely sharp intellect combined with astute strategic skills in litigation”
Prior to joining the firm, Peter worked as a senior officer at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, where he developed strong relation ships with key economic regulators. He is a member of the competition and consumer committee of the Law Council of Australia. He is also a regular non-gov ernmental adviser to the International Competition Network of competition authorities.
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Ruth won the Glasgow University medal in law. She completed a doctorate in legal philos ophy at Balliol College, Oxford University, lectured at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was a visiting Scholar at Columbia University. She has been a Visiting Fellow at New College and Harris Manchester College, LevelOxford.15,
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the
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Peter specialises in challenging competition law, consumer and regulatory issues. His expertise encompasses transactional advice, merger clear ances, joint ventures and collaborations, access to infrastructure, and enforcement responses and defence.Peter has extensive experience in a wide range of sectors, and has advised leading organisations such as Asahi, BHP, Fortescue, Euro Garages, Nippon Paint, One Rail, Air Asia, Assa Abloy, PEXA, Nutreco, BUPA, Alinta, North West Shelf Venture, Chevron, George Weston Foods, Wesfarmers, Vale, Orica and Reckitt.
Tel: +61 2 9376 ruth.higgins@banco.net.au0602www.banco.net.au
”An excellent competition specialist and counsel”
”Ruth is one of the leading competition silks in the country”
Peter McDonald leads and coordinates the compe tition team for Allen & Overy in the APAC region.
85 Castlereagh Street Sydney, NSW 2000 Tel: +61 2 9373 peter.mcdonald@allenovery.com7582www.allenovery.com
Ruth C A Higgins SC Banco Chambers
Ruth Higgins SC is a commercial silk specialising in competition law, class actions, energy, media, corporate criminal and corporations matters. She has been included in Best Lawyers Australia since 2008, in Chambers Global since 2011, and is listed in Doyle’s Guide as a preeminent silk in competition law, with listings also commercial litigation, insol vency law, and media and telecommunications law.
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Peers and clients say: “A fantastic competition lawyer” ”He has been involved in some of the leading cases” ”Peter is a top-tier practitioner”
In competition law, Ruth has successfully acted for TPG, Pacific National and AGL in contested merger proceedings against the ACCC, for the ACCC in the High Court in Flight Centre, for the Commonwealth in the CMFEU agreed civil penal ties case, and for the CDPP in the first two modern criminal cartel prosecutions. She has acted for Apple, Cement Australia, the Australian Jockey Club, NSW Ports, Hutchinson and others in Part IV proceedings.Inconsumer proceedings, Ruth has acted for entities including Google, Telstra, Vodafone, Qantas, Woolworths and Westpac.
Ruth is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, an Assistant General Editor of the Australian Law Journal , a director and Treasurer of the Bar Association of NSW and a director of the Law Council of Australia. She is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International and Commercial Arbitration.Sheis the author of various books, including: The Moral Limits of Law (OUP, 2004).
Peter McDonald Allen & Overy LLP
Peter is recognised as a leading individual by major directories, including WWL: Competition, Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500: Asia Pacific and IFLR1000 Chambers states that clients acclaim him as “an excellent, very practical lawyer”, noted both for his “commercial thinking and results-fo cused advice” and for his “genuine desire to build strong relationships with his clients”. IFLR1000 praises Peter’s “practical advice on complex competition law”. WWL reports that Peter is “a distinguished competition specialist in the Australian market whose expertise extends to the wider Asia-Pacific region”, with quoted sources commending his “great technical skills”.
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Luke is Gilbert + Tobin’s most senior competition partner, with an unparalleled breadth and depth of professional experience. He joined G+T in 2000 from the ACCC, where he was head of the Enforcement Division and General Counsel and formerly head of the Mergers and Asset Sales Branch.
Luke directly leads market transforming matters and provides strategic leadership and insight for a wide range of clients across the substantial breadth of the G+T competition prac tice. His practice covers complex transaction clearance, including opposed merger clearance reviews; cartel and broader competition law inves tigations and defence; and infrastructure access and regulation.Lukeisregularly sought out for strategic advice in complex industry-changing matters. He is a key strategic legal adviser to BlueScope, BPay, CSR, EG Fuels, Expedia, Orica, Patrick Container Terminals, Paypal, Meta, Qube, Telstra and Virgin Australia, as well as deal sponsors Macquarie, PEP and Carlyle. He’s a go to Australian partner on complex global matters for international counsel, working closely with Freshfields, Cleary Gottlieb, Arnold and Porter, Wilmer Hale and Gibson Dunn.
Peers and clients say: “Luke has very strong strategic and analytical skills”
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Peers and clients say: “Elvira is diligent and “Shedependable”isagreatresource on cartel cases”
Elvira has published widely on competition issues and is a frequent speaker on competition law. She teaches advanced EU competition law at the College of Europe.
With a background in intellectual property litigation, Carolyn has over 20 years of litiga tion and regulatory investigations experience. She has represented clients on a wide range of issues including brand protection and advertising disputes, complex cartel investigations and pros ecutions including leniency and immunity appli cations and dawn raids. She has also extensively advised on risk management and compliance issues across a wide range of industries.
For over 15 years, Luke has consistently been ranked as one of Australia’s leading competition and regulatory lawyers across recognised legal directories. He was named as “Lawyer of the Year – Competition Law” in Best Lawyers Australia 2021 and recognised as “the ultimate strategist” by a client who notes: “He knows the law, knows the ACCC inside and out and knows the best way to approach a matter from a strategic perspective; it’s a real value-add.” He is also a Whos Who Legal Global Elite Thought Leader for the third year in a row.
”He has excellent industry knowledge”
Elvira Aliende Rodriguez is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s Brussels office where her practice focuses on Spanish and EU competition law.
Elvira has in-depth knowledge of working before the European Commission and regularly appears in proceedings before the European courts in Luxembourg. She also appears before the national competition authorities of several member
Carolyn is ranked as a leading competition practitioner in Chambers Asia-Pacific (band 3) and is recognised by her clients as “very knowledge able” and noted for her commerciality and “quick and pragmatic responses”.Deutsche Bank Place
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Carolyn is a leading competition and regulatory lawyer with more than 25 years’ experience advising on competition issues in Australia and overseas. She advises clients on complex merger clearances, joint ventures, collaboration arrangements and conduct issues under the restrictive trade practices provisions and the Australian Consumer Law. Most recently, Carolyn advised on the proposed global acquisition by Veolia Environnement S.A. of Suez S.A.
Carolyn Oddie Allens
”He possesses a deep understanding of desired business outcomes and factors affecting the approach to litigation strategy”
Elvira advises clients across a range of sectors, including air transport, chemicals, telecommu nications, energy, pharmaceuticals, steel, hotel accommodation, textiles and financial services. She acts on merger control issues in international transactions, including Phase II investigations and joint ventures. Elvira has extensive experience in advising clients on article 101 (restrictive agree ments) and the equivalent provisions under Spanish law. She has also participated in state aid proce dures and in article 102 (abuse of dominance) cases before the EU competition authorities.
Rue Guimard 9 Brussels, 1040 Tel: +32 2 500 elvira.alienderodriguez@shearman.com9837www.shearman.com
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Elvira Aliende Rodriguez
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Peers and clients say: “A standout name in ”WellAustralia”known for her knowledge of abuse of dominance”
200 Barangaroo Avenue Sydney, NSW 2000 Tel: +61 2 9263 lwoodward@gtlaw.com.au4014www.gtlaw.com.au
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Carolyn is active in competition policy devel opment in the ASEAN region and has experience working in South East Asia. She is an officer of the International Bar Association’s antitrust committee and an active member of the Law Council of Australia’s competition and consumer law committee.Carolynalso has significant experience advising global healthcare and pharmaceutical players and is the sector leader of the firm’s healthcare sector. Carolyn’s significant work in this sector includes advising Sanofi-Aventis and Merck Sharpe & Dohme on a range of competition and regulatory issues.
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Luke Woodward Gilbert + Tobin
Elvirastates.regularly defends clients in international cartel investigations and follow-on litigation cases.
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Peers and clients say: “Dirk has ample experience in antitrust matters. He is an extremely thorough practitioner” “He is very successful due to his hands on approach and impeccable knowledge of the law”
Denis Fosselard Ashurst LLP
”He is a very well known figure in the market” ”Denis is extremely knowledgeable about competition law”
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
Dirk is recognised by the major legal directo ries for his expertise in both EU and Belgian compe tition law. Clients quoted in Chambers Europe (2022) highlight that he is “super-pragmatic and works really smoothly as part of an integrated team across different practice areas” and “comfortable in a litigation scenario, has a good business mind and understands what is relevant for the client”.
Denis Fosselard is the head of Ashurst LLP’s Brussels office and leads the office competition law practice. Denis is a dual qualified lawyer (Brussels and Rome Bar) and speaks fluent, French, English and Italian.Herepresents clients in EU and national (Italian, Belgian, …) investigations relating to restrictive agreements or abuse of dominant position He is also very active in merger control cases both before the EU Commission and national competition authorities and deals with the FDI aspects of transactions. He is also represents clients in state aid cases and litigation, including the defence of follow-on damages claims. Denis has particular experience in the FMG, energy (including oil and gas), telecommunications, trans port and chemical sectors.
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Before joining the firm, Dirk worked as an assistant at the Institute for European Law at Leuven University. From 1994 to 1997, he was a law clerk at the General Court in Luxembourg. He teaches judicial protection in the EU at the Free University of Brussels.
Avenue Louise, 489 Brussels, B-1050 Tel: +32 2 641 denis.fosselard@ashurst.com9976www.ashurst.com
Peers and clients say: “Denis is an outstanding lawyer with exceptional crossborder capabilities”
Dirk Arts Allen & Overy LLP
Dirk Arts is a partner in Allen & Overy LLP’s Brussels office and leads the EU and Belgian competition law practice. He represents clients in EU and Belgian cartel investigations; multi-juris dictional, EU and Belgian merger control cases; state aid cases; and litigation, including the defence of follow-on damages claims. Dirk has particular experience in the energy, media, chemical, retail and automobile sectors.
Recent cases include advising ENGIE in relation to its JV with the group Stellantis in the e-mobility sector, SYNNEX in relation to its merger with Tech Data, Apax in relation to its acquisition of Lutech and Rodenstock, Iliad in relation to its challenge of the EU Commission decision clearing the merger of Telecom Italia and Vodafone TowerCo operations in Italy and two Italian steel companies in relation to their appeal before the General Court of a cartel decision re-adopted for a third time after it had been annulled already twice, Babcock in rela tion to its appeal before Italian courts of the AGCM’s decision fining companies active in the helicopter services
Denissector.isrecognized by the major legal directo ries for his expertise in both EU and Italian compe tition law. Chambers Europe (2020) says: “Denis Fosselard is praised by clients for his “exceptional competence in antitrust matters”” and [the fact that he is] “very to the point, effective, and his advice is always very clear”.
Tel: +32 2 780 dirk.arts@allenovery.com2924www.allenovery.com
Tom Pick is a partner in Fieldfisher’s Brussels office where he leads the competition team. Tom, who is German-qualified, has been practising compe tition law in Brussels for over 20 years focusing on all aspects of EU and German competition law, including behavioural antitrust and antitrust liti gation, merger control, cartels and state aid. He also has significant experience in advising clients on competition compliance matters and policies, in particular the set-up of internal competition compliance programmes and the running of related competition law and dawn raid trainings. His work also involves regularly representing clients on competition matters before the European courts in Luxembourg and before civil courts in Germany, as well as before the European Commission in Brussels and national competition authorities. His specific sector expertise includes energy, transport, food retail, chemicals, tobacco products, consumer electronics, steel and agrochemicals.
Tom Pick Fieldfisher
His expertise in antitrust covers all aspects of EU/German antitrust law, including advising on distribution, specialisation, R&D, commerciali sation, production, joint-venture and technology licensing agreements, as well as advising on abuse of dominance scenarios. A particular focus of his work over the past five to six years has been advising on the interface between antitrust and IP and, particularly, disputes in the area of licensing of standard essential patents.
As far as merger control is concerned, he represents notifying parties or targets, and he acts on behalf of third-party intervenors, in merger control proceedings before the EU Commission and national competition authorities, including advising on and handling/coordinating multi-jurisdictional filings.As regards cartels, he is regularly called upon to advise clients in cartel investigations conducted by the European Commission and/or national competition authorities, including advising on leni ency, settlement and the handling of private cartel damages claims and strategies.
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Marc Reysen
Tel: +32 2 742 70 tom.pick@fieldfisher.com50www.fieldfisher.com
Peers and clients say: “Very friendly and great to work with”
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Dr Marc Reysen LLM is the founder of Reysen Competition Law (REYCOL), a competition boutique that reintroduces a sense of personal commitment to the provision of competition law advice.
Reflecting his clients’ needs in a globalising world, Marc’s practice also has a special focus on developing compliance strategies for regional and global businesses. For this purpose, he works closely with a number of other law firms that provide specific local input to develop approaches that are in line with a client’s global policies and accommodate local specificities.
Tom is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences and has published numerous articles on European and German competition law. He sits on the editorial board of renowned publica tion World Competition – Law and Economics Review and is the Europe editor of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law. He is a member of the German Bar, the Brussels Bar (E-List), the Belgian-German Lawyers’ Association and the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht (an association of German-speaking lawyers). Tom speaks German, English and FieldfisherFrench.LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in London with a particular focus on technology, life sciences, finance and financial services, and energy and natural resources. The firm has more than 1,550 people working across 25 offices providing highly commercial advice based on an in-depth understanding of clients’ needs.
Marc holds law degrees from the universities of Bonn and Edinburgh. He is the immediate past co-chair of the Antitrust Section of the International Bar Association (IBA) as well as chairing their Advisory Committee.
Boulevard Louis Schmidtlaan,Brussels,29/151040
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Marc is applying REYCOL’s signature hands-on approach throughout his work: it impacts how he advises owners, investors and buyers on merger control matters in ways that go beyond the filling out of forms. It makes him roll up his sleeves to help clients face the multi-jurisdictional challenges of devising global distribution systems. It gives him a sense of context when he uses down-to-earth language to explain that successful antitrust compliance depends on ethical business values as well as legal tools.
Tel: +49 160 9330 mreysen@rcaa.eu2105www.rcaa.eu
Jürgen Schindler
Peers and clients say: “Marc is an outstanding lawyer and is highly recom mended for the complex competition law ”Hematters”has excellent multi-jurisdictional competition law experience” ”Marc is excellent on merger control in the EU and Germany”
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Jürgen Schindler is a partner in Allen & Overy LLP’s Brussels office and co-head of Allen & Overy LLP’s global antitrust practice. He divides his time between the Brussels and Hamburg offices.
Earlier in his career, Jürgen completed an internship with DG Competition and worked as an international fellow at the US Federal Trade Commission. He is a non-governmental adviser to the International Competition Network, where he regularly contributes to the merger and cartel working groups. He is also a frequent speaker at international conferences.
Jürgen has extensive experience advising clients on complex international, EU and German merger control, cartel, and abuse of dominance cases. His practice encompasses a broad range of sectors, including high-tech, energy, shipping and transport, raw materials, chemicals, finance, consumer and industrial products. In addition, Jürgen litigates before the European courts in Luxembourg.Hisrecent experience includes advising in the European Commission’s high-profile investigation into the Android mobile operating system and regu larly acting for Saudi Aramco and General Electric in merger control cases.
Tervurenlaan 268A avenue de Brussels,Tervueren1150
Tel: +32 2 780 29 juergen.schindler@allenovery.com20www.allenovery.com
Jürgen is admitted to practise in Frankfurt and New York, and is listed as a European lawyer at the Brussels Bar. He speaks German, English and French.Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
Peers and clients say: “Jürgen is a fantastic ”Helawyer”isa pleasure to work with”
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”Tom is as solid as it gets and is well known in the Brussels market”
In the area of state aid, he regularly counsels public authorities, private parties (including third parties) on all aspects of EU state aid laws and regulations.Tomgraduated from the University of Bonn and during his studies also spent a year at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He earned a postgrad uate degree (LLM) from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where his studies focused on European constitutional and substantive issues. Tom joined Fieldfisher at the end of 2016 after almost 10 years as a partner in leading UK, US and Belgian firms, including a period of almost two years where he ran his own competition boutique in Brussels.
Brussels-based, Marc advises clients on various issues of European and German competi tion law and represents clients before the European Commission and Germany’s Federal Cartel Office. Besides his focus on merger control and general advisory work, Marc has advised and defended clients in a number of cartel investigations at national and international level, being willing to defend a client just as much as cooperating with authorities where this is called for.
“A terrific merger lawyer”
5300 Commerce Court West 199 Bay Street Toronto, M5L 1B9 Tel: +1 416 869 pcollins@stikeman.com5577www.stikeman.com
Paul Collins Stikeman Elliott LLP
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“He is an excellent collaborative adviser”
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Peers and clients say: “Denis is recognised as an elite practitioner in the Competition field with vast knowledge and experience”
Peers and clients say: “He is considered by many to be one of the best competition attorneys in Canada”
Denis has pleaded a great number of seminal cases before the EU Court of Justice, as well as numerous cases before national courts of multiple EU Member States and arbitration courts.
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He is recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global Chambers Canada Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Legal 500 Canada, Lexpert/ American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and Best Lawyers in Canada
Peers and clients say: “Paul has unmatched competition experience”
Denis is in addition a professor in EU competi tion law at both the Free University Brussels (ULB) and the College of Europe in Bruges, and has written several books and articles in legal reviews on EU and competition law related 489
Over the last decades, he has represented major corporates in a great number of high level cases in competition law matters, both Article 101 and 102 and mergers. He also represented numerous states, as well as beneficiaries and complainants before the European Commission and European Court of Justice in State aid matters.
”He knows the law, the policy and the “Thepracticalities”mostknowledgeable, practical and expe rienced member of Canada’s competition bar”
Lawson advises a wide variety of Canadian and multinational corporations on all aspects of federal regulatory law and policy. This includes foreign investment legislation, anti-dumping and international trade, telecommunications law and Heritage Canada issues, in addition to competition/ antitrust matters. He is particularly noted for his experience as an advisor on the regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Lawson is a graduate of the Directors’ Education Program of the Institute of Corporate Directors and is highly experienced in matters of corporate governance.
Lawson was appointed by C.D. Howe Institute as a Senior Fellow specializing in regulatory and competition policy and has been appointed to their National Council which advises the Institute’s research program. He was honoured with Lexpert’s Zenith Award: Celebrating Leadership Through Change, recognizing lawyers who have been change-agents in their profession for forty or more years. While in private practice, Lawson has consistently been ranked in national and interna tional surveys as one of Canada’s and the world’s leading counsel on regulatory
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Denis is a partner in the Competition and EU law department and specialises in competition, state aid, trade and regulatory law and EU law generally.
Tel: +32 2 641 denis.waelbroeck@ashurst.com9963www.ashurst.com
Paul is a member of the Canadian Bar Association (Competition Law Section) and the Antitrust Law Sections of the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
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Lawson A W Hunter QC Stikeman Elliott LLP
Lawson Hunter is one of Canada’s renowned regula tory and government relations counsel, drawing on a wide range of experience in business, government and private practice. Most recently, Lawson was awarded the Order of Canada for his distinguished career in government, business and private practice as one of the country’s leading competition and anti trust lawyers. Formerly Canada’s senior civil servant in charge of competition policy and enforcement, Lawson was primarily responsible for the drafting of the federal Competition Act. Prior to his role as counsel at Stikeman Elliott, Lawson headed the firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Group.
”He is practical whilst also being accurate”
Denis Waelbroeck Ashurst LLP
Paul Collins is senior counsel and former Head of the Competition & Foreign Investment Group in Toronto. He practises corporate and commercial law, specializing in competition law, providing both transactional and general compliance advice, as well as advice regarding marketing and advertising law. Paul is a leading adviser for foreign investors in connection with the Investment Canada Act. His practice puts him in constant contact with the federal Competition Bureau and the Investment Review Division of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. He is a past chair of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Bar Association Competition Law Section.
From May 2010 to May 2012, Paul served as a Senior Deputy Commissioner with the Competition Bureau where, as the head of the Mergers Branch, he was instrumental in the Bureau’s review of high-profile corporate transactions and develop ment of key Bureau policies arising from the signif icant amendments to the Competition Act introduced in 2009. Such Bureau policies/guidelines include the revised Merger Enforcement Guidelines published in October 2011, as well as the Merger Review Process Guidelines, the Fee and Service Standards Handbook for Mergers and Merger-Related Matters, and several Interpretation Guidelines. During his tenure with the Bureau, Paul was a member of the Senior Management Committee.
”He is an extremely strong lawyer”
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She is recognized internationally by Chambers Global and Global Canada . She is consistently recommended by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, and is named in Best Lawyers in Canada, Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Legal 500 Canada,Global Competition Review’s GCR 100 for competition law, and Global Competition Review’s Women in Antitrust
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Susan is past Chair of the Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association; Chair of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Competition Law Review; Vice-Chair of the International Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law and is a member of the CD Howe Institute’s Competition Policy Council.
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“She holds expert knowledge and a client-centric disposition”
Katherine Kay is a litigation partner and head of the firm’s competition litigation practice. Katherine is known as a dynamic and highly effective courtroom advocate with a razor-sharp strategic approach. She is a first call for “bet the farm” litigation and crisis management situations, often working very closely with counsel in the US, Europe and other jurisdictions, as well as quarterbacking internal and external Katherine’sinvestigations.practiceconcentrates on complex commercial litigation often involving the interplay between regulatory, civil and criminal law regimes, and across multiple jurisdictions. Areas of focus include competition, product liability, class actions, international law, securities, corruption and other white-collar cases. Her competition litigation prac tice includes a broad range of cases dealing with criminal defence work, class and other civil actions, mergers, abuse of dominance and other reviewable matters before the Competition Tribunal.
5300 Commerce Court West 199 Bay Street Toronto, M5L 1B9
Tel: +1 416 869 kkay@stikeman.com5507www.stikeman.com
Michael Kilby Stikeman Elliott LLP
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Peers and clients say: “Katherine is an excellent lawyer and is one of Canada’s leading defence counsel”
Michael Kilby is a partner and Head of the Competition & Foreign Investment Group at Stikeman Elliott LLP. He is a leading advisor on matters relating to Canadian competition and foreign investment laws, and has wide-ranging experience in complex merger reviews, foreign investment approvals, national security reviews, pricing and distribution practices, misleading advertising, anti-corruption and related counsel ling matters across a broad spectrum of industries.
Michael has been involved in some of the most important, precedent-setting foreign acqui sitions in modern Canadian history, including securing approvals in the CNOOC / Nexen, Zayo / Allstream, Hasbro / Entertainment One, Petrochina / Athabasca Oil Sands and Vale / Inco transactions and the successful defence by Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan of the hostile bid from BHP Billiton. He has extensive experience advising clients in allocating and managing regulatory risk, throughout industries including technology, consumer goods, media, pharmaceuticals, manu facturing, oil and gas, chemicals, transportation and telecommunications.
Katherine is described in Chambers Canada as having “a strategic sense of practicality that is rare even among excellent lawyers” and “a wealth of experience in the defence of class actions involving competition, securities, product liability and consumer matters”, and in Chambers Global as “virtually insurmountable in the area of competi tion litigation” with “an encyclopedic knowledge of the antitrust practice in Canada”. She is described by Global Competition Review as “arguably the best competition litigator Canada has to offer”. Her many recognitions include Canadian Competition Litigator of the Year (2014, 2016, 2018, 2019), and she is consistently featured in Best Lawyers in Canada; Lexpert/American Lawyer’s Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory; Chambers Global; Chambers Canada; The Legal 500 Canada; and Benchmark Canada
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“A top litigator in the sector”
“She is a very strong competition lawyer”
He is recognized internationally as a leading lawyer by Global Competition Review Chambers Global Chambers Canada Legal 500 Canada Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and Best Lawyers in Canada. In 2014, Michael was named as one of Lexpert’s “Rising Stars”, which recognizes leading lawyers under 40.
Peers and clients say: “A fantastic lawyer, both technically and practically”
“Has a very good grasp of competition law”
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“Michael holds excellent knowledge and is really responsive”
Susan Hutton is a senior partner in Stikeman Elliott’s Competition & Foreign Investment Group. She provides Competition Act and Investment Canada Act advice in respect of complex mergers and acquisitions and has led the approval process for numerous high-profile transactions including Willis Towers Watson/Gallagher, TC Energy/Ontario Power Generation, Bayer/Elanco, Bayer/Monsanto, Motorola/Google and Lenovo/IBM . She provides clients with ongoing compliance advice and has guided clients through civil and criminal investiga tions, as well as complaints under the Competition Act.
Peers and clients say: “Susan is an expert in her field who consistently provides sound competition law advice across an array of sectors and jurisdictions”
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5300 Commerce Court West 199 Bay Street Toronto, M5L 1B9 Tel: +1 416 869 mkilby@stikeman.com5282www.stikeman.com
Michael is a former Chair of the Foreign Investment Review Committee and a former Chair of the Marketing Practices Committee of the Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He is a member of both the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee and the Pricing Conduct Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law.
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Yong Bai has unrivalled experience and knowl edge of the competition law landscape within China, based on his prior experience working within MOFCOM, followed by over 10 years’ experience advising domestic and multinational corporations on antitrust and regulatory matters. He is familiar with the working practices of the various antitrust enforcement authorities in China. In addition, over the past couple of years he has also worked in the firm’s London and Brussels offices, where he gained first-hand experience of the practice of competition law in these jurisdictions. As a result, Yong Bai is one of the very few lawyers in the market able to give Chinese clients advice on global competition law issues from a Chinese perspective.
“has deep understanding of China’s antitrust enforcement regime and broad knowledge about the markets”, “has a business-driven mindset and profound knowledge of antitrust law”, “under stands our organisation very well and has a lot of industry knowledge”, “well acquainted with anti trust law”, having “a very good approach towards client services”, and “is very well plugged into the market”. In addition, Yong Bai was named a “rising star of competition” by China Law and Practice in 2014, a “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500 in 2021 and one of China’s Elite 100 Lawyers (Foreign Firm) – a member of the A-List of legal profession for China-related business by China Business Law Journal in 2021.
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Yong Bai covers a wide range of work and industry types, including high-profile global deals such as Pfizer’s US$160 billion merger with Allergan; SABIC’s US$69.1 billion sale of its 70 per cent stake to Saudi Aramco; GE’s US$32 billion merger of its oil and gas business with Baker Hughes; GE’s US$21.4 billion disposal of its biopharma business to Danaher; and CocaCola’s £3.9 billion acquisition of Costa. He has also advised on inbound investment into China for multinational corporations such as Coca-Cola, GE, Henkel and Carrefour, and PE funds such as CVC, Partners Group, Permira and Affinity; restructuring of Chinese state-owned enterprises, such as the merger between Sinochem and ChemChina, the merger between China Shipbuilding Corporation and China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, and China Baowu Steel Group’s acquisition of Magang Group and Taiyuan Iron & Steel Group, which all involved numerous filings across multiple juris dictions; outbound deals by Chinese investors, such as COFCO’s acquisitions of Noble Agri and
Feedback reflects that he “is very well known in the mainland”, “can connect locally and give us that localised advice”, “regularly assists on high-stakes antitrust matters”, “has won plaudits for his deep knowledge of Chinese regulations and his robust MOFCOM experience”, “is deemed key for handling high-profile transactions at a day-to-day level”, “offers expertise gained in London and Brussels and is especially valued by clients and peers for his knowledge of MOFCOM procedures”,
Peers and clients say: “A seasoned antitrust practitioner with great experience in dealing with complex cases for non-Chinese clients” ”Yong Bai is among the strongest competition lawyers in China”
Yong Bai is partner in Clifford Chance’s antitrust practice and head of the antitrust practice in Greater China. Before joining the firm, he worked for the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (MOFCOM). He is a member of the firm’s healthcare and life sciences group; its consumer goods and retail group; and its telecom munications, media and technology group.
Nidera, which involved approximately 30 filings across multiple jurisdictions, and Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group’s acquisition of Robert Bosch GmbH’s global starter and generator busi ness, which involved seven filings across multiple jurisdictions; antitrust investigations and leniency applications for clients in the pharmaceutical, logistics, technology and auto parts sectors; and compliance and regulatory work for regional and globalYongclients.Baifrequently participates in conferences and initiatives alongside academics and officials. He is a member of the translation committee for The Economic Assessment of Mergers under European Competition Law (Cambridge University Press and Law Press China, 2017), and the author of “Single-Firm Conduct in China” in the Handbook on Antitrust in Technology Industries (American Bar Association, 2017). He is co-author of the chapter on antitrust and the pharmaceutical sector in China Antitrust Law Journal (2017); a chapter on Chinese companies’ navigation of outbound investment in China’s Anti-Monopoly Law – The First Five Years (Wolters Kluwer, 2013); A practical Guide to Chinese Merger Control and A Practical Guide to Antitrust Investigations in China (Thomson Reuters). He is also a member of the Clifford Chance team appointed by MOFCOM to advise on the rules and form for the simplified review mechanism.
Yong Bai has been recognised by WWL as a “leading lawyers” from 2018 to 2021, and a “future leader” in 2017. Yong Bai has been recognised by Chambers Asia-Pacific as an “associate to watch” (2012-2015), and as “up and coming” (2016-2018), and is also listed as a leading lawyer (2019 to 2022).
Floor 33, China World Tower 1 No 1 Jianguomenwai Dajie Beijing, 100004 Tel: yong.bai@cliffordchance.com+861065352286www.cliffordchance.com
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Peers and clients say: “Michael Gu comes highly recommended”
In his practice, Dr Zhan excels in particular with antitrust filings, investigations, and litigation. In regard to concentration antitrust filings, he has assisted many multinational and state-owned enter prises (SOEs) in China and has secured approvals for all transactions he has represented thus far. Dr. Zhan has handled many remedy cases within MOFCOM and SAMR. In regard to antitrust investiga tions, Dr Zhan has represented both Chinese-funded and foreign-funded companies and has successful experience in dealing with antitrust investigations, including dawn raids in response to monopoly agree ments or abuse of dominant positions. For instance, he has represented respondents in China’s first anti trust investigation against price cartels and conse quently obtained a suspension of the investigation. In addition, Dr Zhan has successfully defended clients in antitrust litigation before Chinese courts, many of them related to SEPs.
Michael has authored the China chapter of The Public Competition Enforcement Review for more than 12 years. He is a frequent contributor to many legal journals such as Competition Policy International, Competition Policy Research, China Business Law Journal , Asia Law Business and leading finance magazine Cai Xin. His publications regarding China antitrust law are well received, widely reproduced and quoted. Michael is also an expert engaged by LexisNexis and Law Business Research. In addition, Michael is a co-managing editor of the China Antitrust Law Journal published by LexisNexis
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”He is highly regarded for his merger work”
Peers and clients say: “He has a deep understanding of the main issues in compe tition law”
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As a widely recognized antitrust and competition lawyer, Dr Zhan Hao is partner at AnJie’s antitrust and competition group, one of the biggest antitrust teams in China. The scope of the antitrust legal practice covers merger antitrust filing, defense of antitrust investigation, antitrust private litigation, antitrust compliance, antitrust analysis from an economic perspective, and anti-unfair competi tion issues, serving clients in the semiconductor, automobile, cell phone, energy, finance, machinery, electronics, textile, aviation, IT, food and consumer goods sectors.
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”Very strong on litigation in the antitrust area”
Michael mainly serves Fortune 500 companies, large state-owned enterprises and leading equity funds. Michael has actively participated in the drafting process of the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law and its implementing rules. He has submitted numerous suggestions and comments to the relevant legis lative authorities.
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Dr Zhan is an arbitrator with CIETAC, BAC, HIAC, KLRCA, HKIAC and AICAC, vice chair of the ICC China Antitrust Committee, and Regional Ambassador for China, ICC Competition Committee.
Michael Gu is a founding partner of AnJie Law Firm based in Beijing, having previously been a prin cipal competition partner at another leading PRC firm. Michael also spent five years at the competi tion practices of Linklaters and Allen & Overy. His work covers all types of antitrust matters in China, including merger filings, antitrust investigations, antitrust civil litigations and compliance audit and trainings. Michael Gu has a strong background in both legal education and economic research. He studied EU competition law under the EU–China legal and judicial co-operation programme, sponsored by the PRC Ministry of Justice and the European Commission, from 2002 to 2003. He also has a master’s degree from the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University.
Liangmaqiao Diplomatic Office Building No. 19 Dongfangdonglu Chaoyang District Beijing, 100600 Tel: +86 10 8567 zhanhao@anjielaw.com5988www.anjielaw.com
As a competition law pioneer in China, Michael has secured merger clearance from the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC (MOFCOM) and state administration for market regulation for numerous transactions involving a variety of industries (eg, healthcare, pharmaceutical, electronics, manufac turing, consumer products, telecommunications, transportation, energy, financial service). In 2008, Michael successfully submitted the first merger filing under the Anti-Monopoly Law which also received the first approval from the anti-monopoly bureau of the MOFCOM. Michael has also repre sented clients in high-profile antitrust investigation proceedings, antitrust civil litigations and leniency programmes. In addition, Michael frequently provides strategic preventive advice to clients with respect to the potential antitrust risks asso ciated with distribution agreements, IP licensing, restrictive measures, exclusive dealings, marketing events, pricing and bidding process, etc.
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For his antitrust practice, Dr Zhan is classed Band 1 by Chambers and Partners, with which he has been ranked as a “competition/antitrust lawyer” sinceCurrently,2009.
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Michael has been recognised as a leading lawyer in antitrust/competition by many interna tional guides including Chambers and Partners, WWL, The Legal 500, AsiaLaw and Global Competition Review. In particular, Michael was named as one of the top 100 lawyers in China by China Business Law Journal in 2016. He was also named as a Future Leader of competition law by WWL in 2017.
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Susan Ning King & Wood Mallesons
Peers and clients say: “I see Susan regularly in DC and Brussels - she’s very active internationally” clear leader in the Chinese market”
With the implementation of the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) on August 1, 2008, Susan Ning began to fully engage in the area of AML and anti-unfair competition law. Her practice in this area mainly includes merger control filings, antitrust investiga tions, compliance and antitrust litigation.
Susan Ning is a highly regarded lawyer at home and abroad. Susan Ning currently serves as Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Competition, Co-Chair of ICC Task Force on Competition and Digital Economy, Chair of GCR Connect Law Leaders Asia-Pacific, and Advisory Board member of the New Champions Community of the World Economic Forum. She previously served as the Deputy Director of the Antitrust Committee of the All China Lawyers Association. During her tenure as the first Chair of the Antitrust Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, Susan actively participated in various activities of the International Antitrust Forum. Her articles on the AML have been published by renowned international compe tition law journals and publications, including Euromoney’s Competition Review. She also wrote the Practice Guide to China Antimonopoly Law (published by CCH). She won Antitrust Writing Award by Concurrences in 2019.
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KWM officially established its Antitrust Group in 2003, which was the first specialist practice divi sion in this area among Chinese law firms. Prior to the enactment of the AML in 2008, Susan Ning took a very active role in counselling the Chinese government on the drafting of the AML. Since the enactment of the AML, she continued to be actively involved in drafting regulations, measures for implementation and guidelines accompanying the AML. Through these consultations and her extensive experiences in helping clients to deal with antitrust investigations, Susan Ning built and maintained a close working relationship with the antitrust authorities in China.
Since 2003, Susan Ning and her team have undertaken hundreds of merger control filings on behalf of clients, mostly consisting of multina tional corporations from industries such as chem icals and manufacturing, semiconductors, luxury goods, transportation, hotels, automobiles, high technology, finance, trade, telecommunications, energy and the internet. Susan Ning’s represent ative projects include: representing Toyota and Panasonic in the merger filing of the establishment of a joint venture by Toyota and Panasonic in the area of electric car batteries; representing Praxair in the merger filing of the mrger between Praxair and Linde; assisting Pfizer in the merger filing of Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth; representing Nokia in the merger filing of Microsoft’s acquisition of equipment and services of Nokia.
Susan Ning and her team are highly acclaimed in the Chinese antitrust practice. She has been included into the Global Competition Review’ list of top international law practitioners for many years and continuously ranked as Band 1 leading compe tition lawyer in Asia Pacific by top international legal directories such as Chambers Asia Pacific and Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Susan Ning was listed in Who’s Who Legal as a leading professional in Competition 2022. Thanks to her commendable efforts, KWM has been recognized as a top-tier law firm for its competition practice by Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, IFLR1000 and asialaw Profiles for manySusanyears.Ning holds a Bachelor of Law from Peking University and a Master in Law from McGill University. She was admitted as a Chinese lawyer in 1988. Susan Ning’s working languages are English and
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Susan Ning has also assisted a large number of clients in confidential investigations involving cartel conducts, resale price maintenance and abuse of dominance and advised on several land mark litigation cases in relation to monopoly agree ments and abuse of dominance. Notable cases include representing a multinational smelting company on a complex antitrust dispute involving three different types of legal proceedings (interna tional arbitration for IP infringement, civil antitrust litigation and administrative antitrust investigation), and assisting client in settlement with plaintiffs, and eventually in receiving no penalties from NDRC; representing Qihoo in launching a lawsuit against Tencent with respect to abuse of dominance (which is the first antitrust litigation in China to involve comprehensive analysis of competition law and the first competition case to be heard by the Supreme People’s Court). Besides, Susan Ning has also advised a number of clients on the establishing and improving of their antitrust and competition compliance systems and internal audits.
Susan Ning joined King & Wood Mallesons in 1995. She is a senior partner and head of the Compliance Group. Susan Ning’s main areas of practice include antitrust and competition law, cybersecurity and data compliance. In addition, she also practices international trade and investment law.
Ms Wei has extensive experience in financial institutions, real estate, energy, telecommunica tions, retail, automobile, high-tech and traditional manufacturing industries, and represents various multinational companies, Chinese companies, investment banks and private equity funds in their M&A transactions. She has provided advice on various aspects of such projects, including the design of transaction structures, due diligence investigations, and the drafting and negotiation of complicated legal documents. She has also advised many domestic and international clients from different industries in corporate financing, commercial transactions and general corporate matters since she joined the firm in 1994. Ms Wei also has extensive experience in the private fund formation area and has represented various fund managers or investors in such deals.
Ms Wei has been named one of the “Best Lawyers Returning from Overseas Study” by the Beijing Lawyers Association, and is also frequently recommended as a leading lawyer in China in the M&A and/or competition sections of IFLR1000 Euromoney’s Legal Media Group, The Legal 500, WWL and Asialaw.
Euan Burrows is a partner and EMEA head of the competition team. Admitted in England & Wales and Ireland, Euan acts on a wide range of competition law, competition litigation, state aid and procure ment law matters and has considerable experi ence in dealing with the European Commission, Competition and Markets Authority, Concurrent UK regulators, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and private courts (including advocacy higher rights of audience). His practice encompasses competition law investigations, competition and procurement law litigation, regulatory challenges (including judi cial review), merger control and the application of competition law to a wide range of commercial agreements and practices.
Peers and clients say: “Euan is strong in transactional work, mergers in particular”
Euan is recommended by the major Legal Directories: The Legal 500 (Competition lawHall of Fame; Competition Litigation - Leading Practitioner); Chambers & Partners (Competition law; Competition litigation); Who’s Who Legal (UK Leading Practitioner); and IFLR
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His matters have been recognised by Legal Business Competition Matter of the Year (Winner); The Lawyer Competition Matter of the Year (Winner, Runner up); Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Litigation Matter of the Year (Winner); Legal Week Competition Matter of the Year (Runner up).
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Peers and clients say: “She has a deep and nuanced understanding of the Chinese market” ”She’s able to deploy her extensive knowledge in a simple and straightforward way”
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Since the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law was enacted, Ms Wei has represented various multina tional companies and Chinese companies in their merger control filings, AML advice on cartel, RPM, abuse of dominant position and other AML compli ance issues. Ms Wei has also handled multiple government investigation cases initiated by AML enforcement agencies in the areas of cartel, RPM and abuse of dominant position; Ms. Wei repre sented multinational companies defending them in anti-trust litigations (including follow-on suits) regarding RPM or abuse of dominant position.
20/F, China Resources Building 8 Jianguomenbei Avenue Beijing, 100005 Tel: +86 10 weiyl@junhe.com85191380www.junhe.com
Euan is Vice Chair of the UK Competition Law Association and also sits on the Competition Appeal Tribunal User Group Panel. He is the Coordinating Editor of the International Comparative Law Guide: Competition Litigation and also Coordinating Editor of Global Legal Insights: Cartels
Ms Wei studied at China University of Political Science and Law (LLB, 1993) and the University of Michigan Law School (LLM, 2002). She is a member of the All-China Lawyers Association, and the Beijing and New York State bar associations. She speaks Mandarin and English.
Fruit & Wool Exchange 1 Duval Square London, E1 6PW Tel: +44 20 7859 euan.burrows@ashurst.com2919www.ashurst.com
”He possesses deep knowledge regarding competition law”
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”Euan is an excellent practitioner”
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Douglas Lahnborg Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Peers and clients say: “Douglas boasts a superb profile of cases” “He is an excellent technical lawyer”
In addition to conducting multi-jurisdictional merger control analyses, obtaining antitrust and regulatory approvals for complex transactions within and outside of the EU/UK, and negotiating reme dies packages, Davina represents sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, global institutional asset managers and banks in the context of their strategic and financial investments (transactional and conten tious). During the global financial crisis, Davina was seconded to a global financial institution where she led on antitrust and regulatory issues.
Davina also advises on abuse of dominance investigations by the EC, the CMA, Ofcom, the FCA and Ofgem; cartel and other behavioural investiga tions; and state aid, public interest and FDI/national security reviews. She has also represented clients in competition/regulatory appeals and private damages actions before the CAT/courts.
of Mark in the main legal direc tories include: “He is a careful and brilliant lawyer” and “[a] very clever guy – strong intellectually and strong on the regulatory side” (Chambers 2022) and “one of the standout competition and regulatory lawyers in the UK” (The Legal 500 2021).
Mark Friend is head of Allen & Overy LLP’s London antitrust practice and has been a partner since 1990, having qualified as a solicitor in 1982. He read law at Cambridge and obtained a master’s degree in EU law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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Davina read law at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge University (MA (Hons)). She is based in Akin Gump’s London office, and regularly works in Brussels and Washington DC.
Orrick partner Douglas Lahnborg represents clients before the European Commission and the Competition and Markets Authority in all areas of competition law, including international merger control investigations and complex abuse of domi nance and cartel investigations. He has acted for clients in a broad range of industries, including technology, telecommunications and satellite, manufacturing, life sciences, defence, energy and finance. He has participated in working groups and panels, with representatives from Parliament and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on the National Security & Investment Act.
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Davina is recognised as a leading individual by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Chambers UK, The Legal 500: UK, Euromoney and WWL.
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Davina Garrod is a partner and head of Akin’s International Competition Practice.
Davina regularly speaks at international conferences and is widely published on competition law. She is a committee member (and former chair) of the UK Law Society competition section; former chair of the IBA public law committee; and former Law Society member for EU matters.
Eighth Floor Ten Bishops Square London, E1 6EG Tel: +44 20 7661 davina.garrod@akingump.com5480www.akingump.com
Davina Garrod Akin Gump LLP
He represents clients in the Commission’s IoT sector inquiry and abuse of dominance inves tigations. He has also been active representing “Big Tech” before the CMA in a market study and merger investigations. He was the lead lawyer in the Commission’s EU Merger Regulation clearance of the consolidation of the Nordic satellite pay-TV platforms, reducing the number of DTH operators in the region from two to one.
Douglas is based in London and spends a proportion of his time in the Brussels office, which he founded. He is qualified in England and Wales (Solicitor) and in the European Union (Sweden, Advokat; Registered in Brussels
His practice encompasses all aspects of EU and UK competition law (including antitrust liti gation); state aid and the economic regulation of utilities, with a focus on energy and water; and the regulation of payment systems. He has extensive experience of counselling and representing clients in complex mergers and strategic alliances, and cartel, dominance and market investigations, at EU and national levels; and in advising public and private sector clients on more general EU law issues.Descriptions
Peers and clients say: “Mark is highly experienced, committed and passionate” ”He is one of the best in the business and extremely knowledgeable”
Davina has practised EU and UK competition law since 1999 and became an equity partner in 2006. She advises multinationals, corporates, financial institutions and trade associations on all aspects of competition law, including M&A, JVs, strategic alliances and restructurings.
Peers and clients say: “A high-profile UK competition lawyer who is engaged in policy ”Davinafora” is a hands-on and superb lawyer” ”She does a fantastic job both on merits of the case and when it comes to coordinating foreign counsel”
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He has published widely in academic and professional journals, and co-authored the chapter on state guarantees in EU State Aids (edited by Hancher, Ottervanger and Slot, 2021). Mark is a member of the advisory board of the Competition Law Forum.Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competition practice comprises over 120 specialists operating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
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Duncan Liddell Ashurst LLP
In the UK, Dominic has advised on the merger control aspects of several high-profile transac tions, including public interest interventions under the UK’s Enterprise Act 2002 and national security reviews under the National Security and Investment Act 2021. At a European level, Dominic has advised on several major cross-border transactions including three Phase II clearances before the EC.
One Bishops Square London, E1 6AD Tel: +44 20 3088
In addition to deep expertise in financial services markets, Duncan has particular exper tise in the communications market and regularly advises sector participants, including Virgin Media and Facebook, on a wide range of competition law, regulatory and compliance issues.
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Duncan also has a very active merger control practice advising on a range of national and inter national M&A transactions for clients, including: Barclays, Biffa, Babcock, Cardtronics, FCC, and GFG Alliance (Liberty House Group).
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”Dominiclaw”is an up and coming star”
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Dominic Long Allen & Overy LLP
Peers and clients say: “Duncan is a very highly regarded and popular competition practi tioner with great judgement”
”He has an excellent grasp of competition principles and he is always great to deal with”
Tel: +44 20 7859 duncan.liddell@ashurst.com1648www.ashurst.com
He has a very strong practice advising corpo rates in relation to investigations into anti-com petitive conduct. Duncan is currently advising (i) Bank of America in relation to the European Commission’s high profile cartel investigation into alleged manipulation of European Government Bond markets, (ii) a large financial institution in relation to the CMA’s ongoing cartel investigation in the financial services sector; and (iii) a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in relation to two separate cartel investigations by the CMA.
Peers and clients say: “Dominic is highly experienced in dealing with competition
Duncan also has considerable experience advising on antitrust litigation before the UK and EU courts and specialist competition tribunals, including advising Royal Mail Group in connection with the appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal of the first Competition Act infringement decision ever taken by Ofcom.
London Fruit & Wool Exchange
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”Hisauthorities”styleis eloquent and persuasive”
Duncan is a partner in the Competition and EU law department and specialises in contentious and non-contentious UK and EU competition law. He has considerable experience in advising a wide range of clients on matters before the EU Commission, UK Competition and Markets Authority, UK sectoral regulators (including Ofcom and the FCA), and the UK and European Courts.
On behavioural matters, Dominic has advised clients on many high-profile cartel and abuse of dominance investigations undertaken by the Competition and Markets Authority and the EC, as well as SEP-related abuse of dominance liti gation before the UK courts.Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competition practice comprises over 120 specialists operating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, poli cies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the highest-profile and most complex cases in the market.
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Dominic is a partner in Allen & Overy’s global antitrust team and splits his time between the firm’s London and Brussels offices. Dominic has extensive experience advising on complex, multi-jurisdictional merger clearances before both the European Commission (EC) and UK merger control authorities, as well as abuse of dominance (particularly in an IP licensing context) and cartel investigations, EU state aid considerations, national security/foreign direct investment regimes and market investigations.
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Peers and clients say: “Philip has worked on several notable cases”
”Philip comes highly recommended”
Kristina is an officer of the International Bar Association, an editorial board member of International Chemical Regulatory and Law Review and of Global Competition Review, and a trustee of the Academy of European Law (ERA).
Philip also has substantial cartel and behav ioural experience (including the FX, Automotive Parts, GIS, Power Transformers, LCD and CRT cartel cases) and speaks regularly at the signa ture IBA/ABA cartel conference. He won the GCR Behavioural Matter of the Year award in 2016 for work on the EC’s credit defaults swap investiga tion, and advised on the first EU settlement case (DRAM) and the first Financial Conduct Authority competition enforcement case (Asset Managers). He is currently advising on a UK investigation into suspected anticompetitive behaviour regarding replica football kits.
Philip Mansfield is global co-head of Allen & Overy’s antitrust group. He has led meetings for clients with agencies around the world on merger, cartel and behavioural matters.
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Known for her understanding of how EU insti tutions work, Kristina advises numerous online marketplaces and platforms on EU antitrust matters, including issues impacting the digital single market, online selling, mobile and electronic payments and other technology. She has a track record of using EU law tools such as free movement rules, litigation and infringement procedures to secure and improve market access for her clients.
One Bishops Square London, E1 6AD Tel: +44 20 3088 philip.mansfield@allenovery.com4414www.allenovery.com
”He is a very impressive competition lawyer”
Other areas of expertise include advising financial institutions on cartel investigations and FCA market studies, including EC/UK strategies for immunity/leniency applications and settlement discussions, and helping clients to raise and defend behavioural complaints relating to interoperability, bundling, patent pools and patent ambush (he was lead lawyer on Sun Microsystems’ complaint against Microsoft that led to the EC adopting its landmark remedy decision, and acted on the EC’s clearance of the precedential DVD 6C Patent Pool).Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and compe tition practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
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Kristina’s court experience includes litigating alleged antitrust violations, disputed product classifications/restrictions, market access, data protection/transparency and legal privilege issues. She also has extensive expertise in EU state aid law, particularly in relation to tax.
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Philip has extensive experience of handling complex mergers and joint venture arrangements, with longstanding expertise in the high-tech and financial services sectors. Recent experience includes advising Maersk Drilling on its merger with Noble Corporation, NortonLifeLock on its acquisition of Avast, Refinitiv and shareholder Blackstone on Refinitiv’s acquisition by the London Stock Exchange Group, Symantec on the sale of its Enterprise business to Broadcom, and Hitachi on its JV with Honda in the automotive sector.
Kristina is an acknowledged thought leader in the antitrust field and regularly writes and speaks on antitrust issues. In 2008, she founded the Women’s Competition Network, an international discussion and networking forum for 2000+ senior competition law and policy professionals.
Kristina has an EU antitrust, litigation and regu latory practice with a focus on big tech and life sciences. She represents clients on antitrust investigations, challenges and complaints before the European Commission and on high-profile proceedings before the EU courts in Luxembourg.
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Peers and clients say: “Nigel is a very significant figure in the sector”
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”He is excellent regarding merger issues”
Matthew Readings is Global Antitrust Practice group leader and head of Shearman & Sterling’s London and Brussels offices. He splits his time between London and Brussels and focuses on EU and UK competition law, including transactional and behavioural/contentious work and on UK, European and other non-US foreign investment regimes.Matthew advises a broad range of clients on strategic merger clearance and foreign invest ment approval issues, represents clients before the European Commission and the CMA, oversees multi-jurisdictional merger reviews in countries throughout the world and has handled complex European Commission and CMA cases including phase II investigations and remedy cases. He also advises on cartel investigations by the European Commission, and UK cartel investigations and market studies/investigations by the CMA and sector regulators such as the FCA. He is experi enced in private enforcement of antitrust rights in the UKMatthewcourts.is recommended in the principal legal directories.
Peers and clients say: “She is knowledge able, trusted, and responsive”
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Matthew Readings Shearman & Sterling LLP
Dublin office: The 15–18 EarlsfortVictorians Terrace
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
“He takes time to understand his clients to provide useful, digestible and actionable advice to their individual circumstances”
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”Kristina really knows her stuff and is a practical lawyer”
Tel: +44 20 3088 kristina.nordlander@allenovery.com1280www.allenovery.com
9 Appold Street London, EC2A 2AP Tel: +44 20 7655
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Kristina received LLMs from the University of Stockholm and from Harvard Law School, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She is admitted to the Brussels Bar (associated member), New York Bar and the Swedish Bar.
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Peers and clients say: “Matthew is very knowledgeable, particularly with regard to merger control”
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Nigel chairs the Ashurst competition and antitrust law practice. Admitted in Ireland and England & Wales, Nigel specialises in all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including mergers, strategic business advice and competition risk management, cartel and abuse of dominance cases, market/ sector investigations, appeals and competition litigation. He has LLB, LLM and PhD degrees in Law and EU Law, and is the co-author of UK Merger Control: Law and Practice (3rd edn, Sweet & Maxwell). He is based in both London and Dublin.
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His recent matters include: IHSMarkit, in relation to its $44 billion merger with S&P Global; Circle Healthcare in relation to its acquisition of BMI Healthcare; Lloyds Banking Group, in relation to the introduction of “Open Banking” in the UK following the CMA’s market investigation; Application Developers’ in relation to the appeal of the EU Commission’s Android Decision to the EU General Court; Morrisons in relation to the successful £7 billion bid for the company by CD&R, which is being reviewed by the CMA in relation to overlap ping petrol filling stations; Intel’s appeal against the European Commission’s decision and €1 billion fine. In an unprecedented judgment, the General Court annulled the Commission’s fine on Intel; and McLaren Automotive and McLaren Racing in rela tion to a range of matters. He is advising a number of clients in relation to Brexit-related issues, as well as in connection with the response of competition law to the covid-19 pandemic, and in particular the adoption of three statutory Orders (private health care, groceries and dairy) that excluded the appli cation of competition law to those sectors.
Peers and clients say: “Very strong when it comes to compliance matters”
In compliance matters, Jacques has advised several international companies on their compli ance programs, as well as providing counsel in various in-house seminars throughout Europe; such as for NGK Japan, Total, Metsaliitto, Alcatel Lucent and Toyota Motor Corporation.
“I really liked Jacques’ hands-on approach”
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Nigel Seay is the head of Travers Smith LLP’s competition group and has over two decades of experience practicing Competition law. Nigel advises on UK, EU and multi-jurisdictional merger control matters, as well as on UK foreign invest ment/national security rules. Nigel’s practice also encompasses the full range of behavioural UK and EU competition law matters, from early stage compliance advice to full-scale investiga tions by the regulators. Nigel regularly represents clients before the UK Competition and Markets Authority, the various UK sectoral regulators, and the European Commission.
Peers and clients say: “James is an excellent lawyer with very good communication skills” “He is highly professional and thorough in his analysis of the issues, but also commer cially oriented”
Jacques Buhart focuses his practice on EU competi tion rules and mergers & acquisitions. He counsels clients on a broad range of complex competition matters as well as contentious proceedings before the European and French courts.
Nigel also has a significant competition litiga tion practice before the English courts, in particular defending follow on claims based on European Commission decisions as well as related standalone
His merger experience includes representing Cellnex as the intervening party in the JV between Vodafone and Telecom Italia, advising TUI on its acquisition of Transat Voyages, counselling Mitsubishi Heavy Industry on the restructuring of Areva and the French nuclear industry, and as intervening party in the GE/Alstom merger, advising Canon on its acqui sition of OCE in the Netherlands, and counselling TotalFina on its acquisition of Elf (second phase).
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Jacques has been a visiting professor of EU competition law at Aix-Marseille University since 1995, and at the University of Tokyo since 2004. He is a Member of the Board of the Sorbonne Law School. He has published widely on EU competition rules, including Leniency Regimes (fourth edition, Thomson Reuters, 2015).
Nigelclaims.has experience across a wide variety of sectors including financial services, technology, energy and infrastructure, industrial goods, the construction sector and retail.
Peers and clients say: “Nigel is a strategic thinker and an excellent negotiator” “He fights hard for his clients”
James Webber Shearman & Sterling LLP
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Nigel has been recognised for his work in national legal publications. Chambers UK notes client feedback that Nigel is “a very experienced competition lawyer. He is a deep thinker and strategic on the case”. The Legal 500 notes client feedback that “[Nigel] is very patient, analytical, versatile and flexible, and is well versed in devel oping novel solutions for intricate problems”.10Snow
In contentious matters, Jacques represented Cascades in the carton board cartel case before the Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg; he counselled Daiichi Pharmaceutical in the vitamins cartel case before the Court of First Instance; and Coca-Cola before the Court of Appeal in Paris against allegations of abuse of dominant position.
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James is listed as one of The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” 2022, the top 100 lawyers in any field and of any seniority selected for excellence within and relevance to the legal profession in the UK.
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James’s competition practice is focused on merger control, joint ventures, cooperative agree ments and antitrust litigation. He also has a signif icant practice in subsidy control / State aid and is consistently rated as one of Europe’s leading lawyers in this field.
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Jacques has significant experience in cartel defence. He coordinated a Japanese car parts manufacturer’s investigation in the EU, the US, Canada, Africa and other jurisdictions. He was also involved in the EU freight forwarding case, vitamins cartel case, and in several cartel investigations in France for GEA and Kuehne + Nagel.
James Webber is a partner in the Antitrust practice in Brussels and London.
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Olivier is also currently involved before the Commercial Court in several antitrust follow-on cases that represent an aggregate amount of well above EUR 1 billion.
In May 2014, he founded its own boutique firm specialising in competition law and regula tion after having been, within Allen & Overy, the co-head of the Global Antitrust Group and heads the Competition and European practice in France. Since its inception in 2014 the originally boutique firm has, continuously grown to become a solidly established and well-reputed high-end practice in the field of competition and regulation. In January 2021, Fréget & Associés accrues a public economic law team of four more lawyers, adding significant complementary expertise, such as in competi tion-based regulatory litigation (e.g., before the Conseil d’Etat) – and then the firm changes his name in Fréget Glaser & Associés.
Peers and clients say: “Olivier comes strongly recommended for antitrust and competition law matters in the life sciences sector”
Peers and clients say: “Natalie has a great ability to work with in-house lawyers”
From January 2014, he teaches Competition law in the Law School of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (“Sciences-Po”).
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Olivier Fréget has around 30 years’ experience as a competition lawyer covering merger, cartels, abuse of dominant position (state aids. From the outset his career, he has been working closely with various leading academics in the field of competition law in complex cases at the border of economics and law.
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Olivier has been named as being part of the 30 elite French lawyers, in December 2020 by the French legal magazine Décideurs Juridiques. He is recognized as a ‘leading individual’ in the field in the Chambers and The Legal 500 legal direc tories (Band 1 for competition matters in Life Science and Telecommunications, Band 2 for general competition practices), as well as in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers, Global Competition Review. ‘Clients are impressed by [his] “overwhelming creativity” and “remarkable drafting”, while peers admire his “intelligence and high standards.” He is noted [as being] ‘most at home in the courtroom,’. The Who’s Who Legal 2013 presents him as “Fréget once again proves his abil ities, and is lauded as “extremely bright, amongst the best in France”.
She is recognised as a leading lawyer by a number of Legal publications.
Nathalie Jalabert-Doury is the head of antitrust and competition in France and co-leader of the Firm’s European Antitrust Practice.
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Nathalie handles a number of merger cases every year. She notably assists companies in struc turing complex transactions (full-function and non-full-function ventures; strategic alliances; build-ups; etc.) and has acquired significant expe rience in various specific industries such as in the building materials, transport or food sectors.
”He is a top-notch lawyer”
Olivier’s leading experience also features high profile litigation cases before the European Court of Justice, the General Court, defending clients, in particular, in the context of merger deci sions and State aid. He also routinely represents clients before the EU Commission, the French Competition Authority and the regulatory bodies in the Telecommunication Sector (ARCEP) and the Energy Sector (Commission de Régulation de l’Energie), or for Media(Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel).Olivierhas been consistently involved in the hottest competition law matters in France. For example, currently he is representing:
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1) Two of the biggest global pharmaceutical companies in two landmark antitrust cases about the interaction between pharma regulation and antitrust.2)Amajor digital player in two major cases before the French Competition Authority.
Nathalie has developed an extensive practice in all aspects of competition law at both French – including the Polynesian and New Caledonian competition authorities – and European levels, including cartels; concerted practices and abuse of dominance; mergers; horizontal and vertical agree ments; and state aids and public procurement.
Olivier Fréget Fréget Glaser & Associés
He is the author of the book La Concurrence, une idée toujours neuve en Europe et en France (Competition, an idea still new in Europe and in France) “ (Odile Jacob - Fall 2015)
Tel: +33 1 47 23 78 olivier.freget@freget-glaser.fr80www.freget-glaser.fr
”Olivier is an excellent litigator”
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“She is strategic and understands the issues at stake”
She is a recognised expert in the field of dawn raids, advising companies on the upstream prepa ration and management of inspections by the European Commission and national competition authorities. She has authored well-known practical guides intended for legal departments on antitrust inspections.Herexpertise has developed over 20 years spent advising companies in a number of cartel, resale price maintenance and dominance cases. She has been involved in several high-profile cartel cases in a wide range of industries (building materials and construction, food industry, luxury products) and she also regularly appears before the French Competition Authority including in bidrigging investigations and resale price maintenance cases.On the dominance side, Nathalie represents leading companies that are investigated by the competition authorities or sued before courts and she advises companies holding exclusive or special rights on their activities in competitive markets.
Florence is recognised as a leading individual by the major legal directories. The Legal 500 2022 - France describes Florence as a “multi-jurisdic tional merger expert”. Chambers France 2022 notes that Florence is “well regarded for her expertise in French and European competition law, including merger filings, abuse of dominance investigations and state aid matters. One impressed client states that she is “a very sharp antitrust lawyer,” and adds: ‘She is an expert in her field but remains very approachable and kind.”
Tel: +49 40 82 221 boerries.ahrens@allenovery.com2124www.allenovery.com
Chambers Europe (2022) notes that Börries is “sought after for his ability to handle a broad array of competition law matters ranging from Phase II merger control proceedings to distribution issues and administrative proceedings against the FCO”, and quotes a client who describes him as “very quick and available. He allows other opinions, and is very professional and technically excellent”.
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the Hamburg,BallindammBallinhofmarket.1720095
Florence Ninane is a partner in Allen & Overy’s Paris office. She has significant experience in all areas of French and European competition law. She regularly assists clients with French, EU and multi-jurisdictional merger notifications, and also represents companies in competition law litigation before competition authorities and courts (in cartel investigations, abuse of dominance, state aid and private enforcement matters).
”His advice is always very thorough and spot on”
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Dr Börries Ahrens is a partner in Allen & Overy LLP’s Hamburg office and advises on all aspects of European and German antitrust law. His experience spans a wide spectrum of industries.
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Peers and clients say: “Florence is able to react quickly and adapt to issues” ”An outstanding name who is deserving of inclusion on a list of the best French competition lawyers”
Peers and clients say: “Börries Ahrens is a super quick thinker”
Florence regularly writes on antitrust issues in publications such as Revue Concurrences and L’AGEFI, and has authored the chapter of access to evidence in private actions in Lamy Concurrence since 2018. She recently contributed to Allen & Overy’s global trends in merger control enforce ment report and global antitrust enforcement report (2022). Florence is often interviewed in the antitrust and business press and frequently speaks at antitrustMembershipsconferences.include French competition associations (APDC and board member of AFEC).
A focus of Börries’s practice is investigations and antitrust litigation. Börries frequently defends clients in cartel investigations and represents them in court proceedings regarding follow-on damages actions. He has represented clients in a range of sector inquiries by the German Federal Cartel OfficeBörries(FCO).regularly represents clients in merger control proceedings before the FCO and the European Commission, and coordinates merger filings in other jurisdictions around the globe. He has significant experience with complex phase II proceedings in Germany, including ministerial permits and post-merger litigation.
Tel: +33 140 065 florence.ninane@allenovery.com322www.allenovery.com
Florence Ninane Allen & Overy LLP
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
Florence’s areas of sector expertise include energy, finance, the digital sector and consumer goods. Clients include leading financial institu tions, Airbus, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Chanel, Crédit Mutuel Arkea, Expedia, Government of Gibraltar, Ipsen Pharma, Natixis, Pandora, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, FedEx/TNT, TripAdvisor, Vaillant Group and Webedia.
Börries Ahrens Allen & Overy LLP
bach@oppenlaender.de150www.oppenlaender.de
regularly speaks and publishes on EU and German antitrust law issues. Her publications include the horizontal cooperation chapters in the leading German / EU antitrust commentary Langen/Bunte, as well as publications on pharma antitrust (GTDT, WuW).
Ellen holds an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate in antitrust law from the University of Hamburg. She is a German lawyer, admitted to the New York Bar. She speaks fluent English and French.Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competition practice comprises over 120 specialists operating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, poli cies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the highest-profile and most complex cases in the market.
“She is a key figure and very knowledgeable”
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Peers and clients say: “Ellen is well regarded in the non-contentious competition space”
Hamburg,BallindammBallinhof1720095
Tel: +49 40 82 221 ellen.braun@allenovery.com2137www.allenovery.com
Peers and clients say: “He is one of the most outstanding and senior competition lawyers in Germany”
Börsenplatz 1Stuttgart,(Friedrichsbau)70174
Albrecht Bach Oppenländer Rechtsanwälte
He has represented companies before the German FCO and the European Commission, in particular in merger control filings, cartel inves tigations and dominance cases. Industries of particular expertise include digital, retail trade, media and pharmaceuticals/cosmetics. Albrecht is regarded as one of the leading experts in private enforcementAlbrechtcases.serves as board member of the Antitrust Lawyers’ Association for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He teaches European Competition law at Mannheim University. Albrecht is co-author of two leading commentaries on German antitrust law. He has spoken frequently at various inter national competition conferences and published numerous articles on competition law.
Ellen Braun Allen & Overy LLP
Prof Dr Albrecht Bach is a senior partner at Oppenländer. His practice focuses on European and German competition law.
“He has broad experience, especially in fine proceedings and damage claims”
Ellen Braun is head of Allen & Overy’s German anti trust practice. She specialises in EU and German competition law and advises on merger control (including multiple worldwide filings), the struc turing of cooperation, joint venture and distribution agreements; horizontal and vertical compliance risks (including forensic audits and compliance programs); and strategies to prevent or defend abuse complaints. In recent years, Ellen has developed a focus on defending clients in EU and German investigations, including court scrutiny of agency decisions, and in private enforcement cases in court. Her active client relationships include Advent International, CTS Eventim, Elanco, Evonik Industries, Procter & Gamble, Scania, TripAdvisor and VDM EllenMetals.isrecognised in the JUVE Handbook and in Chambers. Juve Handbook (2022) lists her as a “leading senior competition counsel”. According to Chambers Europe (2022), Ellen is “appreciated for her involvement in large and often multi-jurisdic tional competition mandates, advising on abuse of dominance allegations, sector investigations and merger control issues. She is also particularly active in cartel damages claims.” Client accolades acknowledge her as “an excellent competition lawyer”.Ellen
“An excellent practitioner”
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Albrecht graduated from the Universities of Tübingen (Dr iur 1991) and Aix-en-Provence. Apart from his native German he is fluent in English and French.Oppenländer
Rechtsanwälte is a medi um-sized law firm offering personal and special ised advice to corporate clients. The antitrust practice of Oppenländer has been highly recom mended in various international and national legal publications, including, inter alia, Global Competition Review, GCR 100, Chambers Europe and JUVE Handbook
“Albrecht is an excellent competition lawyer”
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Thomas has represented leniency recip ients and negotiated settlements with the Bundeskartellamt. He successfully defended industry leaders in European Commission anti trust investigations – including a global automotive component supplier, a leading German retail group and a digital champion from North America.
Christian Horstkotte Mayer Brown LLP
Ms Heinz has litigated in German and European courts, including in referral proceed ings to the European Court of Justice in Pfleiderer (access to file in cartel cases) and in IP (FRAND-) litigation between Daimler and Nokia on connected vehicles, as well as in cartel and merger decision appeals and civil litigation.
In addition to an IBA diploma in competition law and his German qualification, Thomas earned a certif icate from the University of California and a master’s degree from the University of Virginia (LL.M.), as well as a doctorate from Bonn University (Dr. jur.).
Tel: +49 221 5108 thomas.funke@osborneclarke.com4210www.osborneclarke.com
Thomas has spoken at the ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting and chaired international antitrust confer ences. He is recommended in Chambers Global GCR, Handelsblatt, Juve, Leaders League and The Legal 500
Heinz & Zagrosek Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB
Christian regularly lectures and has arti cles published. He is co-author of Frankfurter Kommentar zum Kartellrecht and several other antitrust publications. He is active member of the German Association of Antitrust Lawyers. He is listed as a leading antitrust lawyer in various publi cations and rankings (eg, Chambers, GCR, JUVE, The Legal 500 and Wirtschaftswoche).
Königsallee 61 Düsseldorf, 40215 Tel: +49 211 chorstkotte@mayerbrown.com862240www.mayerbrown.com
She has worked on a broad range of merger cases, both at EU and national level. She repre sented clients in the GlaxoSmithKline/Novartis and Baxter Healthcare/Gambro mergers.
Christian is an impressive lawyer with an impressive client base” ”A great personality who provides a very high quality of service”
Christian joined Mayer Brown in 2021 as a partner. At the beginning of his career as an anti trust lawyer, he practised in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Brussels and Düsseldorf offices and was then 10 years head of Baker McKenzie’s German antitrust practice. Christian completed his legal education at the universities of Berlin, Bologna and Göttingen.
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“He’s an extremely successful lawyer who is a great cooperator”
Thomas is a recognised antitrust expert for the automotive sector. He has published on the EU block exemptions, antitrust procedure, energy regulation, vertical restraints, merger control, data access and digital antitrust.
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Christianpractice.has20 years’ experience advising on antitrust and competition law. He counsels clients on all aspects of German and European antitrust law, focusing on complex merger control proceedings and cartel investigations as well as court proceedings before German and European competition authorities and courts, including follow-on litigation. He also regularly advises clients in dominance matters and in the imple mentation of compliance programmes. His industry focus includes in particular blue-chip companies in the automotive, energy, financial services, FMCG, construction and logistics industries. In 2019, he successfully defended Carlsberg in a milestone German appeal court proceeding in the beer cartel, having the court completely annul a €62 million fine. In 2020 he secured an unconditional phase 2 EU merger clearance for Aurubis.
Peers and clients say: “He is one of the key players in the market”
The European Commission retained him to defend its E.ON/Innogy and RWE/E.ON merger clearances against 16 third-party challenges in the EU General Court. Thomas secured German merger clearances for several multi-billion transactions in the energy, technology and life sciences sectors. He recently represented Lekkerland before the European Commission and Germany’s Bundeskartellamt and helped his client win merger clearances for its heavily contested acquisition by REWE.
Peers and clients say: “She is one of the finest lawyers around, with deep expertise in complex market dominant cases” “Silke is a thought leader in Germany and a great source of advice and inspiration”
Ms Heinz advises on antitrust aspects of digital platform across industries, including online distri bution and abuse of dominance. She represented a complainant in the German abuse proceedings against Amazon, and advises clients against Apple, including under the new German competition law rules for digital gatekeepers.
Peers and clients say: “Thomas is one of the finest lawyers in the area of antitrust litigation”
Thomas Funke is the co-head of the international competition practice at Osborne Clarke.
“He really rocks the claims litigation world in Germany”
Christian Horstkotte heads Mayer Brown’s German antitrust and competition practice and is based in the firm’s Düsseldorf and Brussels offices. He is also co-leader of the firm’s European antitrust and competition
Innere Kanalstrasse 15 Cologne, D-50823
Silke Heinz
Thomas G Funke Osborne Clarke
In the European Court of Justice and Germany’s Supreme Court, Thomas obtained ground-breaking decisions in Hydrogen Peroxide (C-352/13), Akzo v Commission (T-345/12), CDC v Commission (T-437/08) and the BGH Coffee Roaster litigation. He represents Deutsche Bahn in one of the largest follow-on actions against the EU trucks cartelists.
Spichernstraße 36 Cologne, 50672 Tel: +49 221 888 69 sheinz@hz-partner.com172www.hz-partner.com
Ms Heinz advises clients on all aspects of EU and German competition law, including merger control, cooperation among competitors, distribution, cartel proceedings, vertical infringements, dominance, compliance and litigation. She has expertise in various industries, such as aerospace, automo tive, media, chemical products, consumer goods, energy, IT, medical devices, pharmaceutical prod ucts and telecommunication.
For almost 15 years, Harald was head of the global CMS competition practice group with more than 200 competition lawyers worldwide. He is co-chair of the antitrust and competition practice group of the World Law Group (WLG).
Dr. Sebastian Jungermann is a competition partner in Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein’s Frankfurt office.
Sebastian is a member of the board in the Competition Litigation Forum, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Frankfurt Antitrust Law Forum, and he is a member of the ABA, the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, and various other professional associations. Before joining ASD, Sebastian headed the German antitrust practice of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, where he had been a partner since 2009.
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“Dr Jungermann’s clients benefit from his extensive expertise in antitrust matters and it is always a pleasure to work with him”
Hamburger Allee 4 Frankfurt am Main, 60486 Tel: +49 69 s.jungermann@asd-law.com979885-465www.arneckesibeth.com
Peers and clients say: “A highly competent practitioner” on international merger notification”
”Exceptional
worldwide.Schoettlestrasse
“A truly excellent lawyer”
The CMS competition practice group is one of the largest competition groups in the world.
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Sebastian studied law at the University of Marburg and received his doctorate (PhD) on the evidentiary value of digital signatures. He is an author of the wellknown Frankfurt Commentary on Antitrust Law, the German Handbook on Merger Control, and he regularly publishes on the topics of antitrust law and compli ance and gives lectures and trainings on these topics.
Peers and clients say: “He has an excel lent understanding of complex economic analyses and holds extensive knowledge of competition law”
Dr Harald Kahlenberg is a partner in CMS Hasche Sigle’s Stuttgart office. His practice focuses on EU and German competition law with special emphasis on merger control and cartel investigations. For more than 30 years, he has been representing German and international clients before the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission and German courts in a large number of merger noti fications and competition law enforcement cases, and has obtained clearances on a wide range of transactions. He has vast experience in complex multi-jurisdictional merger filings for interna tional transactions and has coordinated merger filings in more than 40 jurisdictions worldwide. Harald represents clients in complex cartel inves tigation and enforcement proceedings before the competition authorities and courts. He also advises clients on implementing competition compliance programmes. Recent mandates have focused on sectors such as machine tools, engineering, steel and scrap, drugstore chains, timber, print and new media, and distribution.
Sebastian advises his clients regarding German and European competition law, including merger control, cartel proceedings, abuse-of-dominance proceed ings, litigation, contracts, compliance, and internal audits. He represents his clients before German and European courts, the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission as well as the US Department of Justice. Sebastian further advises in the fields of corporate law, M&A, IP, data protection and GDPR, compliance, and other technology-re lated areas and international litigation.
Stuttgart, 70597
Tel: +49 711 9764 harald.kahlenberg@cms-hs.com303www.cms.law
Sebastian has worked on a number of high-profile antitrust cases and transactions, covering various industries and markets, such as aerospace and defense, air freight, computing and semiconductors, solar, automotive, trucks, safety systems, banking and finance, health care, consumables, power plant infrastructure, steel, catering and food, flour, industrial services, ship ping, cargo and logistics, building materials, heating, plumbing and air conditioning, chinaware, rolled asphalt, plastics, among others.
Harald is a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences. He is listed as a leading lawyer in competition law in all of the major rankings and directories.
Its more than 200 competition lawyers are based in 45 cities, including Algiers, Amsterdam, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Bogota, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kiev, Lima, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Mombasa, Munich, Nairobi, Paris, Podgorica, Prague, Santiago de Chile, Sarajevo, Shanghai, Sheffield, Skopje, Sofia, Stuttgart, Tirana, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb and Zurich. The CMS organisation has over 5,000 lawyers and tax consultants in 77 offices in 43 countries
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Moritz holds a doctoral degree in law for a thesis on patent licensing under EU competition law. During his doctorate, he spent six months at Boston University Law School as a visiting scholar. He studied law at Passau University in Germany, in Russia and in China.
”He is an outstanding lawyer”
Silke is a member of the Düsseldorf Bar, the International Bar Association, the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, the CLaSF, and the German-American Lawyers’ Association.
Recent assignments include the review of the distribution system of an international fashion chain, securing merger clearance for an acquisi tion by a major international chemicals company, advising a dominant company on its rebate scheme, developing a big data-based compliance screening tool, filing a multimillion damages claim against a cartel member and representing a regional airport in a state aid matter.
Dr Silke Möller, LL.M. (King’s College London), is a partner at highly regarded boutique firm Glade Michel Wirtz, which she is part of since its foundation in 2007. Silke has extensive experience in advising national and international clients on all aspects of German and European competition law.
Peers and clients say: “She is very practical and provides a top-level service”
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Nicolas Kredel Baker McKenzie
Silke regularly represents corporates and PE investors such as Ardian, Clearlake Capital Group, Colliers International, Intermediate Capital Group, Mycronic, or Spirax-Sarco in transnational merger control
Peers and clients say: “He is the go-to lawyer for competition in Germany”
Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein
Kurfürstendamm 54/55 Berlin, 10707
Moritz Lorenz
Tel: +49 30 814 59 www.arneckesibeth.comm.lorenz@asd-law.com13-24
”One of the best lawyers for mergers”
”An excellent competition lawyer”
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Peers and clients say: “Moritz is calm, composed and a steady pair of hands in complex competition matters”
Nicolas Kredel chairs Baker McKenzie’s EMEA Antitrust & Competition Practice Group as well as the Firm’s global Industrials Manufacturing and Transportation Group. He heads Baker McKenzie’s German antitrust practice and the Firm’s global Competition economics group.
Kasernenstraßeworldwide. 69 Düsseldorf, D-40213 Tel: +49 211 20052 s.moeller@glademichelwirtz.com130www.glademichelwirtz.com
”A smart and talented lawyer”
The global antitrust and competition group of Baker McKenzie comprises over 300 lawyers and professionals in 47 countries. In 2022, Baker McKenzie’s global antitrust practice was, again, ranked in the top five of Global Competition Review’s “Global Elite” ranking.
In the select ranking “Women in Antitrust 2021” the Global Competition Review recognizes her as one of the leading antitrust experts
”Nicolas holds a profound knowledge of competition law and is great to work with”
Nicolas holds a doctorate degree (Dr. iur, s.c.l.) from the University of Munich and an LLM. degree from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He is a member of the German Association of Antitrust Lawyers and the American Bar Association.
Nicolas serves on the advisory board of Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftsverfassung und Wettbewerb , a key think tank on antitrust and competition policy in Germany.
Neuer Zollhof 2 Dusseldorf, D-40221
Nicolas advises clients in EU and German competition law matters, including domestic and international cartel investigations, merger control proceedings and abuse of dominance cases. He routinely leads global projects on antitrust risk prevention (compliance systems), international investigations and transactions. He has in-depth experience in various industries, including auto motive, telecommunications, FMCG/retail and healthcare.Nicolas has more than 15 years of experience in antitrust and competition law. He has authored numerous books and articles on European and German competition law, and is recommended in various directories, including Chambers Global, The Legal 500 and JUVE. In 2020, Nicolas was awarded the ILO Client Choice Award for antitrust (Germany).
Tel: +49 211 31 116 nicolas.kredel@bakermckenzie.com132www.bakermckenzie.com
Glade Michel Wirtz
Moritz is the author of the textbook An Introduction to EU Competition Law (Cambridge University Press) and many other publications. He teaches German and EU competition law at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany. Moritz serves as co-editor of the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice
Silke also renders advice to DAX 30 and other companies of the FMCG, healthcare or mechan ical engineering industries on co-operations in the areas of R&D, purchasing, or distribution. This also includes innovative business models of the digital age like the FCO’s leading case on the compliant configuration of an electronic trading platform. She also acts as Counsel-to-the-Project for nearly the whole German banking landscape in its endeavors to establish a uniform digital payment system (DK-Pay).Shefurther specialises in compliance work. Silke has developed and implemented CMS for a broad range of clients, including a large steel distributor, two major buying alliances, and various renowned manufacturers of branded goods.
Theproceedings.defenceof companies and individuals in various cartel proceedings of the European Commission and the FCO (including “retail food packaging”, “drugstore products”, “meat and sausages”, “sweets”, or “steel purchasing”) is another focus of her work.
Dr Moritz Lorenz is a partner in the Berlin office of Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein specialising in compe tition and State aid law. He advises clients on all aspects of EU and German competition law, in particular on merger control, in connection with cartel infringements, on dominance issues, distri bution systems, cooperations and licences as well as on follow-on damage claims. He develops compliance systems for companies of various industries and has conducted internal investiga tions into compliance incidents in Europe, China and Saudi-Arabia. He also has broad experience with EU state aid matters and advises both govern mental bodies and undertakings and represents them in national and EU courts.
Evelyn Niitväli Niitväli Competition Law
Frankfurt am Main, 60327
He receives accolades as a leading competition lawyer in a number of publications.Kasernenstraße 69
Walter - Benjamin - Platz 6 Berlin, 10629
Tel: +49 211 20052 m.wirtz@glademichelwirtz.com110www.glademichelwirtz.com
Evelyn started her career at Hengeler Mueller in Düsseldorf and Brussels. Prior to founding her own antitrust boutique firm, Evelyn was a co-founding partner of RCAA and headed the German antitrust practice of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in Frankfurt.
Markus Wirtz is the current chair of the Antitrust Committee of the German Federal Bar, a member of the German Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht and the International Bar Association.
The business magazines Wirtschaftswoche and Handelsblatt have named him one of the leading German antitrust lawyers. In 2019 he was also awarded the Client Choice Award in the field of anti trust law in Germany by Lexology. For years, Alex Petrasincu has been listed as one of the leading German antitrust lawyers by the magazines Juve, The Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal Alternative SpeditionstraßeAddress:21– 2, 40221 Düsseldorf +49 211 81 999 200
Alex is specialized in representing parties in cartel damages actions before the German courts, and has advised on damages actions in various jurisdictions. He has been and continues to be involved in some of the largest antitrust damages cases in Germany. Alex has represented parties in and advised on actions before numerous German District Courts, Courts of Appeals, the German Constitutional Court, as well as the European Court of Justice. In addition, Alex has particular experience in conducting internal investigations and representing clients in cartel investigations by the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. His activities for companies affected by the truck cartel as well as for trading companies in the proceedings against German banking asso ciations regarding the merchant fees for the elec tronic cash system have attracted special attention.
Tel: +49 30 322 903 alex.petrasincu@hausfeld.com001www.hausfeld.com
Düsseldorf, D-40213
Peers and clients say: “Mr Wirtz is fantastic in the competition space”
”He is very experienced when it comes to competition issues”
Peers and clients say: “Alex Petrasincu is very active and visible in the market”
”He is a superb litigation lawyer”
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MarkusOffice. has also conducted international merger control filings for CWS-boco, Investor AB, Vivendi or ZF Friedrichshafen; represented clients such as Deutsche Telekom, Total, Samsung or Xerox in various antitrust litigation; and structured and drafted agreements for exclusive or selective distribution for Dyson, Electronic Arts, or Mettler Toledo. An important part of his work pertains to digitisation and IP related antitrust, including SEPs.
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Dr. Alex Petrasincu is Managing Partner at Hausfeld in Germany, specializing in EU and German compe tition law and competition litigation. He advises on all contentious and non-contentious aspects of competition law.
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Evelyn Niitväli is the founder of Niitväli Competition Law, a dedicated antitrust law boutique in Frankfurt. She has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects of German and European antitrust law.
Tel: +49 69 77 03 94
Evelyn has handled various complex merger control proceedings both with the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission. Her merger control experience includes requests for referral to the European Commission, negotiating commitments, coordinating multi-jurisdictional filings, and representing third parties in their inter vention against proposed transactions.
Evelyn is recognised in various directories, including Chambers Europe, The Legal 500 and JUVE
Dr Markus Wirtz is a partner at highly regarded German boutique firm Glade Michel Wirtz.
Peers and clients say: “She is a highly experienced, excellent competition lawyer” ”A superb and extremely responsive ”Ipractitioner”highlyrecommend her – she is practical and very easy to work with”
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”Alex is excellent to work with and is always one step ahead”
Another focus of Evelyn’s practice is in cartel proceedings and abuse of dominance cases with the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission. She assists clients in dawn raids and internal investigations, leniency proceedings, and negotiating settlements with the competition authorities.Evelynregularly represents clients in private antitrust litigation cases and out-of-court settle ment negotiations. She also advises clients regarding antitrust issues in connection with commercial agreements, including complex distri bution structures, research and development coop erations, licence agreements, and joint production agreements.Herexperience spans various industries, including IT and telecommunications, technology, life science, consumer goods, retail, automotive as well as energy and utilities.
”He provides the highest quality of service in minimal time”
Markus has advised companies in cartel investigations concerning industrial bags, indus trial thread, insurance, chemicals, concrete pipes, mortar, steel, rail track technology, automatic doors, food packaging, meat, power transformers, sanitary fittings, sanitary wholesale, luxury cosmetics, drugstore goods, pet food, confec tionery, flour, coffee, beer and pharmacies. He is experienced in internal audits and multiple leniency filings, and has a number of cases pending before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel
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He has published numerous articles on antitrust and merger control law, co-authors the leading German commentary Immenga & Mestmäcker, and contributes the chapters on domi nance to The Handbook of European Competition Law (ed Mäger) and on technology transfer to The Handbook of German and European Competition Law (ed Lange) in German. He is a frequent speaker on EU and German competition law, and a lecturer in law at Leuphana University.
Madách Trade Center 13-14 Madách Imre út 13-14 Budapest, H-1075 Tel: +36 1 429 attila.komives@allenovery.com6007www.allenovery.com
“François has excellent knowledge of antidumping law, trade law and competition law in East “FrançoisAsia”isahighly experienced and well-known competition law practitioner in the market”
Attila Kőmíves Lengyel Allen & Overy Ügyvédi Iroda
Attila Kőmíves is counsel in the Budapest office of Allen & Overy LLP. Attila is a Hungarian-qualified attorney, with over 15 years of experience in competition law matters. He specialises in EU and Hungarian competition law, and also has a wide range of experience in intellectual property and regulatory matters.
Peers and clients say: “He is one of the leading practitioners in competition law in Asia and is extremely well respected”
”He brings a relentless pursuit to discov ering all relevant facts and circumstances - he does not leave any stone unturned”
Bharat Budholia is a partner in the Mumbai office of AZB & Partners. Bharat is regularly sought out by clients for advice on complex and high-pro file matters. He has dealt extensively with the Competition Commission of India (CCI), National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and various high courts in India on competition law matters. He advises on wide range of competition issues, including cartel enforcement, abuse of dominance and merger control.
François Renard Allen & Overy LLP
François is listed as a leading lawyer in a number of the legal directories including WWL: Competition, GCR, Legal 500, IFLR1000 and Chambers Asia Pacific Chambers Asia Pacific 2022 says he “has long been a leading authority in the competition law space”. The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022 highlights his ability to “clearly and succinctly break down and explain complex competition law issues, for lawyer and non-lawyer audiences”.
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
Bharat has represented domestic and multina tional clients across wide range of sectors, including financial services, aviation, cement, banking, insur ance, sports, media, energy, steel, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, transport and telecom sectors.
9th Floor, Three ExchangeHongCentralSquareKong
Tel: +852 2974 francois.renard@allenovery.com7110www.allenovery.com
Beforedatabase.joining Allen & Overy, Attila worked for another international law firm in Budapest. In 2010–2011 he spent five months at the European Commission’s competition directorate, and in 2016 he worked for Allen & Overy’s Brussels office. He holds an LLM from the University of London.
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Bharat’s recent highlights include advising Tata Group’s US$2.4 billion acquisition of one of India’s largest commercial airlines, Air India Limited, Reliance Group’s acquisition of Sterling and Wilson Private Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. in its acquisition of Fullerton India Credit Company Limited. He also assisted Jio Platforms Limited in relation to US$20.6 billion investment from Facebook, Google, Intel and several private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds.
Attila is the author of a number of articles on competition law issues and is a regular speaker at competition law workshops and seminars. He is an active member of the antitrust section of the International Bar Association and the LIDC Hungarian Competition Law Association.
François Renard is a partner in Allen & Overy’s global antitrust group. He has managed the firm’s Greater China antitrust practice since November 2008, when he relocated to Beijing. Prior to this, he was based in Brussels and Paris. He is now based in Hong Kong.
François is qualified to practise in the EU and Hong Kong. He is a lecturer at the Institute of European Studies in Brussels, and in 2014 was invited as a visiting professor to China University of Political Science and Law. He regularly speaks and writes on the subject of antitrust.
Attila recently represented ING in the European Court of Justice in the landmark preliminary ruling procedure C-228/18 Budapest Bank. He also acted for a global financial institution before Hungary’s Supreme Court, which ultimately annulled the Hungarian Competition Authority’s decision in relation to BankAdat, an industry-wide information exchange
Peers and clients say: “Attila has an excel lent eye for detail and is responsive and committed to his client”
”He is very bright minded and knowledge able regarding competition law”
Bharat Budholia AZB & Partners
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competition practice comprises over 120 specialists operating across APAC, Europe and North America. The prac tice advises clients on their global antitrust transac tions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the highest-profile and most complex cases in the market.
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François has more than 25 years of experience advising on multi-jurisdictional antitrust matters and national competition laws, including merger control; anticompetitive agreements and concerted practices; interaction between intellectual property and antitrust laws; abuse of dominance; market investigations; and antitrust compliance. He advises clients from many APAC countries, including the PRC, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as the EU and the US.
Peers and clients say: “Karan is a wellknown name in the competition space” “He is a prominent lawyer with a diverse clientele”
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Naval is qualified to practise in India, New York, England and Wales. He holds an LLB degree from ILS Law College, Pune, and LLM from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining the Firm, Naval spent nearly five years as an associate in the India group at Freshfields Bruckhaus
His recent highlights in cartel and abuse of dominance cases include successfully representing International Air Transport Limited before CCI in relation to an investigation involving alleged abuse of its dominance. He is also representing Board of Control for Cricket in India in two high-profile abuse of dominance investigations. Bharat successfully represented an informant in bringing a cartel action against Tamil Film Producers Council and Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce and obtaining a ceaseand-desist order.
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In the antitrust field, he has represented clients including Microsoft, Facebook, National Stock Exchange, Aditya Birla Group and Uber. In relation to merger control, he has acted in many major national and multi-jurisdictional filings including Konecranes/Terex Avago/ Broadcom, Microsoft/Nokia, and Publicis/Omnicom, all of which were unconditionally cleared.
Peers and clients say: “Naval is excellent with clients”
Karan Chandhiok Chandhiok & Mahajan
”He ensures his clients have a clear picture about the case and the legal position”
Karan is considered a leader in competi tion law by several leading publications such as Chambers and Partners, the Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, International Financial Law Review, Who’s Who Legal and Asia law Leading Lawyers. He has been consistently ranked amongst India’s ‘Top-100’ lawyers since 2017. Karan was named in in GCR’s quadrennial ‘40 under 40’ list in 2020, and in 2022, nominated for the ‘Lawyer of the Year – under 40’ at the GCR Awards.
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C-524 Defence Colony New Delhi, 110024 Tel: +91 11 karan.chandhiok@chandhiok.com41630033www.chandhiok.com
Naval Satarawala Chopra is a partner in the New Delhi-based competition law practice of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas. Naval is a leading compe tition law practitioner in India, counselling clients on contentious and non-contentious competition law matters. He is widely recognised for his exper tise in abuse of dominance, cartel and merger control matters and is acclaimed for his thought leadership and key role in contentious matters and transactions alike. He regularly appears before the Competition Commission of India, the Competition Appellate Tribunal, and the Supreme Court of India.
Naval was recently inducted by Global Competition Review in its list of the world’s top 40 competition lawyers under 40. He is recognised by Chambers and Partners 2015 as a “master strategist” who is known for his “ability to think out-of-the-box and find solutions by balancing the law and commercial considerations”. Naval is the author of the India chapter of the Global Antitrust and Competition Law Compliance Handbook
Karan is co-chair of the National Council on Competition Law and treasurer of the Competition Law Bar Association. Karan has a BCL degree from the University of Oxford with a specialisation in competition law. He is dual-qualified in India and UK.
”Bharat provides clear and business-oriented advice and effectively crafts a litigation strategy from a long-term business perspective”
216, Okhla Industrial Estate, Okhla PhaseIII
New Delhi, 110 020 Tel: +91 11 4159 naval.chopra@amsshardul.com0700www.amsshardul.com
Karan Singh Chandhiok heads the competition law practice group at Chandhiok & Mahajan. His prac tice focusses on advising companies on mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, investigations, complex litigations, and competition law counsel ling. Karan’s diverse range of clients include some of the largest domestic and multinational corpo rations such as Google, Intel, Hyundai, Michelin, Panasonic, HP, Bain Capital, Hellman & Friedman, and Indorama.In2021,Karan represented Intel in the successful closure of a four-year investigation into allegations of abuse of dominance. In the same year, he secured immunity for Trident Limited – this was the first time that a leniency application was granted immunity after the initiation of an investi gation. Karan also represented for Fab Hotels in securing a rare injunction against MakeMyTrip.
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Karan recently advised Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman on their US$17 billion acquisition of Athenahealth. He acted in obtaining unconditional clearance for Clariant’s divestment of its Pigments business to Heubach and SK Capital Partners.
Peers and clients say: “A dedicated and very professional practitioner”
“He is very knowledgeable about the Indian “Hemarket”analyses competition issues from various angles and is very effective”
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Bharat is ranked as leading individual by major directories, including WWL: Competition, Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 AsiaPacific and Legal Era
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Peers and clients say: “Ms Shroff is “Notoutstanding”onlyis she experienced, but she’s respected by everyone in the market”
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Ziv Abramovich is a partner at Lapidot, Melchior, Abramovich & Co and heads its competition practice. Before turning to private practice, he worked for five years (1997 to 2002) at the Israeli Competition Authority (ICA), where he was head of the enforcement and compliance department and a member of the authority’s senior management.
Shweta Shroff Chopra is a partner in the firm’s competition law practice in New Delhi. She has over 10 years’ experience in advising on financing, corporate and competition law matters. Shweta has been practisng competition law since its early days, having been involved in several high-profile cases relating to abuse of dominance, cartels and mergerShweta’scontrol.clients encompass prominent names of the industry, inlcuding HDFC Limited, Apollo Tyres, Coal India Limited, Holcim Group of Companies, Vodafone India Limited, Bharti Airtel, Temasek group, and PVR Cinemas. Shweta has been engaged in leading high profile enforcement cases before the CCI and the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) including representing HDFC Limited in the Bank Prepayment Charges case, Jindal Steel & Power Limited against Steel Authority of India Limited, Holcim group compa nies ACC Limited and Ambuja Cements Limited in the Cement cartel case, Apollo Tyres Limited in the Tyres cartel case, Coal India Limited in abuse of dominance and cartel cases in relation to procure ment of explosives, and Vodafone India Limited in an anti-competitive tie–in in a case involving the sale of Apple AccordingiPhones.toChambers and Partners 2015, Shweta Shroff Chopra is described by market sources as “a very smart lawyer with an in-depth approach, who has worked on big-ticket cases.”
Ziv was vice chairman of the Israeli Bar Association’s antitrust committee (2003 to 2007) and is an active member of the IBA antitrust committee. Ziv regularly publishes articles and reports, in Israel and worldwide, on competition developments and is the Israeli correspondent of Global Competition Review and the IBA’s antitrust committee newsletter.
Peers and clients say: “A trusted advisor to her clients” ”A valuable part of a market-leading practice”
Ziv has extensive experience in the domestic and international implications of civil and crim inal antitrust issues, both from a regulator’s and private practitioner’s perspective. He regularly advises leading Israeli and foreign clients on various competition matters and represents them in front of the ICA , the Competition Tribunal and other competent courts. Ziv also frequently advises and represents multinational clients regarding the Israeli aspects of international mergers and acquisitions, and is highly recommended by leading international law firms.
Ziv was invited by the ICA as a non-govern mental adviser to the ICN annual conference in Kyoto, Japan, in 2008.
Before joining the firm, Shweta qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales and worked with Clifford Chance, London. She has an LLB degree from University of Wales, Cardiff, and an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ms Pallavi S Shroff is the Managing Partner of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, with over 37 years of experience. She mentors the Competition Law practice and heads the Dispute Resolution practice. Her representation of public and private corpo rations and other entities before various national courts, tribunals and legal institutions has earned her national and international acclaim. She regu larly argues competition law cases before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal. Given her vast experience and expertise across legal domains, she brings unparalleled commercial judgement to complex cases.
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Peers and clients say: “Mr Abramovich is a notable competition practitioner in the market” “An experienced practitioner who has dealt with significant competition matters for over two decades”
Ms. Shroff was a member of the Competition Law Review Committee, constituted by the Government of India to ensure that the legislation is in tune with the changing business environment. She has been a key member of the high-powered SVS Raghavan Committee, which contributed to formu lating the legal framework for the new Competition law and a draft of the new Competition
Ziv holds LLB (1996) and LLM (1999) degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and serves as a visiting lecturer on competition law at several academic institutions in Israel.
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Lapidot, Melchior, Abramovich & Co is a highly recommended competition law firm in Israel. It has been elected as one of Israel’s leading antitrust law firms by GCR 100, since 2008.
She provided strategic advice to ZF Friedrichshafen in relation to the initial refusal of the CCI to allow more time for the divestment of Brakes India, including seeking relief from the Delhi High Court; advised ZF in obtaining CCI approval for the proposed global acquisition of WABCO Holdings; advised Flipkart in relation to its challenge of a CCI order in proceedings before the CCI, the Karnataka High Court and the Supreme Court; advised ChrysCapital on its CCI process after the short form notification (i.e., Form I) in acqui sition of less than 5% shareholding of Intas. She also advised Blackstone for its investments in the Future Group in A Form III which was filed with the CCI after completion of the transaction.
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D Ziv Abramovich Lapidot Melchior Abramovich & Co
Levinstein Tower 23 Menachem Begin Rd Tel Aviv, 6618356 Tel: +972 77 www.lma-law.comziv@lma-law.com5638070
”He has impressed with his involvement in some of the main criminal proceedings handled by the ICA”
“He has exceptional in-depth understanding and knowledge of the legal and economic aspects of the financial market”
Tal Eyal-Boger FISCHER (FBC Co.)
146 Menachem Begin Rd. Tel Aviv, 6492103 Tel: +972 3 694 teyal@fbclawyers.com4141www.fbclawyers.com
Ms Eyal-Boger, a partner and head of the compe tition and antitrust group at FBC & Co, is inter nationally recognised as one of Israel’s leading competition and antitrust practitioners.
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Eytan received his law degree from the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University (LLB, 1984). After being admitted to the Israel Bar in 1985, he worked in DG IV (now the Directorate-General for Competition) in Brussels. He established his law firm in 1989, which merged with M Firon & Co. in 2016. Eytan served as lecturer and assistant professor at the Tel Aviv University Law School and taught EU compe tition and international trade law at the Tel Aviv Business College.
Tel: +972 3 754 epstein@firon.co.il8670www.firon.co.il
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Eyal-Boger earned her LLB degree (cum laude, 1994) from the Tel Aviv University and is currently attending the Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA programme. She is frequently invited to comment and lecture on competition matters at the Israel Bar Association, the Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and before various other legal and busi ness forums. She has taught competition law at the COMAS Law School (Israel’s largest and oldest college) and acted as an NGA to the European Commission at the International Competition Network as well as an NGA in the 2018 ICN cartel workshop.
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Peers and clients say: “Eytan is very prag matic and has creative, out-of-the-box “Hisideas”knowledge and experience beyond competition law is very valuable”
Eytan has rich practical experience in managing negotiations in a range of complex deals in Israel and overseas, and he is known as a dealmaker due to his ability to think “outside the box” and propose creative business solutions while defusing conflicts. Eytan has rich experience in appearing before the Israel Competition Authority, the Competition Tribunal and courts. Eytan has extensive experience in providing day-to-day consultancy to business clients in the banking and credit card sector, communications, industry, hightech, pharmaceuticals, retail and more.
Her expertise is widely based on her vast experience representing clients in complex liti gation cases, including in class actions (defence side), in investigations by the Israeli Competition Authority and in ongoing interaction with the Israeli Competition Authority. Her experience is also based on providing ongoing advice to clients on various competition matters, including by creating and implementing compliance programmes.
Ms Eyal-Boger represents global leading clients as well as local companies from an array of industries including banking, energy, retail, dairy, communications, media, technology, agriculture, automotive and transportation. Among her clients are Google, Volvo, RBS, ABB, Tnuva, Bezeq and others.Ms
Ms Eyal-Boger is consistently figured in Who’s Who Legal. She was the only Israeli lawyer in GCR’s list of the best worldwide antitrust practitioners under 40 and has also repeatedly featured in its list of the 100 leading women worldwide prac ticing competition law. GCR consistently ranks FBC’s competition and antitrust practice among the leading practices worldwide, placing it in the top “elite” tier.
Peers and clients say: “Tal is an extremely talented name for competition”
”She’s a very experienced figure in the market”
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Eytan Epstein is a senior partner at M Firon & Co, with more than 30 years’ practical experi ence in antitrust and competition law, business and commercial law, and M&A. He is recognised as a national leader in competition matters, and is known worldwide as an expert in antitrust and cross-border M&A. His experience and his work over many years, together with the many publi cations and articles he has written and his posi tion as a lecturer in his areas of expertise in Israel and abroad, place Eytan among the top ranks of eminent and esteemed lawyers. He is recom mended in such terms by the leading Israeli and international legal guides.
Ms Eyal-Boger’s practice focuses on various competition and antitrust related matters – cartels and restrictive arrangements, abusive behaviour by monopolies, regulation of oligopolies and merger of companies. She regularly represents clients in civil and criminal courts, as well as in administrative courts, including the competition tribunal.
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Mazor Matzkevich M Firon & Co Advocates
Ms Matzkevich is a partner at M Firon & Co, heading the firm’s competition, antitrust and regulatory affairs department. She has extensive experience of advising leading global and Israeli companies in the antitrust aspects of complex transactions and commercial agreements, such as foreign-toforeign and inter-jurisdiction M&A through merger notification and approval process before the Israeli Competition Authority.
Tel: +81 3 6775 shigeyoshi.ezaki@amt-law.com1040www.amt-law.com
2 Hashlosha St Tel Aviv, 6706054
Peers and clients say: “Kei is excellent for “Keiantitrust”isvery intelligent and respected by many clients for his experience and insightful advice”
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Mr. Amemiya received his LLB from Chuo University and an LLM from the University of Michigan Law School. He is admitted to practise law in Japan and the state of New York.
Tel: +81 3 3217 amemiya-k@shimada-law.jp5100www.shimada-law.jp
“He possesses an excellent network within the antitrust community”
Kei Amemiya
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Ms Matzkevich is also an expert in antitrust litiga tion, including administrative and criminal cases, and in representing defendants in class actions, special ising in class actions brought against global incor porations allegedly involved in international cartels.
Before joining private practice in 2010 (as a partner at Epstein Chomsky Osnat & Co, which later merged into M Firon), Ms Matzkevich served as a staff attorney in the North-East Regional Office of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Ms Matzkevich began her antitrust career in 1998 at the Israeli Competition Authority, and in 2001 became head of its criminal section. Matzkevich supervised the Authority’s prosecutors in criminal cases and personally led its key criminal cases. She was also responsible for the Authority’s regulatory activity in the water and environment sectors.
Peers and clients say: “Mazor is a brilliant competition lawyer” “
In 2004, Mr. Amemiya returned to private prac tice at Morrison Forster Tokyo, where he advised clients from a wide variety of industries on the full range of antitrust issues. His work included prec edent setting investigations as well as internation ally recognized merger reviews. He joined Shimada Hamba & Osajima in 2020 and continues to provide business oriented advice to clients worldwide.
Ms Matzkevich is admitted to the bars of New York State (2002) and Israel (1998). She has an LLB (1997) and an LLM (2013) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is the co-author of the Israeli chap ters in Merger Control (2011, 2014 and 2017), Cartels Enforcement, Appeals and Damages Action (2019) and The Private Competition Review
Kei Amemiya is a partner at Shimada Hamba & Osajima, and leads its antitrust and competition practice.Mr.Amemiya, who has 30 years of experience, previously served as Investigator at the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC). He offered unique insights there as the first attorney hired under a special law for the provision of legal expertise within the JFTC, and played a leading role in numerous model-making cases in the areas of cartel/bid rigging, private monopolisation and unfair trade practices, to help develop JFTC practice today.
Tel: +972 3 mazorm@firon.co.il7540800www.firon.co.il
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During her six-year tenure at the FTC, Ms Matzkevich was the lead or co-counsel on merger and non-merger cases involving various indus tries, including high-tech, retail, pharmaceuticals, agro-chemistry, energy, hospitals and food.
Shigeyoshi Ezaki is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune with a general corporate practice, which includes advising and assisting Japanese and foreign clients with respect to Japanese competition law, trade regulation, intellectual prop erty law and corporate law. He represents many companies involved in cross-border mergers and acquisitions as well as joint venture arrangements. He also assists many clients in regulatory inves tigations with respect to price fixing and similar serious alleged violations before the Japan Fair Trade Commission as well as overseas regulatory authorities such as the US Department of Justice and the European Commission. He also represents many companies and assists them with distribution agreements and licence agreements.
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Peers and clients say: “He is one of the most well-known antitrust lawyers in Japan” “Esaki is very active in international antitrust “Helaw” is very responsive and is a great coordinator” Japan
She has broad experience providing legal advice to the private sector”
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Mr Ezaki is a graduate of the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1992) and Columbia University School of Law (LLM, 1998). He is admitted to the bar in both Japan and New York. He co-authored “Merger Control in Japan” (The Asia Pacific Antitrust Review, 2010) and Chambers Global Practice Guides on Cartels 2021 - Law & Practice
He has developed a broad network in the course of his career and has a wealth of experi ence working with Fortune 500 clients, counsel and agency officials all over the world.
As a non-governmental adviser (NGA) of International Competition Network (ICN), Mr Amemiya has long advised the JFTC and various ICN working groups from a private counsel perspective. He is also a frequent speaker at ICN and other conferences in Japan and abroad. He has been serving as a senior director of the Japan Competition Law Forum.
“He is particularly active in cases with an international component”
Yoshi has been representing multinational companies before the JFTC in international cartels and second phase review merger cases. Yoshi also advises on IP-related antitrust issues such as licensing and standard-essential patents (SEPs), making the best use of his experience in the IP/IT taskforce at the JFTC. He has additional expertise in consumer protection issues, such as false adver tising, as well as anti-bribery issues.
Kentaro Hirayama Hirayama Law Offices
Kentaro Hirayama’s practice focuses on compe tition and antitrust law and government regula tions. He has counselled European, American, Asian and Japanese clients in a number of cartels, unfair trade practice and abuse of standard essen tial patents, as well as merger filings including high-profile Phase II cases.
Tel: +81 3 6823 kentaro@hirayamalaw.com5318
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Yoshi is a graduate of Kyoto University (LLB, 2002) and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) (LLM, 2008). He is admitted in Japan, New York and California. His comments have been quoted in the most popular financial newspaper in Japan, the Nikkei, more than 60 times.Yurakucho
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Saori Hanada is a partner at Atsumi & Sakai and the head of the firm’s antitrust/competition practice group. She has extensive experience in advising on both domestic and international cartel cases, including internal audits, leniency appli cations, civil enforcement and criminal prosecu tions in various jurisdictions such as the US, the EU, Canada, Singapore and India. She also advises clients on merger control and other competition law issues under antitrust/competition laws such as vertical restraints and business collaboration between competitors. She regularly advises clients, including multinational companies, on imple menting competition compliance programmes in a practical and effective manner that suits their business needs. Recently, she was named a distinguished practitioner in her practice area by Asialaw (2022), and Best Lawyers in Japan (2023). She earned a BA and an MA in political science at Waseda University; and an LLM at Columbia Law School in the USA. She is admitted to the Japanese Bar (2000) and the New York Bar (2012).
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He has been appointed as an officer of IBA’s antitrust committee since 2017. He frequently serves as a speaker at international conferences, such as the ICN (as a non-governmental adviser (NGA)) and IBA.
Since returning to private practice in 2011, he has been active as a non-governmental adviser (NGA) for the International Competition Network (ICN), a forum for approximately 100 national competition agencies worldwide. In addition, he also serves as an associate professor at Kyushu University where he lectures on compe tition law.Tokyo
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His skill and experience in competition and antitrust law is widely recognised, and in 2016 he was the only Japanese attorney named in Global Competition Review’s “40 Under 40” list of the world’s leading antitrust lawyers under the age of 40.Mr Hirayama worked for the Japan Fair Trade Commission from July 2007 to June 2010, during which time he was a case manager in the Marine Hose case, among other high-profile international cartel cases, and also led an abuse of dominance case. In the course of these worldwide parallel investigations, he collaborated with foreign compe tition authorities in engagements such as informa tion exchanges and coordination of simultaneous dawn raids, among others.
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Tsuyoshi (Yoshi) Ikeda is a founding partner of Ikeda & Someya, an antitrust boutique which was estab lished in October 2018. Starting with two founding partners, Ikeda & Someya has marked a rapid growth and as of May 2022, it has 14 lawyers and they opened their office in Osaka this May.
Peers and clients say: “Saori is very responsive and client-orientated” ”She knows her brief very well”
“He has strong entrepreneurial sense”
Peers and clients say: “He is diligent and “Kentarodependable”has a high degree of profession alism and practical knowledge”
As a former official of the Investigation Bureau of the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), Yoshi has extensive experience in all aspects of antitrust/ competition issues. At the JFTC, he engaged in, among others, the implementation of the leniency programme in Japan and as many as 20 dawn raids. Prior to establishing Ikeda & Someya, Yoshi worked for Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, one of the Big Four law firms in Japan, where he led a number of cutting-edge cases.
Tel: +81 50 1745 tsuyoshi.ikeda@ikedasomeya.com4777
Peers and clients say: “Tsuyoshi is passionate about the law”
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obtained an LLB from Waseda University, Tokyo. She was the first Japanese student to study EU law at the University of Amsterdam’s Europa Instituut.
Setsuko also is well known for her extensive knowledge of EU competition law, and acted as a board member of the EU Studies Association in Japan. She taught EU law at Keio University Law School and other graduate schools. She regularly publishes articles and books on the subject.
Peers and clients say: “Yusuke is a very talented competition lawyer”
Kees regularly publishes on competition law issues and has previously served as the chair of the Dutch Association for Competition Law.
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Setsuko headed for 13 years the firm’s anti trust/competition team, advising on international and domestic antitrust/competition matters and cases.Since 2016, she has served as a member of the antitrust policy council of the Japan Fair Trade Commission. She has also served as a board member of the Japan Competition Law Forum.
Setsuko Yufu Atsumi & Sakai
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Chambers Europe (2022) says: “Kees Schillemans is a very sharp lawyer, who is able to bring back complicated issues to the core”, and that he provides “clear and to-the-point advice”.
Setsuko was named Woman Lawyer of the Year at the 2017 ALB Japan Law Awards, and was inducted into the 2022 The Legal 500 Hall of Fame as a leading individual in antitrust/compe tition law. She was ranked as Thought Leaders Competition 2022 (Japan) by WWL and awarded the honor of Lawyer of the Year Japan in Client Service Excellence (2020) in asialaw. She was ranked as a leading antitrust/competition lawyer by The Best Lawyers (2023) and by Chambers Asia-Pacific (2022). She was also highly recommended in the GCR 100 (2021).Setsuko
Setsuko Yufu is a senior partner at Atsumi & Sakai and is admitted to the bar in Japan. She is a member of the managing committee of the firm.
Tel: +81 3 6266 yusuke.takamiya@mhm-global.com8744www.mhmjapan.com
Yusuke Takamiya is an antitrust partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto; the International Competition Network’s non-governmental adviser to the JFTC; and former researcher at the Competition Policy Research Centre of the JFTC. Mr Takamiya provides a wide range of legal advice on antitrust/competition laws such as merger controls, cartel/leniency matters, unilateral conducts and unfair trade practices. Mr Takamiya also has significant expertise on cases requiring multilateral responses (eg, the EU, the US and China), and regularly collaborates with major inter national law firms around the world.
Mr Takamiya not only advises on clients’ issues with the antitrust/competition authorities, but is also involved in consultation relating to clients’ compliance with antitrust/competition laws. In addition to traditional antitrust/competition law issues, Mr Takamiya energetically engages in the analysis and examination of legal issues under antitrust/competition laws when companies start brand-new business.
”Yusuke boasts excellent industry experience”
Peers and clients say: “Setsuko is a recog nized and respected international antitrust “Particularlylawyer” impressive in advising on European regulation to Japanese clients”
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Mr Takamiya has significant expertise in inter national antitrust/competition laws and policies. With regard to US antitrust law, he also has experi ence of serving as a research assistant to Professor Eleanor M Fox, as an international attorney at the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and as an international competition consultant at the Federal Trade Commission. He also has a postgraduate diploma European competition law from King’s College London. Mr. Takamiya has been listed in “40 under 40” for 2020 published by GCR (Global Competition Review) as the only Japanese winner.With his broad background, Mr Takamiya also provides advices on emerging competition law issues such as digital competition, crossover field of IP and competition and competition law and sustainability (SDGs).Marunouchi Park Building 2-6-1 Marunouchi,Tokyo,Chiyoda-ku100-8222
”He is a future star”
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Kees Schillemans specialises in EU and competi tion law. He regularly represents clients in proceed ings before competition and regulatory authorities and courts.Keeshas extensive experience in cartel and merger control proceedings before the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) and the European Commission, including in the telecommunication and media sectors. He also advises and litigates on matters of EU law and private enforcement of competition law, including cartel damages cases.
Peers and clients say: “Kees is very smart - a technically excellent lawyer”
”He is very pragmatic and easy to work with” ”Kees is excellent” Netherlands
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Peers and clients say: “He’s been oper ating in the business for a long time and has a wide scope of expertise”
Arlene Maneja
She has extensive experience in M&A transac tions involving highly-regulated entities. Her work highlights include the US$1.5 billion acquisition by the PLDT of telco Digitel, the US$5 billion acquisi tion by GIP of Equis Energy and the US$1.3 billion bidding for the LRT1 System. Recently, she also acted for Grab Holdings in its US$40 billion merger with Altimeter Growth – the largest SPAC deal.
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Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig AS
Norway Philippines
In merger control, she advised Sanofi in its acquisition of Boehringer Ingelheim’s consumer healthcare business (the first merger clearance after a full review) and GlaxoSmithKline in its acqui sition of Pfizer’s consumer healthcare business (unconditionally cleared after Phase II review). She also represented Grab in its acquisition of Uber’s business in the Philippines, which remains the only case of motu proprio review by the PCC. This deal was chosen as Asian Legal Business’ 2018 M&A Deal of the Year and Philippine Deal of the Year and Ms. Maneja was also named Young Lawyer of the
Tjarda van der Vijver specialises in competition law and sector-specific regulation. He regularly repre sents clients in proceedings before competition and regulatory authorities and courts.
Ms. Maneja specializes in M&As, PPPs, power and energy, TMT, and competition law.
Filipstad Brygge 1 PO Box 2043 Vika Oslo, 0125
”Tjarda is a good communicator and case manager”
Wiig’s highly acclaimed tech nology sector experience has given us experience in matters that are very complex in nature and the competition team’s ability to interact with lawyers that are highly specialised within their fields is something that Simonsen believes gives them a competitive edge compared to more traditional firms. The firm’s culture is built on being creative, flexible and always finding the best solution for the clients’ business.
Before joining Allen & Overy, Tjarda worked as a senior case handler at the Dutch Competition Authority. Tjarda is also active as a guest lecturer and successfully defended his PhD on the abuse prohibition at Leiden University in 2014.
Jan graduated from law school at the time when Norway became a party to the EEA Agreement when the EU Competition rules became applicable in Norway. Because of studies abroad, and expe rience from Brussels, Jan soon started to work with competition law and was given the opportunity to head one of Norway’s leading competition law practices. Since then, he has had the opportunity to work in this field for clients within a very wide range of industries. He now works for companies in the technology, media, telecoms, energy and transport sectors, often in cases that are critical to the clients’ business and helping them make smartSimonsendecisions.Vogt
Ms. Maneja co-authored the Philippine chapter in Getting the Deal Through: Vertical Agreements. She is also recognized as a “Distinguished Practitioner,” Competition/Antitrust by Asialaw in 2020, 2021 and 2022. She is ranked in the 2022 WWL Southeast Asia Guide for Competition and recognized as a Leader in the 2021 and 2022 GCR’s Who’s Who Legal: Competition. Through her efforts, the Firm won the inaugural Antitrust and Competition Team of the Year award given by The Legal 500 for ammaneja@syciplaw.com105SyCipLaw2020/2021.CenterPaseodeRoxasMakatiCity,1226Tel:+63289823500www.syciplaw.com
“Arlene is adept and committed”
Tjarda van der Vijver Allen & Overy LLP
Peers and clients say: “Arlene Maneja is a seasoned practitioner with an excellent “Shepractice”isvery knowledgeable on Philippine merger control”
”Great knowledge of EU law”
Jan Magne Langseth
Jan Magne Langseth heads the competition law team at Simonsen Vogt Wiig in Oslo and has more than 20 years of experience in competition law. He has also worked as a legal officer for the EFTA Surveillance Authority in Brussels and has pleaded numerous cases before the Luxembourg courts. Merger control is a significant part of his current practice and he has been lead in many cases before the Norwegian Competition Authority in a large number of complex merger cases.
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
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”He is an inspiring lawyer”
Tel: +47 21 95 55 jmjl@svw.no11www.svw.no
Year.She also advises clients on antitrust impli cations of business ventures, non-compete arrangements (including employment-related non-compete clauses) and similar activities.
Tjarda has extensive experience in merger control proceedings and also advises on the cartel and abuse prohibitions. Recent work includes acting for the Dutch telecoms and postal incum bents, major players in the Dutch waste and insur ance sectors, and several cases in the energy sector. He regularly advises on the interplay between sustainability and competition.
Peers and clients say: “Tjarda possesses a sharp legal mind and practical approach”
Peers and clients say: “Marta is one of the leaders in the market”
He represents numerous international clients before the European Commission, European and Portuguese courts as well as the Portuguese Competition Authority. His practice focuses on merger control, abuse of dominance, national and international cartels, vertical and horizontal agreements, private enforcement, state aid, unfair competition, and other general EU law areas. Gonçalo works with major players, particularly in the Energy, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Life Sciences, Finance and Technology, Media & Telecommunications sectors.
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”She is a renowned competition law expert”
Marta Sendrowicz Allen & Overy A. Pędzich sp.k.
Gonçalo Anastácio is the Head Partner of the EU & Competition Department at SRS Advogados in Lisbon, one of the largest Competition practices in Portugal. With over 25 years of experience in this field of law, he joined the office as a junior assis tant in 1998. In 2001, he was seconded to the EU & Competition Department of the London office of Simmons & Simmons, of which he later became partner. He has been a board member of SRS Advogados since 2012.
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Poland
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Gonçalo has been involved in many of the higher-profile competition and regulatory cases in Portugal and is consistently recommended in the top band by the reference specialist publications, including, further to Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500 (Hall of Fame) and Chambers
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Gonçalo is currently the President of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Competition Commission for Portugal and has been member of working groups on draft proposals for the transposition of European Directives and prepa ration of competition-specific statutes. Portugal
Marta has a well-established practice repre senting clients in antitrust investigations, including those initiated by leniency applications. She assists clients on strategic risk-management projects and day-to-day compliance matters by reviewing their business structures, and is a keen advocate of new business models reflecting clients’ needs and marketShechallenges.hashandled cases for multinational and regional clients, PE houses, financial institutions, advising leading players operating in various industries.TheWarsaw competition practice is accorded “Elite” status in GCR. Marta is regularly listed as one of Poland’s leading competition/antitrust lawyers in the principal legal directories, including The Legal 500 (2021) and Chambers Europe (2021). “Marta Sendrowicz is extremely thoughtful and has a gift of simplifying complex problems to which she always manages to find finds a practical solution. She is a top performer and a pleasure to work with. She combines wisdom with down to earth practica bility and does it in an elegant way.” The Legal 500, 2021 (Competition/Antitrust)
Marta graduated from the law faculty at Warsaw University in 1994. She has an LLM in EU law from Maastricht University, and a PhD in competition law from Warsaw University (2001). Marta lectured up to 2016 on EU law and EU compe tition law at Warsaw University.
Gonçalo Anastácio SRS Advogados
”Marta is an excellent lawyer with a solid reputation”
Dr Marta Sendrowicz is a partner in Allen & Overy’s Warsaw office, and heads the Central and Eastern European EU and competition practice. She advises on a wide range of behavioural matters and high-profile mergers before the national competi tion authority and the European Commission.
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Gonçalo works in English and Portuguese, is fluent in Spanish and French and has a basic knowl edge of Italian and German.
Peers and clients say: “Gonçalo has exper tise on competition issues and power sector legal ”Gonçaloissues”istechnically great and gives great attention to client. Absolutely reliable”
He is also a member of several scientific bodies and reviews including the Circle of Portuguese Competition Lawyers, of which he was one of the founders and its first secretary general and is currently a member of the Advisory Board. Gonçalo was also part of the first group of practitioners to receive the title of Specialist Lawyer in European and Competition Law from the Portuguese Law SocietyLaw(2004).graduate from the University of Coimbra (1995), he holds a postgraduate in European Studies from the Collège des Hautes Études Européennes of Sorbonne (Paris I) and a masters in European Law from the Lisbon University (Clássica), where he was a teacher (Assistente) for a decade at the under graduate level and subsequently for the post grad uate course on Competition and Regulatory Law among others, mostly on the topics of European Law, Competition Law, Law of the Economy and RegulatoryGonçaloLaw.isa regular speaker at top interna tional and national Competition Law conferences and seminars, including the ICN, ICC, UNCTAD, FIDE and UIA conferences as well as on postgrad uate and masters studies at reference universities.
”He provides timely responses, high level of technical expertise and an extraordinary industry knowledge”
Sara is also highly experienced in merger control proceedings, having represented clients from several business areas, such as banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, consumer goods and healthcare services.
Sara has also considerable experience in abuse of dominance practices, having acted for an ice-cream company in 2008 in an investigation by the Portuguese Competition Authority into its cabinet exclusivity practices, which was ultimately closed with no fine being applied.
Rua Dom Francisco Manuel de Melo, 21 Lisbon, 1070-085 Tel: +351 21 313 sara.estimamartins@srslegal.pt2000www.srslegal.pt
Sara Estima Martins SRS Advogados
Rua D Francisco Manuel de Melo, 21 Lisbon, 1070-085 Tel: +351 21 313 goncalo.anastacio@srslegal.pt2000www.srslegal.pt
Sara is also experienced in matters of EU law, in particular freedom of movement, struc tural funds, the common agricultural policy and access to documents of the European Union institutions, often representing clients before the European Commission and the Court of Justice. She acted on behalf of a number of European tomato processing companies before the EU courts in two actions against the European Commission: one case related to an action for damages for the loss resulting from the Commission’s calcula tion of the amount of the production aid for the 2000/01 marketing year; the other case related to an action for the annulment of certain provisions of Commission Regulations adopted in the fruit and vegetables sector. She has also represented several clients in preliminary rulings before the Court of SaraJustice.hasbeen a speaker at a number of competition law conferences. She is a member of the Executive Committee of W@CompetitionIberia which was launched in 2018 as the Iberian branch of W@Competition. In 2019, Sara helped organize and was a speaker at the first conference of W@ CompetitionIberia, which took place in Lisbon.
Sara has been involved in most of the major competition matters in Portugal, having repre sented several companies in proceedings before the Portuguese Competition Authority and the national courts. Most notably: she has acted for clients in several cartel cases, including the so-called catering cartel case, which ultimately was declared time barred; she successfully represented the leniency applicant in the information exchange case in the banking sector; she is currently repre senting a supplier in a major investigation by the Portuguese Competition Authority into the food retail sector, in which several companies have already been fined for hub & spoke practices; and she is also representing a company involved in the Portuguese Competition Authority’s investigation into the healthcare sector.
Sara is listed in Who’s Who Legal: Competition, Chambers Europe, The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers
Peers and clients say: “She is able to communicate the legal opinions in a way which is “Iunderstandable”wasimpressed by Sara’s client management and technical skills”
Sara Estima Martins obtained her law degree from the University of Coimbra Law School in 2002. After completing her training at PLMJ, she was admitted to the Lisbon Bar in 2004. Sara also has an LLM in EU Law from the College of Europe in Belgium, having focused her studies on Competition Law. In 2005, Sara worked at in the Competition Law Department of Allen & Overy in Madrid, as a secondee associate. From 2006 until 2020, Sara worked at PLMJ, where she became a partner in the EU and Competition practice in 2016. In 2021, Sara moved to SRS as a partner.
He is widely published, both in specialist media and at an academic level. Gonçalo co-edited two major market reference works: the “Lisbon Treaty”, an article-by-article commentary that gathers around 200 Portuguese experts and the first ever commentary to the European Treaties in the Portuguese language (also available in English); and the Coimbra’s article-by-article commentary on the Portuguese Competition Law (3rd edition is currently under preparation).
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Sara’s experience covers all competition law matters, including merger operations, cartels and other horizontal practices, vertical agreements, abuses of dominant position and state aid. She regularly advises clients on the implementation of internal competition law compliance programmes.
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Singapore
”He is a very knowledgeable and efficient operator for merger control filings in Singapore”
Chong Kin is highly regarded by his peers, clients and rivals alike as a leading competition lawyer in Singapore. He is featured in various ranking publications, including: Who’s Who Legal, Chambers, Asialaw Leading Lawyers, The Legal 500 , and Expert Guides’ World’s Leading Competition & Antitrust Lawyers/Economists.
Rafael has a degree in law and an LLM in European Community Law, both from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Chong Kin is noted as “a highly regarded prac titioner, particularly renowned for being a leader for competition issues in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors, as well as many other industries,” and for being an “innovative competition lawyer who is savvy and practical”. Other sources add that, “[Chong Kin] provides very practical strategies to mitigate risk and his advice is always very actionable.”
Chong Kin Lim Drew & Napier LLC
”He has long standing experience in competition, especially in the telecoms market”
Peers and clients say: “Chong Kin is a renowned competition practitioner”
Rafael Baena Ashurst LLP
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In tandem with the development of competition law in ASEAN, Chong Kin is also actively involved with assisting clients to comply with competition law requirements in the region. In 2008, Chong Kin led an international consortium that was awarded a prestigious project to study and recommend competition policy and law for implementation in the ASEAN economies. He is also regularly invited as a speaker at conferences on ASEAN competi tion law.Chong Kin is co-editor of Singapore’s first comprehensive competition law text book, Competition Law and Policy in Singapore (2009). He also authored the competition chapter in Law Relating to Specific Contracts in Singapore (2008).
Chong Kin has worked on several market studies commissioned by the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS), now the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) and the sectoral competition regulators, which includes leading the CCS’s first ever competition study on price recommenda tions by trade and professional associations, and a subsequent study on the medical services sector. He was also part of the consortium team assessing the economic effects of the Block Exemption Order for liner shipping agreements.
#10-01 Ocean Financial Centre Singapore, 049315 Tel: +65 6531 chongkin.lim@drewnapier.com4110www.drewnapier.com
Rafael is partner and head of the Competition and EU Law department of Ashurst Spain. Prior to joining Ashurst in January 2006, he had devel oped his career in the competition teams of other international law firms in Madrid, Brussels and Washington, DC.
Alcalá, 44 Madrid, 28014 Tel: +34 91 364 rafael.baena@ashurst.com9800www.ashurst.com
Peers and clients say: “Rafael is a highly reputed practitioner”
Chong Kin is known for his expertise in drafting “first-of-its-kind” competition legislation, having been involved in competition and regulatory matters for over 20 years. He regularly acts for competition regulators on liberalisation, market access, merger reviews, appeals and enforcement issues. Chong Kin was appointed lead Singapore counsel for drafting of the Telecom Competition Code in 2000, 2004 and 2010; he also drafted the first Media Market Conduct Code in 2002 and the Postal Competition Code in 2008; and he is assisting Singapore’s merged telecom and media regulator on the convergence of the telecommu nications and media competition codes. He also advised the Minister of Trade and Industry on an appeal involving competition, among other matters, in the energy sector.
”He is an excellent lawyer”
Chong Kin is Managing Director, Corporate & Finance with Drew & Napier LLC. He heads both the Competition, Consumer and Regulatory; and the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practices. Chong Kin is also co-head of the Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity practice, as well as the Drew Data Protection & Cybersecurity Academy.
Rafael specializes in Competition and EU Law, with special attention to cases of restrictive conduct (agreements between companies and abuse of dominant position), merger control, competition in regulated sectors, private enforcement of anti trust law (including both stand-alone and follow-on damages actions), and Competition law in Latin America. Rafael has wide experience in the digital & technology, retail & distribution, financial services & insurance, infrastructure, content production (including publishing), and pharma sectors. He has headed the Competition and EU Law department since 2010 and was recognized as one of the best Spanish lawyers under the age of 40 in the Forty under 40 Awards (2013 edition) organised by the publication Iberian Lawyer. Moreover, Rafael is a proactive member in the Spanish Association of Competition Law (Asociación Española de Defensa de la Competencia), actively participating as a speaker in many Competition Law events and teaching at prestigious universities.
”Rafael is very articulate” Spain
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He routinely assists in international cartel investigations by the CCCS, and defended a multi-national financial services company under investigation for entering into an anticompetitive agreement.Chong Kin also regularly advises a range of multinational companies and local corporations on competition matters, including merger filings, transaction reviews and compliance programmes.
Benoît Merkt is also head of the firm’s Foundations and Philanthropy practice group. A renowned expert in the legal structuring of chari table foundations in Switzerland, he has been one of the country’s leading advisors in this area for the past 20 years. Benoît Merkt has incorporated some of the most significant foundations for global philanthropists. He serves on the Board and acts as Chairman of several major Swiss charitable foundations.BenoîtMerkt holds a law degree from the University of Neuchâtel (1992; doctorate in law2001) and a MJur from the University of Oxford (1996, Berrow scholarship). Benoît Merkt was a research assistant in international economic law at the University of Berne (1997) and a lecturer in European and Swiss competition law at the University of Geneva(1998). He joined Lenz & Staehelin in 1999 and has been a partner since 2006. He speaks French, English and German.
Lenz & Staehelin is one of the largest Swiss law firms with over 200 lawyers and with offices in Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne. Lenz & Staehelin’s scope of activities covers all areas of business law for Swiss and international
Peers and clients say: “Mr Merkt has impressive technical expertise combined with prac tical application and understanding of the commercial context”
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clients.Route de Chêne 30 Geneva 6, CH-1211 Tel: +41 58 450 70 benoit.merkt@lenzstaehelin.com00www.lenzstaehelin.com
”He is a very pragmatic practitioner”
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Antonio is the former vice secretary general of the Spanish Association for the Study of European Law (2008–2019) and a board member of the Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition. He is a professor on the compe tition and European law master’s degree at the University of Carlos III; and on the pharmaceutical industry programme at the IE Business School.
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Antonio Martínez Allen & Overy LLP
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the Madrid,Serranomarket.7328006
Antonio Martínez is the head of the competition and European law department of Allen & Overy Spain. He has over 25 years’ experience advising on all aspects of competition law, with particular focus on infringement and merger control proceedings before the European Commission and the Spanish Competition Authority. He also has significant expe rience in competition law compliance.
Dr Benoît Merkt is a leading expert in competi tion law and is renowned for his first-rate practice. He specialises in all areas of Swiss and European merger control work and competition law, notably in the banking and finance, energy, high-tech, infra structures (electricity), consumer goods, chemical, luxury goods, motor-car distribution, publicbroad casting and retail sectors. He has been respon sible for a large number of merger notifications to the Swiss Competition Commission and coor dinated multi-jurisdictional merger filings. Benoît Merkt advises in contentious and non-contentious matters and has acted in high-profile cases on alleged abuses of dominant positions, vertical restraints, cartels and public procurement.
Antonio has authored numerous legal publi cations and is co-author of the Comentario a la Ley15/2007, de 3 de julio, de Defensa de la Competencia, a competition law reference book to which he contrib uted the chapter on infringement proceedings.
Companies Antonio has advised over the past year include AGEDI/AIE, Altadis (Imperial Brands Group), AMP, Talgo, Azucarera (ABF), Beam Suntory, Berkshire Hathaway, Boehringer Ingelheim, CEPSA, EQT, ICG, Evonik, Gamesa, Globalvia, Hanson Hispania, Hispasat, Huntsman, Iberdrola, Lubrizol, Macquarie, Mallinckrodt, OPTrust, Randstad, RTVE, Saria, SEUR and Yildirim Group.
Peers and clients say: “Antonio Martinez is very knowledgeable and experienced in Competition law”
“He consistently delivers clear and practical advice”
Benoît Merkt is a member of the Swiss Association of Competition Law (ASAS), the International League of Competition Law (LIDC), the Swiss Bar Association, the competition committee of SAV/FSA, the International Bar Association (IBA), the International Union of Lawyers (UIA), and was secretary of the Swiss section (from 1997to 2002) of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht Schweiz.
Antonio is widely recognised as a leading competi tion practitioner. Chambers Europe calls him “a magnif icent lawyer with great client service” who is able to “explain complex cases and the different options we have in terms of their advantages or disadvantages”.
Tel: +34 91 782 99 antonio.martinez@allenovery.com52www.allenovery.com
Renato Bucher MLL Legal
Frank Bremer is a counsel in Schellenberg Wittmer’s competition and antitrust law team in Zurich. With over 13 years’ experience in Swiss and EU competition law, Frank has represented clients in complex antitrust investigations and merger notifications in a variety of areas such as construc tion tendering, sports broadcasting rights, food markets, as well as postal and payment services.
Renato Bucher regularly publishes in his fields of expertise and organizes and speaks at confer ences in Switzerland and abroad. He is an active member of various professional organizations, including the Swiss and Zurich Bar Association, the International Association of Young Lawyers AIJA, the German Association for Distribution Law, the Antitrust Practice Group of the Zurich Bar Association and the German Association for Antitrust Law (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.). Swiss Distribution (the former Swiss Franchise Association) lists Renato as a distribution law
Peers and clients say: “Renato has a wealth of antitrust experience, from proceedings before the competition authorities to private litigation”
Renato Bucher worked as seconded legal counsel with an internationally leading listed FMCG company and was seconded to a leading Irish law firm, while also being a Sutherland Fellow at the University College Dublin (UCD), Sutherland School of Law. As a long-time army officer and former examining magistrate in the Swiss military justice, Renato conducted several dozens of criminal inves tigations against members of the Swiss Armed Forces, some of which also included dawn raids.
Frank has high-profile competition law exper tise across numerous Swiss competition investi gations, as well as appeals to the higher courts of Switzerland. His fields of expertise include anti trust, merger control, leniency programmes, dawn raids, administrative law, compliance and internal investigations, distribution, procurement, energy, telecoms and postal regulation.
Bucher speaks fluently English and German and has a good command of SchiffbaustrasseFrench. 2 PO Box Zurich, 8031 Tel: +41 58 552 07 renato.bucher@mll-legal.com42www.mll-legal.com
“He combines great knowledge with his vast experience in commercial and distribution law”
Renato Bucher joined MLL Legal in 2015 and was appointed to the partnership in 2022. He graduated from University of Fribourg, Switzerland (Bachelor of Law, magna cum laude), University of Zurich, Switzerland (Master of Law, magna cum laude) and Maastricht University, the Netherlands (LL.M. in Corporate and Commercial Law, with distinction) and passed the Swiss bar exam (Lucerne) in 2015 with the highest distinc tion. Renato obtained a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Forensics from the University of Lucerne, Switzerland (Prosecutor’s Academy).
Frank Bremer Schellenberg Wittmer
Renato Bucher further possesses specialist knowledge and experience in all areas of commer cial law. His focus is on distribution related matters (franchising, agency, selective distribution etc.), but he also frequently advises on supply, manu facturing, licensing, R&D and other commercial agreements. He often represents undertakings in contentious matters, for example, regarding good will indemnity claims, extraordinary terminations of cross-border distribution relationships, etc.
Frank Bremer’s PhD on sanctions against natural persons in Swiss competition law was awarded the prestigious Walter Hug-Price for outstanding PhD dissertations. Frank has been a lecturer at the University of St Gallen since 2009 and is recognised repeatedly as a “future leader” in competition law by various leading legal publications.
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Within his practice areas, Renato regularly represents undertakings before all Swiss courts and authorities, both in civil and administrative proceedings. Among others, he acted as counsel to undertakings in several high-profile leading cases, resulting in landmark rulings, before the Swiss Supreme Court. Renato also frequently appears before the Swiss Commercial Courts and the Swiss Federal Administrative Court.
Löwenstrasse 19 Zurich, 8021 Tel: +41 44 215 frank.bremer@swlegal.ch5252www.swlegal.ch
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Renato Bucher is a Competition and Commercial Partner with MLL Legal. He heads the firm’s Competition practice group in Zurich.
“He is a brilliant and very diligent lawyer”
Peers and clients say: “He is a very talented lawyer with an impressive knowledge of Swiss, German and European competition “Alaw”high-calibre competition lawyer, with particular strength in investigations”
Frank Bremer is inter alia a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV (Antitrust Law Association), the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), the Swiss Bar Association (SAV), the Munich Bar Association and the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA).
Renato advises on business strategies from all angles of competition law, represents under takings in proceedings before the Swiss compe tition authorities and private antitrust litigation, coordinates multi-jurisdictional merger filings, conducts trainings and advises on the implemen tation of antitrust compliance programs. He is also experienced in public procurement related matters and unfair competition laws, in particular regarding the rules on price indications.
Examples of Frank’s expertise are: Advising Credit Suisse in an investigation by the Swiss Competition Commission; representing the inter national provider and reseller of network and data security products dacoso GmbH in an investigation by the Swiss Competition Commission involving a dawn raid and a successful leniency application; providing legal advice to the utilities companies ewl and EGZ in a competition investigation concerning access to the gas infrastructure and landmark regulatory issues of energy market liberalisation.
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Andreas Burger is a counsel in Homburger’s competition and regulatory teams. His practice focuses on Swiss and EU competition law and regu lated markets, administrative law, and contract law.
He also advises on compliance matters and internal investigations. With regard to regulated markets, he specialises in energy, healthcare and pharma, media and telecommunication, infrastruc ture and transport as well as in public procurement.
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Tel: +41 43 222 15 andreas.burger@homburger.ch76www.homburger.ch
Peers and clients say: “Marcel is an excel lent competition lawyer”
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Andreas Burger Homburger
Marcel Dietrich is the head of Homburger’s compe tition and regulatory teams. His practice focuses on Swiss and European competition and antitrust law, as well as on commercial public and administrative law and regulated markets. He has extensive and long-standing experience in all areas of competi tion law ranging from merger control to adminis trative and civil antitrust litigation.
“He is highly recommended for competition matters”
Born in 1975, Gion Giger was educated at the University of Berne (lic. iur. 1999), the University of Zurich (Dr. iur. 2003) and the King’s College London (LL.M. in Competition Law 2009). He has working experience as a research assistant at the Universities of Berne and Zurich, as a trainee with Walder Wyss and as a law clerk at the District Court of Horgen.GionGiger speaks German, English, French, Italian and Romansh. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.Witharound 250 legal experts, Walder Wyss is one of the most successful and fastest growing Swiss commercial law firms, with offices in Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Berne, Lausanne and Lugano. The firm specialises in corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, intellectual property and competition law, dispute resolution and tax law.Cli ents include national and international companies, publicly held corporations and family businesses as well as public law institutions and private gion.giger@walderwyss.comTel:Seefeldstrasseclients.123POBoxZurich,8034+41586585858www.walderwyss.com
Andreas Burger has studied in Zurich and Paris, and graduated in law (lic iur) from the University of Zurich in 2002. In 2008, he also grad uated as a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Edinburgh. After working at a district court in Switzerland in civil and criminal matters from 2002 to 2006, he joined Homburger as an associate in 2006. In 2016, Andreas Burger was appointed as a counsel.
He has extensive experience in advising clients in administrative proceedings before authori ties and courts, in particular in antitrust, public procurement, energy and public health matters. His work in competition law matters includes representing clients in investigations and merger control proceedings. Further, he regularly advises clients on distribution arrangements, on compli ance matters, and conducts internal audits.
Peers and clients say: “Andreas is a competition lawyer with a razor-sharp mind”
Marcel Dietrich Homburger
Prime HardstrasseTower201Zurich,8005
Tel: +41 43 222 10 marcel.dietrich@homburger.ch00www.homburger.ch
“A highly recommended lawyer”
“Gion Giger is a brilliant lawyer who knows all the cases - he is especially very good in merger control”
Gion Giger is counsel in the Antitrust and Competition Team. His preferred areas of practice include competition law, distribution law, contract and commercial law. In particular, he advises on legal issues at the interface of sector-specific regu lation and competition law. Gion Giger represents undertakings before competition authorities and courts, and assists them in complex merger filings.
“Mr Burger is a highly skilled practitioner”
Prime HardstrasseTower201Zurich,8005
He is a member of various national and international competition law associations. He is the chairman of the Zurich Bar Association’s committee on competition law. He regularly publishes and lectures on various subjects of competition law, commercial public and admin istrative law.
Peers and clients say: “He is an excellent professional with in-depth knowledge of Swiss and EU competition law”
Reto Jacobs heads the antitrust and competition team of Walder Wyss Ltd, one of Switzerland’s leading law firms.
Reto Jacobs Walder Wyss Ltd
Franz Hoffet is chairman of the Swiss Bar Association’s committee on competition law. He has published several articles on antitrust matters and is a co-editor and co-author of one of the leading treatises on Swiss competition
19 Zurich, 8021 Tel: +41 44 215
Peers and clients say: “He is a high-profile Swiss competition lawyer and a go-to point of “Clientscontact”appreciate his vast knowledge and understanding of tactical and pragmatic “Anconsiderations”outstanding antitrust lawyer with exten sive experience in major merger control cases and sanctions proceedings”
Jacobs speaks German, English and French. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practise in all Switzerland.
Franz Hoffet is a partner of Homburger’s competi tion and regulatory teams. He has extensive experi ence in all areas of Swiss and European competition law, ranging from merger control to administrative and civil antitrust litigation.
“He provides stable and reliable regulatory advice”
Peers and clients say: “Franz is highly professional and client focused’
david.mamane@swlegal.ch5252www.swlegal.ch
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David’s expertise includes: advising and coordinating the international merger control procedure for Panalpina Welttransport in more than 12 jurisdictions, representing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in the Swiss review of the merger with PSA Group, advising Credit Suisse in several Swiss Competition Commission (ComCo) investigations, and representing Energie Wasser Luzern and Erdgas Zentralschweiz in ComCo investigation concerning access to gas infrastructure. He also regularly advises Swiss and international companies (eg, Husqvarna, Bucher Landtechnik) in investigations by the ComCo regarding distribution systems.
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Peers and clients say: “David is an excel lent competition lawyer”
David lectures on competition law at the University of Lucerne and has authored several publications on Swiss and European competition law. He is a member of the Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations, the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV, and the International Bar Association’s compe tition committee merger working group. He is the former president of the International Association of Young Lawyers’ antitrust commission and is a co-founder of the European Competition Lawyers Association. David is a member of the Expert Committee on Competition Law of the Swiss Bar Association and a member of the board of the Swiss Association for Compliance & Competition Law.
Tel: +41 58 658 58 reto.jacobs@walderwyss.com58www.walderwyss.com
David Mamane Schellenberg Wittmer
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“He is definitely a go-to person”
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David Mamane is a partner and head of Schellenberg Wittmer’s Competition Group, and its Administrative Law and Public Procurement Group. He focuses on competition law, national and international merger control, telecommuni cations, postal, transport and energy regulation, public procurement, and distribution agreements.
David studied law at the University of Basel (lic iur, 1997) and the College of Europe in Bruges (LLM, Master of European Law, 2003). Between 2000 and 2008, he was an associate of leading international and Swiss law firms in Brussels and Zurich, and a teaching assistant at the College of LöwenstrasseEurope.
“He provides creative, actionable advice”
He represents a wide range of companies and trade associations in proceedings before the Swiss competition authorities, the European Commission and in civil courts and arbitration proceedings. He also advises clients on compliance matters of Swiss and European competition law. Other areas of prac tice include regulated markets (in particular, health and pharma, telecommunications and media, energy, infrastructure and transport), international trade and public procurement. Franz Hoffet is also a member of Homburger’s corporate/M&A team as well as its white-collar/investigations team.
“Mr Hoffet has good relationships with and understanding of Swiss regulators/compe tition authorities”
With around 250 legal experts, Walder Wyss is one of the largest Swiss law firms, with offices in Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Berne, Lausanne and Lugano. It offers a full range of services for the business community in Switzerland, as well as public, private and international clients. Its practice teams handle business transactions, banking and finance matters, taxes, arbitration and litigation as well as IP/IT and competition
Franz Hoffet Homburger
He advises domestic and foreign companies with respect to all competition law issues, repre sents them before competition authorities and courts, and assists them in complex merger filings. Reto Jacobs also advises with respect to distribu tion systems and supports various companies with respect to their antitrust compliance programmes. He is a lecturer at the University of St Gallen.
Tel: +41 43 222 10 franz.hoffet@homburger.ch00www.homburger.ch
Born in 1964, Reto Jacobs was educated at the University of St Gallen (lic iur, JD equivalent, 1990; Dr iur, 1997). He obtained an additional degree in European competition law from the University of Amsterdam (LLM 1993) and stayed as visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of several professional organisations, such as the Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations, the IBA and the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht. He has published numerous articles on antitrust and competition law. All of his publica tions are available on www.walderwyss.com/reto.
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Mario is a founding partner of CORE Attorneys. He has extensive experience in his area of expertise that focuses on all aspects of competition law, regu latory matters and distribution law. Other areas of expertise include e-commerce and digital economy matters, general contract law including commer cial disputes, unfair competition law, compliance, internal investigations and public procurement.
Lenz & Staehelin is one of the largest Swiss law firms with over 200 lawyers and with offices in Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne. Lenz & Staehelin’s scope of activities covers all areas of business law for Swiss and international clients.Brandschenkestrasse 24 Zurich, CH-8027
Peers and clients say: “He is one of the leading competition lawyers in the market with a long-standing practice” “Mani is extremely knowledgeable”
Mani Reinert’s practice covers all aspects of antitrust law in a wide range of industries. He routinely represents clients in merger control filings before the Swiss Competition Commission and coordinates multijurisdictional merger control filings. Furthermore, Mani Reinert advises and represents clients in administrative proceedings before the Swiss Competition Commission. In addition, he assists clients in dawn raids as well as in the implementation of compliance programs and advises clients regarding the administration of distribution networks.
Peers and clients say: “Marcel is one of the best in Switzerland for competition matters” “He is very client focused in his approach”
Dr Marcel Meinhardt is a leading expert in compe tition law and is renowned for his broad, first-rate practice. He specialises in all areas of Swiss and European merger control work and competition law, particularly in the postal services, insurance, banking, motor-car, energy, media, retail, construc tion, pharma, ticketing and IT. Marcel Meinhardt also advises on regulatory issues in connection with the electricity and gas industry. He has been respon sible for a large number of merger notifications to the Swiss Competition Commission and coor dinated multi-jurisdictional merger filings. Marcel Meinhardt advises in contentious and non-conten tious matters and has acted in high-profile cases on alleged abuses of dominant positions, vertical restraints and cartels. He heads the competition and regulated market practice group of Lenz & Staehelin.
He regularly speaks and publishes on compe tition law topics and is the co-editor of one of the leading commentaries on the Swiss competition law.
Mani Reinert Bär & Karrer Ltd
Peers and clients say: “Mario has impres sive dedication to the cases”
“Mr Strebel has the ability to present creative arguments to the competition commission”
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“He is very highly recommended”
Tel: +41 58 450 80 marcel.meinhardt@lenzstaehelin.com00www.lenzstaehelin.com
Mani Reinert heads the practice group Competition Law/Antitrust at Bär & Karrer. He is based in Zurich and partner since 2007.
Mario Strebel CORE Attorneys
He regularly publishes articles and gives pres entations on these topics, including compliance seminars and dawn-raid workshops. Other areas of his practice include telecom regulation, public procurement and internal investigations.
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Marcel Meinhardt Lenz & Staehelin
Marcel Meinhardt holds a law degree from the University of St Gallen (1990), an LLM from the New York University School of Law (1994) and an LLM from the College of Europe (1995). He completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich (1996). Admitted to the Zurich Bar (1992), he joined Lenz & Staehelin in 1996, and has been a partner since 2002. He speaks German, English and French.
Marcel Meinhardt is a board member of the Swiss Association of Competition Law (Swiss member of the International League of Competition Law). He is also a regular speaker at Swiss and international competition law conferences.
Marcel Meinhardt is a member of the Swiss Association of Competition Law (ASAS), the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), the Swiss Bar Association (SAV), the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV (Antitrust Law Association), the International Bar Association (IBA) and the American Bar Association (ABA).
Brandschenkestrasse 90 Zurich, 8002
Mario represents national and international clients from start-up to multinational companies in all these areas of law.
Mario obtained a master’s in law from the University of Zurich in 2003 and a postgraduate degree from Kings College London in 2012 (LLM in competition law). He was admitted to the Bar in Switzerland in 2008 and is a member of the Swiss and Zurich Bar Association, the competi tion law group of the Zurich Bar Association as well as the chairman of the Swiss working group of the Study Association for Competition Law (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV). Mario is a listed expert with the Swiss Distribution Association (formerly Swiss Franchise Association) and a neutral arbitrator with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre. His professional career began as a part-time associate of a globally active construc tion material company from 2001 to 2003 and a scientific collaborator with the secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission from 2004 to mario.strebel@core-attorneys.comTel:Dufourstrasse2005.105Zurich,CH-8008+41435557007www.core-attorneys.com
Monique Sturny was educated at the University of Fribourg (lic iur, 2002, with special mentions in European Law and bilingual German-French), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LLM in international business law, 2007) and the University of Berne (Dr iur, summa cum laude, 2013). In 2020, the Swiss Competition Commission appointed her as Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the International Competition Network (ICN) for the coming three years. Monique is a co-founder and board member of W@CompetitionCH, a network connecting female competition law professionals in Switzerland. She co-chairs the Schulthess Juristische Medien Ltd.’s conference on competition law and is a co-editor of the Swiss Journal for Competition Law.
“She provides clear, simple and exhaustive advice to address and solve complex matters”
Monique Sturny is a partner at Walder Wyss Ltd., one of Switzerland’s leading law firms. She advises compa nies on all aspects of competition law, distribution law and contract law matters. She assists clients in merger control proceedings and represents them in proceed ings before competition authorities and courts. She counsels clients on a wide variety of issues, including distribution systems, compliance programmes and complex cooperation agreements. She regularly speaks and publishes in her fields of expertise.
“She is a highly skilled professional, in particular for competition law matters in distribution contracts”
Peers and clients say: “Monique understands clients’ needs and thinks outside the box”
Richard is Non-Governmental Advisor to the Swiss Competition Commission for the International Competition Network (ICN) and co-editor of the Swiss Journal of Competition Law (Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht).
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Richard Stäuber is a partner in Homburger’s competition and regulatory teams. His practice focuses on Swiss and European competition law, regulatory affairs and intellectual property.
Richard studied law at the University of St Gallen (lic iur, JD equivalent, 2005; Dr iur, 2011) and at Harvard Law School (LLM, 2010). He also obtained a degree in economics from King’s College London (MA, 2017). Richard joined Homburger in 2011 as an associate and was promoted to partner in 2020. Between 2012 and 2013 he worked in the Brussels office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & HardstrassePrimeHamilton.Tower201Zurich,8005
Astrid Waser obtained a law degree from the University of Lausanne (1996) and an LLM from the College of Europe (1997). Admitted to the Bar (1999), she completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich (2002). She has worked at the European Institute in Zurich, at the European Commission (DG Competition) and in a leading Brussels law firm. She joined Lenz & Staehelin in 2002 and has been a partner since 2012. She speaks German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
Peers and clients say: “Richard is one of the best competition lawyers in Switzerland” “He is a key name in the field”
Lenz & Staehelin is one of the largest Swiss law firms with over 200 lawyers and with offices in Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne. Lenz & Staehelin’s scope of activities covers all areas of business law for Swiss and internationalBrandschenkestrasseclients. 24 Zurich, CH-8027 Tel: +41 58 450 80 astrid.waser@lenzstaehelin.com00www.lenzstaehelin.com
With around 250 legal experts, Walder Wyss is one of the most successful and fastest growing Swiss commercial law firms, with offices in Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Berne, Lausanne and Lugano. We specialise in corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, intellectual property and competition law, dispute resolution and tax law. Our clients include national and international companies, publicly held corporations and family businesses as well as public law institutions and private monique.sturny@walderwyss.comTel:Seefeldstrasseclients.123POBoxZurich,8034+41586585858www.walderwyss.com
Peers and clients say: “She is well known for her deep competition expertise”
Astrid Waser is a member of the Swiss Bar Association (SAV), the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV, the Swiss Association for Competition Law (ASAS is a member of the International League of Competition Law, LIDC) and Women Lawyers Switzerland. She is a board member of Working Moms Switzerland.
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“Astrid has a fantastic reputation in the market “
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Tel: +41 43 222 10 richard.staeuber@homburger.ch00www.homburger.ch
Dr Astrid Waser is a partner in the Competition, Regulated Market and Investigation group in Zurich. She specializes in all aspects of competition (antitrust) law, public procurement law, media and telecoms law and compliance. Astrid Waser also advices on regulatory, administrative and internal investigations, including sexual harassment inves tigations, and has a long-standing experience in the field of compliance matters. She advises in non-contentious matters and represents clients before Swiss authorities and courts, in particular in investigations and infringement procedures of the Swiss Competition Commission as well as in merger filings and in public procurement proce dures. Astrid Waser is a regular speaker at confer ences and seminars.
Richard has extensive experience in all areas of competition law, including cartel and abuse of dominance proceedings; national and international merger control procedures; dawn raids; and leni ency proceedings. Additionally, Richard specialises in regulated markets, in particular the healthcare and pharmaceutical, and media and telecommu nications sectors. Richard also regularly advises clients with regard to distribution and cooperation arrangements, including IP licensing agreements.
An active member in Swiss and international professional associations, he publishes and lectures in his areas of specialisation. Richard is fluent in German and English; he also speaks French, Italian and Dutch.
Monique Sturny Walder Wyss Ltd
Monique Sturny speaks German, English and French. She is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and is admitted to practise in all of Switzerland.
Peers and clients say: “Yvonne is a top expert when it comes to Taiwanese competition law”
“Daniel is experienced in all aspects of anti trust law”
Yvonne Hsieh is a partner at Lee and Li and co-heads the firm’s antitrust practice group. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, competition law, securities investments, and tele communications and broadcasting.
Yvonne completed a Fair Trade Act programme conducted by the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission in 2001 and has since focused her practice on antitrust laws, covering merger control, unfair competition, abuse of dominance, and cartel inves tigations. She keeps clients updated on the devel opment of competition laws in Taiwan through the firm’s bulletin and is the co-author of numerous papers in various competition law publications, such as The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Merger Control and European Lawyer Reference – Merger Control Yvonne’s specialty in competi tion law has been recognised as being among the world’s leading competition lawyers by Who’s Who Legal – the international who’s who of business lawyers since 2013.
Tel: +41 58 658 55 daniel.zimmerli@walderwyss.com33www.walderwyss.com
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Daniel Zimmerli Walder Wyss Ltd
“He is a very smart and experienced compe tition lawyer”
Yvonne received her LLB from National Taipei University and her LLM from Case Western Reserve University. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 1999.
Daniel Zimmerli is counsel in the information tech nology, intellectual property and competition team. His preferred areas of practice cover antitrust law, administrative law, economic constitutional law and administrative procedure. He has an in-depth knowledge of the infrastructure (telecommunica tions, energy, public transport, postal services) and the healthcare sector. He advises and represents clients both in courts and before administrative bodies.Daniel Zimmerli was educated at the University of Berne (lic iur 1998; Dr iur 2006) and at the University of Michigan Law School (Ann Arbor, USA; LLM 2007). He gained working experience as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Berne; a scientific collaborator at the Swiss Competition Commission; an attorney at a Bernese law firm; and an attorney at the legal department of SwissDanielPost.Zimmerli speaks German, French and English. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practise in all Switzerland.
Seefeldstrasse 123 PO Box Zurich, 8034
“Her advice is clear and robust”
Yvonne Hsieh Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law
Yvonne has extensive experience in advising local and foreign companies on merger control issues in Taiwan and has successfully obtained clearance for complex transactions in various sectors, including chemicals, telecommunica tions, banking, electronics, pharmaceuticals and semiconductor technology. She also has exten sive experience in assisting foreign companies on the TFTC’s investigation related to cartel, unfair practice and abuse of market power. In addition to competition law, Yvonne is also a core member of the firm’s M&A practice group and handles all types of mergers and acquisitions. In particular, she specialises in the acquisition and privatisa tion of Taiwan-listed companies and has handled a few milestone acquisitions, including ASML’s acquisition of Hermes Microvision, Inc and KKR’s acquisition of LCY. She also assisted private equity funds in acquiring and disposing of entities that are highly regulated.
“She manages cases quickly and efficiently”
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Peers and clients say: “He is creative, responsive and sympathetic”
With around 250 legal experts, Walder Wyss is one of the most successful and fastest growing Swiss commercial law firms, with offices in Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Berne, Lausanne and Lugano. The firm specialises in corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, intellectual property and competition law, dispute resolution and tax law. Clients include national and international companies, publicly held corporations and family businesses as well as public law institutions and private clients.
Stephen Wu Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law
”He is very proactive and to the point”
”Bahadir went above and beyond to help with our legal issues”
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Bahadir Balki is the managing partner of ACTECON and the head of competition practice. He holds an LLM degree in European economic law from Europa-Institut at Saarland University, and is admitted to the Istanbul Bar Association.
Bahadir is known for his excellent work disci pline and his compelling and effective defences. He has been involved in virtually every significant cartel and abuse of dominance investigation launched by the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA). Of late, Bahadir Balki has successfully represented clients in various full-fledged TCA investigations in matters related to no-pouching, e-commerce, online platforms – digital advertising, automotive, soft-drinks, consumer electronics, eyewear and lenses, FMCG, chemicals, fertilizers, transpor tation, media auditing, iron and steel, corporate banking – syndication loans, cement, port services, poultry, and reinsurance/coinsurance.
Stephen also has extensive experience in handling domestic and cross-border M&A trans actions. In addition, he is active in public policy reforms in various areas, such as M&A and corpo rate regulation, knowledge-based economy, corpo rate governance, telecom and media convergence, venture capital, limited partnerships, industrial holding companies and investor
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Beyond successfully leading leniency applica tions, he contributed to the creation of the first prec edent in the Turkish competition law practice in which a leniency applicant may obtain immunity even if the nature of the violation is not considered a hard-core cartel by the TCA. He further led the team during the investigation against the Circle of Five, as a result of which the TCA concluded that there is no jurisdictional effect in Turkey and thus it did not impose any admin istrative fine on the basis of the effects doctrine. He also led one of the first commitment offerings to the TCA that successfully terminated an abuse of domi nance investigation into Turkey’s leading online flower marketplace. Additionally, he successfully assisted to the soft-drinks giant in the abuse of dominance case, which was closed with the commitments.
”He is an exceptional expert in competition law, who knows how to deal with delicate situa tions, and how to deal efficiently with authorities”
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“He has a vast and intricate knowledge of anti-trust law”
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Peers and clients say: “Stephen is diligent and responsive”
He is recognized and called upon for his exper tise by many antitrust institutions. He was invited to the ICN’s annual meeting as a “resource person” to speak on remedies, commitments and cooperation. He is a lecturer in the corporate ethics and compli ance management programme organized by the Ethics and Reputation Society of Turkey. He is the co-author of “Merger Control in the EU and TurkeyA Comparative Guide”, published by WoltersKluwer. This book, which draws on Bahadir’s wide-ranging experience in multi national transactions, presents for the first time a description and analysis of the relationship between the EU and Turkish merger control law and practice.Bahadir has been selected by Global Competition Review and WWL as one of the world’s highest ranked competition lawyers
Peers and clients say: “He has a great reputation in high-profile cases”
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Clients have also benefited from Bahadir’s extensive experience in global merger trans actions. These transactions have occurred in a variety of industries, including aviation, e-mobility, rail industry, digital music distribution, non-me tallic and composite materials, chemicals, accom modation services, pharma, payment services, insurance, eyewear and lenses, electrical car/lith ium-ion batteries, titanium dioxide, crop protection, iron and steel, FMCG, hygiene products, machinery, and port services/ro-ro transportation.
Bahadir Balki ACTECON
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Stephen joined Lee and Li in 2000 and became a partner in 2008. Having completed a Fair Trade Act program conducted by the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission in 2001, Stephen specialises in competition law and has been recognised as being among the world’s leading competition lawyers by Who’s Who Legal and also identified as a “marketleading lawyer” in Asialaw Leading Lawyers for competitionStephenand antitrust.isthefounding chairman of the competition law committee of the Taipei Bar Association, a director of Taiwan Competition Law Institute, and a member of the fair trade and consumer relation committee of the Chinese National Federation of Industries. He is also recommended as a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN). With the support of a team with extensive knowl edge and experience, he has successfully handled numerous antitrust filings, cartel investigation and unfair competition cases on behalf of domestic and international clients. He keeps abreast of the latest developments in global antitrust/competition laws and regularly contributes briefings and articles to many competition law publications.
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”He provides real expertise and clear guidance, as well as extensive and in-depth legal knowledge”
Before founding ELIG Gürkaynak in 2005, Gönenç worked as an attorney at the Istanbul, New York and Brussels offices of a global law firm for over eightGönenç’syears. main areas of practice include competition; anti-corruption and white-collar irregularities; internet law; freedom of expression and fundamental rights and freedoms, compliance; contracts; administrative law; and commercial litigation.Gönenç’s competition law experience goes back more than 25 years, starting from the estab lishment of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA). He has represented defendants and complainants in complex antitrust investigations concerning all forms of abuse of dominant position allegations, and restrictive horizontal and vertical arrange ments. These include price-fixing, retail price maintenance, refusal to supply, territorial restric tions and concerted practice allegations. Every year Gönenç represents multinational companies and large domestic clients in more than 35 written and oral defences in TCA investigations; about 15 anti trust appeal cases in the High Administrative Court; and over 85 TCA merger clearances, in addition to coordinating worldwide merger notifications, drafting non-compete agreements and clauses, and preparing hundreds of legal memoranda concerning various of Turkish and EC competition law topics.
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Peers and clients say: “Gönenç has an unmatched knowledge and experience in compe tition matters in Turkey”
”I have exceptional comfort relying on his judgement in complex competition law issues”
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Gönenç also has considerable expertise in administrative law, and represent clients before the High State Court, both on the merits of a case and for injunctive relief. He also advises on a wide range of antitrust-related business transactions including distributorship, licensing, franchising and toll manufacturing
Daniel’s publications on antitrust include GCR’s “United States – E-Commerce and Big Data: Merger Control.”
Tel: +90 212 327 17 gonenc.gurkaynak@elig.com24www.elig.com
Peers and clients say: “Daniel is a sharp and dedicated practitioner”
ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law
560 Mission Street San Francisco, 94105 Tel: +1 415 490 dbitton@axinn.com1486www.axinn.com
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Gönenç Gürkaynak is the founding partner, and head of the competition law and regulatory depart ment, of ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law. Gönenç graduated from Ankara University in 1997 and was called to the Istanbul Bar in 1998. He has an LLM from Harvard Law School, and is qualified to prac tise in Istanbul, New York, Brussels, and England and Wales (currently a non-practising solicitor).
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Trained in the EU and the US, Daniel Bitton navigates clients through antitrust litigation, government investigations and merger clear ance processes across the globe. He is regular antitrust counsel to various corporate clients, ranging from major Fortune 500 companies, such as Google, McKesson and Stanley Black & Decker, to private equity funds and startups or early-growth companies.Daniel’s recent matters include representing Google in litigation and investigations of its adver tising business in the US and other jurisdictions; McKesson subsidiary RelayHealth in antitrust class actions and a related FTC investigation and litigation regarding Surescripts; Stanley Black & Decker in its acquisition of MTD Products and Excel Industries; Danfoss Group in cartel litigation; Johnson Controls in its US$2 billion sale of Scott Safety to 3M; McKesson in various M&A transac tions, including its US$3.4 billion technology joint venture with Change Healthcare and its US$1.4 billion acquisition of CoverMyMeds; Dell in its US$67 billion acquisition of EMC; Thermo Fisher Scientific in its US$13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies; and Google in its US$2.35 billion sale of Motorola Home to ARRIS, and its US$700 million acquisition of ITA Software.
”His passion and expertise in antitrust are apparent to all who have the privilege to work with him”
Currently, he is lead counsel for Independence Blue Cross in the largest class action antitrust case pending in the United States and Shintech Incorporated in two substantial consolidated class action antitrust lawsuits, having success fully established the court’s lack of jurisdiction over Shintech’s shareholder, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. He has also been engaged as an antitrust expert witness in proceedings in Australia, Canada, California, Switzerland, the UK, New York, Texas and elsewhere. He founded the Brussels office of his prior law firm in 2001, growing it to more than 50 lawyers before his departure, and established the DC office of his current firm in January 2009, now some forty lawyers. He was an adjunct professor at The George Washington Law School for nine years until 2019, teaching a course in International Competition Law and he has written more than fifty published articles on competition law and policy.
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John F. Cove, Jr is a partner in the Litigation and Antitrust practices.
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John F Cove Jr Shearman & Sterling LLP
The scope and significance of Rachel’s work is the best illustration of the trust that major corpo rations place in her skill and judgment. As lead counsel for Tyson Foods in their Broilers, Growers, Pork, and Turkey matters, Rachel’s team has navi gated hundreds of individual cases in both federal and state courts, while skillfully managing concur rent regulatory investigations. Rachel currently also leads the defense of Alvogen in the sprawling Generic Drugs MDL, the defense of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies in a treble-damages class action case alleging a group boycott, and the defense of RelayHealth (a wholly owned subsidiary of McKesson) in class action litigation following an FTC investigation.
Tel: +1 202 721 radcox@axinn.com5406www.axinn.com
Peers and clients say: “She is an outstanding ”Rachellitigator”is the best of the best”
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Whether successfully leading clients through complex multidistrict litigation cases or negotiating criminal fine reductions in the hundreds of millions of dollars, Rachel Adcox is a standout amongst antitrust practitioners. In the last two years alone, Rachel was named a GCR “Women in Antitrust,” shortlisted for GCR’s “Lawyer of the Year” and “Litigator of the Year,” and named a National Law Journal “Litigation Trailblazer”.
John Briggs, a former chair of the ABA’s Section of Antitrust Law, is one of the most accomplished competition lawyers of his generation. He has been antitrust and litigation counsel of choice for dozens of major companies in the US, Asia and Europe. He has handled substantial competition litigation matters as lead trial and appellate counsel for more than 50 Global 500 companies. In mergers, he has considerable trial and regulatory experience, having represented one or both merging parties in fully litigated successful merger cases against both the FTC and the DOJ, including on behalf of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Johnindustries.alsorepresents clients in federal grand jury investigations of alleged cartel activity and other criminal offenses, premerger reviews before federal and state antitrust authorities, and investigations and proceedings by competi tion authorities outside the US. In addition to his antitrust work, he maintains an active securities and general commercial litigation practice, and has defended corporations and individuals in class and non-class actions alleging securities fraud and related offenses in federal and state courts, and in proceedings with the SEC.
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Before entering private practice, John was a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, where he prosecuted crim inal price fixing and bid rigging cases, conducted premerger reviews, litigated challenges to anticom petitive mergers, and served as a senior member of the trial team in United States v. Microsoft. He also served as a Special Assistant US Attorney for the Northern District of California.
Peers and clients say: “John is valued as an honest broker in litigation”
Tel: +1 202 721 jbriggs@axinn.com5400www.axinn.com
He represents clients in antitrust matters, including price fixing, boycott and monopolization cases, direct and indirect purchaser class actions, and unfair competition actions in federal and state courts across the nation in a wide variety of indus tries. John has extensive experience in addressing antitrust issues in technology, platform and network
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”He’s incredibly bright and gets into the detail”
Rachel Adcox Axinn
Peers and clients say: “John is a long standing lawyer in the competition space” ”He is a leading lawyer in the market”
Tel: +1 415 616 john.cove@shearman.com1100www.shearman.com
In addition to his government service with the Department of Justice, John spent two years as a clerk for the Hon. Edward D. Re, Chief Judge of the US Court of International Trade.
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He previously served at the Department of Justice as deputy assistant attorney general and chief of staff of the Antitrust Division. David also served as deputy associate attorney general, and as counsel to the US Attorney General and White House Liaison. He was designated a special assis tant US attorney. David recently led transition plan ning for the antitrust division during the change in administrations.Davidalsoserved at the White House under President George W Bush as special assistant to the president and associate director for presidential personnel, advising the president on the appoint ment of senior officials throughout the executive branch.
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Peers and clients say: “Ben has excellent “Hejudgement”identifies critical issues quickly and develops effective strategies to deal with those issues”
Peers and clients say: “A fantastic antitrust ”Michael’sattorney” a go-to for merger matters – one of the best”
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Mike’s recent litigation matters include defending Thales Group in dual patent and ITC litigations; Momenta Pharmaceuticals in a series of antitrust cases involving patent enforcement; Alvogen in a patentinfringement and antitrust litigation regarding Indivior’s opioid dependency treatment drug Suboxone® Film and in the Generic Drugs MDL.
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David focuses on antitrust government and internal investigations, merger review and complex litigation matters. He has represented clients in varied industries including defence, oil and gas, financial services and technology. David works regularly on matters before the Federal Trade Commission and the antitrust division of the US Department of Justice.
Ben Gris is partner in the antitrust practice. Ben specialises in antitrust investigations and litiga tions with a focus on mergers and acquisitions.
David Higbee is a partner in the Antitrust practice, Global Antitrust Practice Group Leader, Head of the Washington, D.C. Office and Americas Regional Managing Partner.
Michael Keeley is a leading antitrust lawyer, with more than 25 years of experience. He has obtained antitrust clearance for large and complex strategic mergers and tried monopolization and patent jury cases. Mike has particular experience in defending litigated merger challenges, including the Antitrust Division’s challenges to SunGard/Comdisco and the sale by Tyson Foods of a poultry processing complex to George’s Foods.
Mike’s recent M&A work includes Take-Two’s US$12.7B acquisition of Zynga; Dell Technologies’ US$4 billion sale of Boomi to TPG and Francisco Partners; Tyler Technologies’ US$2.3 billion acquisition of NIC Inc.; Tyson Foods’ acquisition of American Proteins; Tyson Foods acquisition of Keystone Foods from Marfrig; Tyson Foods’ acqui sition of Smart Chicken; Dell’s US$67 billion acqui sition of EMC; Interactive Data Corporation’s US$5 billion acquisition by Intercontinental Exchange Inc.; Thermo Fisher Scientific’s US$13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies and its US$12.5 billion tender offer of QIAGEN.
Peers and clients say: “David is extremely “Hethorough”provides well-reasoned advice that is of practical value and can be relied on with confidence”
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Prior to joining the FTC, Ben was an associate in the litigation group of a large US based law firm where he represented pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, financial, and consumer goods clients, amongBenothers.isafrequent speaker at ABA, International Competition Network, and other organisational events.
Ben joined the firm in 2018 after serving for nearly 12 years at the Federal Trade Commission, most recently spending three years as assistant director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. During his time at the FTC, Ben served as lead investigator, manager, and/or litigator on hundreds of matters, including frequent collaboration with foreign anti trust agencies on cross-border transactions. Ben was also involved in the development of best prac tices for cross-border merger review and intera gencyAscooperation.assistantdirector, Ben was the head of the FTC’s mergers II division, which oversees investi gation and litigation in a wide range of industries, including chemicals, automotive, semiconductors, computer hardware and software, recorded music, tobacco, fertilizers, and a variety of intermediate products. Prior to becoming assistant director, Ben served as a deputy assistant director of the mergers II division from 2011–2015.
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Ryan Shores is a partner in the Antitrust and Litigation practices of Shearman & Sterling’s Washington, DC office. He represents companies in high-stakes antitrust and other complex litigation at the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts throughout the country.
An expert at the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust law, in 2020, Ian represented 46 of the Nation’s top antitrust scholars in support of the FTC in its Qualcomm appeal. Ian currently represents the Fair Standards Alliance in matters involving standard essential patents.
“He is a consummate professional in his interactions with clients and opposing counsel alike”
Who’s Who Legal highlights Ian’s “superb attention to detail, excellence in written and oral advocacy and subtle judgement on strategy,” noting that peers and clients consider him “a super smart litigator with great instincts.” “Ian is an excellent lawyer: creative, smart and stra tegic.” Chambers USA says clients describe him as “outstanding and incredibly skilled,” commend his “detail-oriented work,” and praise his “ency clopedic knowledge.” The Legal 500 labels him a “star of the antitrust bar” and Global Competition Review lauded him for his Samsung victory against Qualcomm in 2017, shortlisting him for 2015 “Litigator of the Year”. Ian was also named a 2017 Antitrust Trailblazer by the National Law Journal, a leading lawyer by Who’s Who Legal: Litigation in 2017, and a competition expert by Who’s Who Legal: Competition in 2018.
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Ryan has represented companies in numerous industries, including internet retail, financial tech nology, banking, energy, defense and aerospace, in matters involving all types of antitrust claims under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and similar state laws, including price-fixing, market allocation, monopolization and attempted monop olization, tying and exclusive dealing. Ryan also has represented companies in matters involving intellectual property and the relationship between IP rights and competition laws.
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An eight time moderator or panelist at the ABA Antitrust Spring meeting, and author of over 20 peer review articles, Ian is a Member of the Editorial Board of the ABA Antitrust Magazine
An alumnus of the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Ian’s career evinces several “firsts:” he was trial counsel in the first jury trial price fixing case to attack a wholly foreign conspiracy; he argued and won in the Ninth Circuit in what it called “a case of first impression” on the preemption of state antitrust laws; he was counsel in the first antitrust case involving crypto currency; and he was counsel in the first “pay for delay” case involving biosimilars. In 2019, the National Law Journal, in recognizing the DC office as liti gation department of the year, singled out the $3 billion summary judgment victory for Samsung Electronics. Ian’s was named as an MVP by Law360.
Peers and clients say: “Ian is an experienced, thorough, and methodical litigator”
He has argued before seven US Courts of Appeals and the highest courts in New York and South Dakota. Ian has tried seven cases to verdict and deposed over 30 economists. He is co-lead counsel to Google in In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation. Ian recently participated in the first two sided market jury trial; the trial team secured a successful jury verdict against Sabre finding that Sabre illegally maintained its monopoly power. Ian is lead counsel for Samsung Electronics in a case alleging price fixing by DRAM manufacturers; he argued in the Ninth Circuit on behalf of all defend ants, which affirmed the dismissal of the amended complaint. In re Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, 28 F.4th 42 (9th Cir. 2022).
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Ryan recently served as Associate Deputy Attorney General & Senior Advisor for Technology Industries at the US Department of Justice. In that role, Ryan oversaw the Department’s antitrust review of major online platforms, leading to the government’s landmark monopolization case filed against Google in 2020.
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“Not only is he incredibly smart but he’s also incredibly practical”
Ian is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University Law School.
The Co-Chair of O’Melveny’s Antitrust Practice, Ian Simmons has been lead counsel in over 35 anti trust multi-district cases (MDL), achieving prece dent-setting results. With 31 years of experience, Ian is one of a few lawyers listed in the Commercial Litigation Global Leader and Competition Thought Leader Who’s Who Legal directories.
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After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law, where Ryan was Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review, he served as a law clerk to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the US Supreme Court.
Peers and clients say: “Ryan is an outstanding antitrust litigator”
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“He has substantive skills in the field”
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“He brings a wealth of experience - both from his time leading tech investigations at DOJ and his years in private practice”
She has an MA (first-class honours) in juris prudence from the University of Oxford. She is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales and is licensed as a foreign legal consultant in New York.
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Michael H Byowitz is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz specialising in antitrust and compe tition law. He represents multinational corpora tions on major domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate take overs at the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general in the United States. He also consults on antitrust investigations in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela and many other countries. He has served as antitrust counsel on many major matters including, among others, for United Technologies in acquiring Goodrich; Novartis in acquiring Alcon; and Maytag in its acqui sition by Whirlpool.
Mr Byowitz received an AB (1973) from Columbia College and a JD (1976) from New York University School of Law (Order of the Coif and editor of New York University Law Review). Before joining Wachtell Lipton (1983), Mr Byowitz served as senior trial attorney with the antitrust division, US Department of Justice.
She holds non-executive board/trustee posi tions in a number of U.S. and U.K. organisations including the Friends of the American Friends of the British Council, Equality Now whose mission is “creating a just world for women and girls”, and the University of Oxford Law Foundation.
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Rachel is a non-governmental adviser to the International Competition Network, advising the European Commission (2013–2020) and the UK Competition and Markets Authority (2020–) on global cooperation initiatives.
Peers and clients say: “Rachel is a practitioner with extensive, high-calibre experience” “She is eminently qualified for inclusion among the best” “I have been consistently impressed with the breadth of her expertise”
Previously, she was a partner for 21 years in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, based in the firm’s Brussels and London offices, where she led many groundbreaking cases in front of the European Commission, the UK competition and regulatory agencies, and other agencies around the world. She was also the co-head of the firm’s global telecommunications, media and technology regulatory group.
Rachel Brandenburger
Rachel Brandenburger is a leading international antitrust and regulatory law and policy advisor. She works at the interface of business and govern ment and is a trusted advisor at board and senior executive levels to businesses and governments around the world. She has been a senior adviser and foreign legal consultant to Hogan Lovells US LLP, based in New York, since 2014.
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From 2010 to 2013, Rachel was Special Advisor, International to the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, based in Washington, DC. She advised on many Antitrust Division investigations that involved extensive cooperation efforts between the Antitrust Division and its international coun terparts, revised best practices regarding cooper ation in merger investigations with the European Commission, and memoranda of understanding with the Chinese antimonopoly agencies and the Competition Commission of India. She also advised on cooperation and procedural fairness initiatives with the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Competition Network and the competition chapters in the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) proposals.
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She is a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute of European and Comparative Law and a visiting law fellow at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, where she lectures on “The global dimension of compe tition law”. She has also given guest lectures at Columbia University; New York University; King’s College, London; the London School of Economics; the University of East Anglia and the University of HongSheKong.isa member of the American Antitrust Institute’s advisory board, the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section’s International Comments and Policy Committee, and the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar’s Antitrust Law Section; and is the editor in charge of the agency insight section of the Oxford University Press’ Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
Mr Byowitz is a frequent speaker on anti trust issues in the US and abroad. He is consist ently ranked among leading antitrust specialists in peer reviews including Global Competition Review, Who’s Who Legal, Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers and Chambers
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Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Ms Delbaum was an attorney general’s honours programme attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. While at the division, Ms Delbaum investigated possible violations of the antitrust laws involving mergers and acquisitions, the reporting and waiting requirements of the HartScott-Rodino Act and civil599price-fixing.Lexington
”Damien is a brilliantly talented antitrust lawyer”
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Mr Byowitz is an honorary lifetime member of AIJA (the International Young Lawyers Association).
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Jessica Delbaum is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s antitrust practice. Her practice focuses on defending multinational companies’ mergers and acquisitions before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, as well as coordinating the multijurisdictional antitrust defense of transactions. Ms Delbaum also counsels clients on an extensive array of antitrust issues such as competitor collaborations, cartel leniency applications, and Hart-Scott-Rodino Act compli ance, including integration planning. Ms Delbaum has defended substantive merger investigations involving a wide variety of industries, including in the health care, airlines, agriculture, publishing, chemicals, retail and finance sectors.
Mr Byowitz was active in the New York City Bar over many years, serving on its executive committee (and as chair of its subcommittee, evaluating Elena Kagan’s nomination to the US Supreme Court). He has chaired its council on international affairs and its antitrust and trade regulation committee.
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Mr Byowitz has long been active in the American Bar Association. He serves as delegateat-large to the ABA House of Delegates, having previously served in the House for the section of international law and the NY State Bar Association. He is a member of the Committee on Issues of Significance to the Legal Profession. Mr Byowitz is chair-elect of the fellows of the American Bar Foundation, was previously New York State co-chair of the fellows, and has received the Outstanding State Co-Chair Award. He is presently a member of the ABA’s presidential appointment committee. Mr Byowitz is a member (and chairs the international subcommittee) of the ABA standing committee on membership, and served on a presidential task force on federal pleading standards. He has served as chair of the ABA section of international law, as well as three of its divisions; chair of the interna tional antitrust law committee; and co-chair of its international pro bono committee. He has received the Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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”She is very responsive and shows impres sive work ethic”
“Jessica has encyclopaedic knowledge of her practice area and is able to provide timely, practical advice”
”His ability to quickly, clearly and succinctly identify and distil the key competition issues in a merger is particularly noteworthy”
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Peers and clients say: “Jessica is excellent at spotting issues and suggesting solutions”
Damian G Didden practises in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Antitrust Department where he advises clients on various aspects of competi tion law matters. Mr Didden’s particular focus is analysing the antitrust risk of mergers and acqui sitions, and guiding clients through the merger review process before federal, state and foreign regulators. He has advised clients engaged in a diverse spectrum of sectors, including: telecom munications, banking and financial services, entertainment and media, Internet-based services, technology and software, defence, retail operations, and manufacturing, among other industrial clas sifications. Mr Didden became partner at Wachtell Lipton in January 2009.
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Mr Didden received an AB cum laude in philos ophy from Boston College, where he completed the arts and sciences honours programme in 1992. He received a JD cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1997. Mr Didden is admitted to practise in Maryland and New York. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section.
Mr Didden joined the firm as an asso ciate in 2001, after spending two years as a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. While at the Antitrust Division, Mr Didden investigated several high-profile merger transactions, including #GE/ Honeywell and Viacom/CBS, among others. Prior to joining the antitrust division, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Hector M Laffitte, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
Peers and clients say: “Damien Didden is an exceptional competition lawyer”
Peers and clients say: “He is the senior statesman of antitrust law” “I highly recommend his excellent practice”
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Nick Gaglio provides counsel on a full range of antitrust issues to clients in diverse industries ranging from recycled paper to food and beverage packaging and sports equipment to sports entertainment.Nickhashelped clients obtain clearance for complex strategic mergers, including as global coordinating counsel in multi-jurisdictional trans actions, and representing both owners and their portfolio companies on buy- and sell-side deals. He recently guided Easton Sports and its private equity ownership through Easton’s acquisition by Rawlings Sporting Goods, securing clearance without remedies in under 60 days.
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Nick also counsels corporations on anti trust compliance, including labor-related issues (“no-poach”), joint ventures and collab orations, vertical distribution and e-commerce arrangements.
Lisl Dunlop has more than 30 years of experience in antitrust and competition issues, including counseling, litigation and transactions. Lisl guides clients through the antitrust-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other combinations, and sales and distribution matters. She also represents clients in antitrust investiga tions, and has represented major corporations in complex antitrust litigations. Lisl has significant experience advising leading US and multinational companies in a broad range of industries, including the media, technology and healthcare sectors. For her healthcare clients, Lisl provides antitrust and strategic advice in evaluating value-based payment initiatives, the establishment and operation of ACOs and independent physician networks, financial and clinical integration issues, and other transactions and collaborations.Lisl’swide-ranging international experience includes appearing before US federal and state antitrust enforcement agencies, the European Commission, and UK and Australian antitrust authorities. She has led clients through inves tigations by multiple competition agencies, and coordinated the multijurisdictional defense of transactions throughout the world. Lisl’s experi ence in competition matters in a broad range of jurisdictions brings added value to clients that conduct business internationally and interact with different legal systems and
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Peers and clients say: “I highly recommend Nelson’s excellent competition practice” “He is well known as a first-rate lawyer”
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”Nicholas is an extremely technical lawyer”
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Mr. Fitts was educated at Princeton University (A.B. 1996, cum laude) and Columbia Law School (J.D. 1999) and was a James Kent Scholar (Editor, Columbia Law Review).
Peers and clients say: “Lisl is very respon sive and shows an impressive work ethic” ”She is a great coordinator”
Peers and clients say: “He is a recognised leader of the bar”
Mr. Fitts joined the firm following his clerkship for the Honorable John G. Heyburn II of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in Louisville. He received an A.B. in History cum laude from Princeton University in 1996 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1999. At Columbia, Mr. Fitts was a James Kent Scholar and an editor of the Columbia Law Review. He serves as a trustee of the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City and Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.
Nick represents clients in federal and state investigations, including defending foreign companies and their U.S. subsidiaries in criminal matters (including negotiating fine reduction) and follow-on class action multidistrict litigation. His team defending a Japanese manufacturer in the Auto Parts litigation was recognized for “creative, strategic and innovative litigation” with a GCR Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defence nomina tion. Nick’s broad antitrust litigation experience spans from conception through decision and has included strategic assessment and crafting of claims and defenses, tactical advocacy at critical pretrial stages, high-value settlement negotiation, and execution at trial.
Nelson Fitts joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 2000 and was named partner in 2007. He prac tices in the firm’s antitrust group, where he focuses on analysis of competition issues in mergers, acqui sitions, auctions, joint ventures, takeover defense and advocacy before federal, state and foreign anti trustMr.authorities.Fittsrepresents parties in a broad range of energy, industrial, chemical, medical, pharma ceutical, financial and technology transactions. He is a frequent writer and lecturer on antitrust and mergers and acquisitions.
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John Harkrider was named GCR’s Lawyer of the Year and Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer in connection with the FTC’s investigation of Google. He currently represents Google in the Section 2 investigation before agencies throughout the world.Headvised Dell in its US$67 billion acquisition of EMC; Ball in its US$6.85 billion acquisition of Rexam PLC; Thermo Fisher in its US$13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies and its US$12.5 billion tender offer of QIAGEN; Google in its US$12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility and its US$700 million acquisition of ITA; Cingular in its US$41 billion acquisition of AT&T; and BellSouth in its US$67 billion acquisition by AT&T.
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John has represented Stanley Black & Decker, Tyson and United Technologies in Sherman Act litigation in district and circuit courts throughout the US. In government investigations, he advised Google regarding the FTC’s investigation of Standard Essential Patents, and Stanley Black & Decker regarding Made in USA Claims.
Ilene Knable Gotts is a partner in the New York City law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she focuses on antitrust matters, particu larly relating to mergers and acquisitions. Transactions in which Mrs. Gotts advised include Thoma Brava/RealPage, Mondelēz/Kitchen Hu, Wesco/Anixter, Simon Property/Taubman, Wex/eNett, Mondelēz/Give &Go, Siris Capital/ Travelport, UnitedHealth Group/Davita Medical Group, Publicis Groupe/Epsilon, XO Group/ WeddingWire, Siris Capital Group/Travelport Worldwide, IFF/Frutarom, Salesforce/Mulesoft, Prysmian/General Cable, Mondelēz/Tate’s Bake Shop, CenturyLink/Level 3, Danone/WhiteWave Foods, Gaming and Leisure Properties/Pinnacle Entertainment, Faiveley/Wabtec, Charter/Time Warner Cable/Bright House, J.M. Smucker’s/ Big Heart Pet Brands, Publicis/Sapient, Essilor/ PPG Industries, Deutsche Telekom/MetroPCS, ConAgra/Ralcorp, PPG Industries/Georgia Gulf, Aetna/Coventry, and International Paper/TempleInland. Mrs. Gotts is regularly recognized as one of the world’s top antitrust lawyers, including being recognized by Euromoney’s Women in Business Law with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, in the 2006-2018 Editions of The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers as one of the top five global competition lawyers, in the first tier ranking of Chambers USA Guide, the “leading individuals” ranking of PLC Which Lawyer Yearbook, the Antitrust Lawyer of the Year for 2016 by Best Lawyers, Top Lawyer of the Year for 2017 by Cablefax, and Number one North America Thought Leader in the 2018 Edition of Who’s Who Legal
Mrs. Gotts previously worked as a staff attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureaus of Competition and Consumer Protection. Mrs. Gotts is an officer of the IBA’s Competition Committee. She served on the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors from 2015-2018, having previ ously served as the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law. In 20062007, Mrs. Gotts was the Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, which recognized her service to the antitrust bar with the Lifland Service Award in 2010; she has been a member of the American Law Institute for over 20 years. Mrs. Gotts is a frequent guest speaker, has had approximately 200 articles published on anti trust related topics, and served as the editor of the ABA’s Merger Review Process book, Law Business Research’s Private Competition Enforcement Review (2008-2020 Editions) and Law Business Research’s Merger Control Review (2010-2020 Editions). She is a member of the editorial board of The Antitrust Counselor, Antitrust Report, and Competition Law International publications. Mrs. Gotts is a member of the Lincoln Center Counsel’s Council. BTI Consulting Group has recognized Mrs. Gotts as a BTI Client Service All-Star for her level of dedication and commitment to exceptional client service.
”He gets deals through quickly”
Mrs. Gotts was educated at the University of Maryland (B.A. 1980, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1984, cum laude).
Peers and clients say: “Ilene is truly outstanding and very effective”
Peers and clients say: “John is a first-class ”Helawyer”isvery impressive!”
He advised IMG in its merger with Learfield and MasterCard’s Board of Directors regarding their IPO to end the claimed structural conspiracy between the banks.
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“She is a leading antitrust and legislation lawyer”
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“She is incredibly thorough and possesses a tireless work ethic”
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Elai is recognised as a leading antitrust lawyer by Chambers USA , The Legal 500 , Benchmark Litigation and WWL: Competition
“Elaine is highly experienced and excellent to work with”
”He is always a pleasure to work with and keeps a cool head in critical situations”
Elaine Johnston Allen & Overy LLP
Elaine Johnston is head of Allen & Overy’s US antitrust practice and co-head of the global anti trust practice. She handles matters in a wide range of industries, including banking and finan cial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, food products, chemicals, oil and gas, and industrial products. Elaine has been featured in Chambers USA, PLC Which Lawyer?, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers, and Global Competition Review’s Women in Antitrust 2021.
Elaine is the chair of the antitrust law section of the New York State Bar Association and a member of the American Bar Association anti trust section. Elaine received her LLM from the University of Michigan law school, where she was a Fulbright scholar, and her BA (Hons) and MA from Clare College, Cambridge University, UK.
”She is excellent for premerger work”
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Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
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Peers and clients say: “She is a brilliant lawyer with a wonderful commercial sense”
Elai advises clients on mergers and acquisi tions; joint ventures, distribution and marketing arrangements and pricing policies; participation in trade association activities; and interaction with competitors. He has successfully guided a broad range of transactions through the antitrust regula tory review process in the US and abroad, including Shutterstock, Inc.’s acquisition of Pond5, ICON plc’s acquisition of PRA Health Sciences and Arch Capital Group’s acquisition, along with Warburg Pincus and Kelso, of Watford. Elai has a particularly strong record in obtaining quick and positive reso lutions during the early phases of merger reviews, and is especially attuned to the role global antitrust review plays in negotiating and completing mergers and acquisitions.Elaihasrepresented clients in a variety of antitrust disputes, including complex class actions alleging price fixing and monopolisation, as well as matters involving distribution arrangements and price discrimination. Significant matters include representation of global banks in LIBOR, FX and interest rate swaps-related litigation and investi gations; and of economics scholars as amici curiae in Ohio v American Express
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Peers and clients say: “Elai provides a wonderful service and possesses deep knowledge of the industry and antitrust law”
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Elaine represents merging parties before the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, as well as companies in non-merger investigations. She has handled significant deals for Bridgepoint, BTG, Computershare, EQT, Experian, Fresenius, Imperial Brands, Pacific Equity Partners, TDR, TP ICAP, and WillScot, among others. Elaine is also involved in antitrust litigation, including representing Merz Pharmaceuticals, Experian, and Saudi Aramco. She regularly advises compa nies on business conduct, including distribution, licensing, patent pools, information exchanges, and benchmarking.Sheserved on the editorial board of the ABA’s Competition Laws Outside the United States , and is a former associate editor of the Antitrust Law Journal and a former member of the antitrust and trade regulation committee of the New York City Bar Association. She is a frequent speaker at anti trust conferences and seminars.
Elai writes and speaks frequently on antitrust topics. He writes a bi-monthly column in The New York Law Journal, reporting and commenting on antitrust law developments in the US and over seas. Elai is a regular participant, as a panelist and moderator, at the annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association and the ABA’s spring meeting.
Elai leads Cahill’s antitrust practice and focuses his work on a wide range of antitrust law matters, including litigation, mergers and acquisitions, counselling, and government investigations.
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ship Lipitor), Wyeth (relating to Effexor XR, a blockbuster antidepressant) and Warner Chilcott (relating to Loestrin, a well-known oral contracep tive). Mr. Milne also handled the first jury trial of an antitrust challenge to a claimed “reverse payment” patent settlement, securing a verdict in favour of his client Geneva AdditionalPharmaceuticals.workincludes:representing the LG Electronics in major litigation advancing antitrust claims against Dolby Laboratories for abuse of standard essential patents; Vanderbilt University in class action antitrust claims against Top-25 US universities claiming collusion in financial aid awards; OPEC against claims of price fixing of petroleum-based products, recently securing dismissal of such claims; CertainTeed Gypsum, a leading construction products company, in nationwide class actions alleging price-fixing of gypsum wallboard; Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian national oil company, securing dismissal of nationwide class actions challenging the activi ties of OPEC members; and Experian Information Solutions, securing dismissal of class action liti gation alleging collusion among major financial institutions, credit reporting agencies and scoring companies to fix consumer interest rates. He also secured a jury verdict in favour of Experian Information Solutions in an action alleging that the three major US credit bureaux committed trade mark infringement and unfair competition in the sale of credit scoring
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A prosecutor in the United States Department of Justice until 1987, James was chief of the anti trust division’s Dallas office. In the division, he also held the positions of special assistant, office of operations, in Washington and trial attorney in Philadelphia. James served as a special assistant United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania in 1981 and 1982.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Milne served as a trial attorney for the antitrust division of the US Department of Justice, where he worked on civil and criminal matters around the United States.
Peers and clients say: “Rob deserves his reputation as a first-rate trial lawyer”
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”He is calm and practical in stressful situations”
James A Backstrom James A Backstrom Counsellor At Law
From his office in Philadelphia, James Backstrom defends individuals and firms in federal criminal, civil and administrative inquiries and prosecutions including antitrust, fraud, tax, trade control and national security matters. He has represented numerous executives and corporations in grand jury investigations and prosecutions conducted by antitrust division sections in Washington, DC and all division field offices. He has appeared in anti trust proceedings in both the US and Canada and on behalf of citizens of 16 foreign nations.
Since 2005, James has been a member of the ABA’s international cartel task force, which consults other nations on enforcement issues.
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He has written extensively on antitrust topics and spoken at the ABA’s section of antitrust law events. He is a principal author and editor of the Criminal Antitrust Litigation Handbook, second edition, published by the ABA section in 2007. He also appears as a panellist at corporate govern ance programmes. James has been qualified as an expert witness on the US Sentencing Guidelines and Justice Department charging decisions.
Peers and clients say: “Jim is an excellent criminal defence lawyer”
”He is very experienced, including through trial, and has good judgement”
James is admitted to the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania and Texas bars, as well as in federal courts including the Supreme Court of the United States. He was educated at Northwestern University (BSS 1973) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (JD 1976).
Robert Milne is a member of White & Case’s inter nationally recognised global antitrust group and focuses on complex antitrust litigation (civil and criminal) and counselling matters. He is widely regarded as a leading practitioner in these areas based on his significant experience and track record, winning notable victories in cases where billions of dollars were at stake. Mr. Milne has been named to Law360’s “MVP” list of top antitrust lawyers in the country, and was separately named as a top life sciences lawyer by the same publica tion. He has also been recognised as a “Forty Under Forty” top litigator by the National Law Journal and as a leading antitrust practitioner by such publi cations as Chambers USA, The Legal 500: United States, Best Lawyers in America and Benchmark Litigation
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Mr. Milne has litigated cases throughout the United States, including matters before the US Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies. He has a particularly deep knowledge and experience in the pharmaceutical, construction, energy, high tech and financial services industries, and much of his work involves clients based outside the United States and/or matters having significant international dimensions.
Recent work includes representing Pfizer in cutting-edge litigation against Johnson & Johnson relating to efforts by J&J to limit uptake of a biosimilar to Remicade, a major J&J block buster; representing a range of leading pharma ceutical companies in nationwide class action suits claiming delayed entry of generic compe tition through allegedly unlawful procurement or enforcement of patents and/or settlement of patent litigation. Among Mr. Milne’s clients in these cases are Pfizer, Wyeth, Boehringer Ingelheim and AbbVie and NovaSep. Mr. Milne secured important dismissals of such claims in three of these litiga tions, on behalf of Pfizer (relating to its then-flag
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Caroline Coops
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Dave Poddar
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Michael Corrigan Clayton Utz mcorrigan@claytonutz.com
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Elizabeth Richmond Clayton Utz erichmond@claytonutz.com Declan Roche Banco Chambers declan.roche@banco.net.au
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Johnson Winter & Slattery sar.katdare@jws.com.au
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Sharon Henrick
David G Anderson
Fiona Carlin Baker McKenzie CVBA/SCRL fiona.carlin@bakermckenzie.com Riccardo Celli O’Melveny & Myers LLP rcelli@omm.com
Reidlinger Schatzmann Rechtsanwälte GmbH stenitzer@rs-ra.eu
Serge Clerckx Jones Day sclerckx@jonesday.com
Axel Reidlinger
Hector Armengod Latham & Watkins LLP hector.armengod@lw.com
bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte GmbH florian.neumayr@bpv-huegel.com
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP palexiadis@gibsondunn.com Elvira Aliende Rodriguez* Shearman & Sterling LLP elvira.alienderodriguez@shearman.com
Yves Botteman Dentons yves.botteman@dentons.com
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Frederic Depoortere Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates frederic.depoortere@skadden.com
David W Hull
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Anne Federle Bird & Bird
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Stephan Polster
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte King & Spalding LLP scisnaldeugarte@kslaw.com
Miranda Cole Covington & Burling LLP mcole@cov.com
Jean-François Bellis Van Bael & Bellis jfbellis@vbb.com
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Heinrich Kühnert
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Edward W (Bill) Batchelor
Andreas Traugott Baker McKenzie andreas.traugott@bakermckenzie.com
Anna Lyle-Smythe
Reysen Competition Advice & Advocacy mreysen@rcaa.eu
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Thomas Wessely
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP michael.jaspers@freshfields.com
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Slaughter and May kerry.oconnell@slaughterandmay.com Gerrit Oosterhuis Houthoff g.oosterhuis@houthoff.com
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Michael Rosenthal Sullivan & Cromwell LLP rosenthalm@sullcrom.com
Gleiss Lutz ulrich.soltesz@gleisslutz.com
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Stephen O Spinks
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Marc Reysen*
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Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo Garrigues SLP alfonso.lamadrid@garrigues.com
James R Modrall
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP jay.modrall@nortonrosefulbright.com
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Romano Subiotto QC Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP rsubiotto@cgsh.com
Latham & Watkins LLP lars.kjolbye@lw.com
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Bredin Prat valerielandes@bredinprat.com
Linklaters LLP nikolaos.peristerakis@linklaters.com
Jennifer Mellott
White & Case LLP jmaclennan@whitecase.com
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White & Case LLP akomninos@whitecase.com
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates ingrid.vandenborre@skadden.com
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WilmerHale frederic.louis@wilmerhale.com
Kris Van Hove Van Bael & Bellis kvanhove@vbb.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP jennifer.mellott@freshfields.com
Izzet M Sinan
Slaughter and May anna.lyle-smythe@slaughterandmay.com
Miguel Rato
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Jérémie Jourdan
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Matthew Levitt
Michael Bo Jaspers
Massimo Merola BonelliErede massimo.merola@belex.com
Tomas Nilsson Latham & Watkins LLP tomas.nilsson@lw.com
Luis Ortiz Blanco Garrigues SLP luis.ortiz.blanco@garrigues.com Aurelio Pappalardo BonelliErede aurelio.pappalardo@beplex.com
Nikolaos M Peristerakis
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Paul McGeown Independent paul@mcgeown.eu
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Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP izzet.sinan@morganlewis.com Robbert Snelders
Thomas Vinje Clifford Chance LLP thomas.vinje@cliffordchance.com
Giorgio Motta
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Philipp Werner Jones Day pwerner@jonesday.com
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Christina Renner
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Koen Platteau Simmons & Simmons koen.platteau@simmons-simmons.com Jean Paul Poitras Latham & Watkins LLP jeanpaul.poitras@lw.com
Tom McQuail
John Ratliff WilmerHale john.ratliff@wilmerhale.com
Paul Lugard
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Oliver Borgers McCarthy Tétrault LLP oborgers@mccarthy.ca Cassandra Brown Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP cassandra.brown@blakes.com
Grinberg e Cordovil Advogados mg@gcalaw.com.br
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Maria Eugênia Novis
A Neil Campbell McMillan LLP neil.campbell@mcmillan.ca
Barbosa, Raimundo, Gontijo e Câmara Advogados pedrozanotta@brgc.com.br Renata Zuccolo Mattos Filho renata.zuccolo@mattosfilho.com.br
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Ontario George N Addy Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP gaddy@dwpv.com
Jason Gudofsky McCarthy Tétrault LLP jgudofsky@mccarthy.ca
Susanne Zuehlke Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP szuehlke@willkie.com
Ricardo Franco Botelho Marchini Botelho Caselta Advogados ricardo.botelho@mbclaw.com.br
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Calvin S Goldman QC The Law Office of Calvin Goldman, Q.C. cg@calvingoldmanlaw.com
Leonardo Peres da Rocha e Silva Pinheiro Neto Advogados lrochaesilva@pn.com.br
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Mauro Grinberg
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José Carlos da Matta Berardo Lefosse Advogados zeca.berardo@lefosse.com
Casey W Halladay McCarthy Tétrault LLP challaday@mccarthy.ca
Paul Collins* Stikeman Elliott LLP pcollins@stikeman.com Emrys Davis Bennett Jones LLP davise@bennettjones.com
Anita Banicevic Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP abanicevic@dwpv.com Subrata Bhattacharjee Borden Ladner Gervais LLP sbhattacharjee@blg.com
Antoine Winckler
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Clifford Chance LLP Yong.Bai@cliffordchance.com
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Nicholas Frey Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP nicholas.frey@freshfields.com
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ian.giles@nortonrosefulbright.com
Jiri Kindl
Mark Brealey QC Monckton Chambers mbrealey@monckton.com
Helmy, Hamza & Partners (Baker McKenzie International) mohamed.elfar@bakermckenzie.com
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP antonio.bavasso@stblaw.com
Linklaters LLP christian.ahlborn@linklaters.com
Michael Klöcker
Vejmelka & Wünsch s r o prague@vejwun.cz
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Philipp Girardet
Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP pgirardet@willkie.com
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Paul Gilbert
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP mdolmans@cgsh.com
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Michael Honoré
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HAVEL & PARTNERS, Attorneys-at-law robert.neruda@havelpartners.cz
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Pinsent Masons LLP alan.davis@pinsentmasons.com
Skils s.r.o. advokatni kancelar jiri.kindl@skils.cz
Michael Engel
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Bruun & Hjejle fab@bruunhjejle.dk
ChristianEnglandAhlborn
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP sally.evans@kirkland.com Cameron Firth Macfarlanes LLP cameron.firth@macfarlanes.com
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP pgilbert@cgsh.com
Kromann Reumert erb@kromannreumert.com
Axel Beckmerhagen Sullivan & Cromwell LLP beckmerhagena@sullcrom.com
David Bailey Brick Court Chambers david.bailey@brickcourt.co.uk Alasdair Balfour Kirkland & Ellis alasdair.balfour@kirkland.com Rona Bar-Isaac Addleshaw Goddard LLP rona.bar-isaac@addleshawgoddard.com
Mark W Friend* Allen & Overy LLP mark.friend@allenovery.com
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP mark.gardner@kirkland.com Davina Garrod* Akin Gump LLP davina.garrod@akingump.com
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Frederik André Bork
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Mario Navarrete-Serrano
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Alan Davis
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Peter Stig Jakobsen Bech-Bruun psj@bechbruun.com
Honoré, Fallesen & Andersen mih@honorefallesen.dk
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP deba.das@freshfields.com
Mark Gardner
Accura Advokatpartnerselskab christina.heiberg-grevy@accura.dk
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Robert Neruda
Rod Carlton
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Kim Dietzel
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Plesner Advokatpartnerselskab dba@plesner.com
Bart A Creve
Antonio Bavasso
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David Aitman
Daniel Beard QC Monckton Chambers dbeard@monckton.com
Philippe Chappatte Slaughter and May philippe.chappatte@slaughterandmay.com
Edward Coulson
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Matt Evans
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Simon Evers Kalsmose-Hjelmborg Bech-Bruun seh@bechbruun.com
Erik Kjær-Hansen Gorrissen Federspiel ekh@gorrissenfederspiel.com
DLA Piper Denmark Law Firm michael.kloecker@dlapiper.com
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Kirkland & Ellis International LLP michael.engel@kirkland.com
Lexvalor Abogados lmarin@lexvalor.com
David Anderson QC
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Duncan Liddell* Ashurst LLP duncan.liddell@ashurst.com
Sarah Jordan Goodwin sjordan@goodwinlaw.com
Blackstone Chambers brian.kennelly@blackstonechambers.com
Simon Pritchard
Simon Priddis
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Dominic Long* Allen & Overy LLP dominic.long@allenovery.com Bertrand Louveaux
Becket McGrath
Marjorie C Holmes
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP alex.potter@freshfields.com
Alex Potter
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP martin.mcelwee@freshfields.com
Brick Court Chambers mark.hoskins@brickcourt.co.uk
Alison Jones
Suyong Kim
Veronica Roberts
Jenine Hulsmann
Ros Kellaway
Paula Riedel
Sophie Lawrance Bristows LLP sophie.lawrance@bristows.com
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP peter.scott@nortonrosefulbright.com
Annie Herdman
John Schmidt
Brick Court Chambers maya.lester@brickcourt.co.uk
Mark Hoskins QC
Sarah Long Euclid Law sarah.long@euclid-law.eu
Euclid Law gavin.robert@euclid-law.eu
Brian Kennelly QC
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP rodriguezja@sullcrom.com
Ronit Kreisberger QC Monckton Chambers rkreisberger@monckton.com
Bruce Kilpatrick
Jonathan Parker Latham & Watkins jonathan.parker@lw.com Nigel Parr* Ashurst LLP nigel.parr@ashurst.com Ruchit Patel
Linklaters LLP rachel.hetherington@linklaters.com
Addleshaw Goddard LLP bruce.kilpatrick@addleshawgoddard.com
Clifford Chance LLP elizabeth.morony@cliffordchance.com Simon Neill Osborne Clarke LLP simon.neill@osborneclarke.com
Brian Sher
Timothy McIver
Rachel Hetherington
Stephen P Smith
Allen & Overy LLP philip.mansfield@allenovery.com
Monckton Chambers jholmes@monckton.com
Marc Israel
Omar S Shah
Brick Court Chambers daniel.jowell@brickcourt.co.uk
Dinah Rose QC Blackstone Chambers dinahrose@blackstonechambers.com Diarmuid Ryan
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (UK) LLP john.schmidt@arnoldporter.com
Alistair Lindsay Monckton Chambers alindsay@monckton.com
Mark Jephcott
Daniel Jowell QC
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP tmciver@debevoise.com
Anneli Howard QC
Philip Mansfield*
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP veronica.roberts@hsf.com
Bristows LLP stephen.smith@bristows.com
Stephen Kon
Clifford Chance LLP jenine.hulsmann@cliffordchance.com
Elizabeth Morony
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP andrew.hockley@blplaw.com
Clifford Chance LLP nelson.jung@cliffordchance.com
White & Case LLP marc.israel@whitecase.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP mark.sansom@freshfields.com
Alex Nourry
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP brian.sher@cms-cmno.com
Nicole Kar Linklaters LLP nicole.kar@linklaters.com
Elizabeth Jordan Slaughter and May charmian.may@slaughterandmay.com
Andrew Hockley
Simmons & Simmons LLP mark.jephcott@simmons-simmons.com
Nigel Seay* Travers Smith LLP nigel.seay@traverssmith.com
David R Little Latham & Watkins david.little@lw.com
Clifford Chance LLP alex.nourry@cliffordchance.com
Euclid Law becket.mcgrath@euclid-law.eu
Reed Smith LLP mholmes@reedsmith.com
Monckton Chambers ahoward@monckton.com
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP nlevy@cgsh.com
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP paula.riedel@kirkland.com
Linklaters LLP simon.pritchard@linklaters.com Matthew Readings* Shearman & Sterling LLP matthew.readings@shearman.com
Juan Rodriguez
Hogan Lovells International LLP suyong.kim@hoganlovells.com
Hogan Lovells International LLP nicholas.heaton@hoganlovells.com
Eversheds Sutherland roskellaway@eversheds.com
Douglas Lahnborg* Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe dlahnborg@orrick.com
Gavin Robert
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Slaughter and May claire.jeffs@slaughterandmay.com
Samantha J Mobley Baker McKenzie samantha.mobley@bakermckenzie.com
Macfarlanes LLP stephen.kon@macfarlanes.com
Ropes & Gray LLP ruchit.patel@ropesgray.com George Peretz QC Monckton Chambers gperetz@monckton.com Daniel Piccinin Brick Court Chambers daniel.piccinin@brickcourt.co.uk Meredith Pickford QC Monckton Chambers mpickford@monckton.com
Josh Holmes QC
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP mark.simpson@nortonrosefulbright.com
Maya Lester QC
Slaughter and May bertrand.louveaux@slaughterandmay.com
Jon Lawrence
Clifford Chance LLP greg.olsen@cliffordchance.com
King’s College London alison.jones@kcl.ac.uk
Mark Simpson
Mark Sansom
Nelson Jung
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP simon.priddis@freshfields.com
Ropes & Gray LLP annie.herdman@ropesgray.com
Jackie Holland
Nicholas Levy
Brick Court Chambers tonysclerkingteam1@brickcourt.co.uk
Ali Nikpay Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP anikpay@gibsondunn.com Kristina Nordlander* Allen & Overy LLP kristina.nordlander@allenovery.com
Morgan Lewis & Bockius UK LLP omar.shah@morganlewis.com
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Mark Jones Jones Day markjones@jonesday.com
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Martin McElwee
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Nicholas Heaton
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP dvann@stblaw.com
Slaughter and May william.turtle@slaughterandmay.com
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James Webber*
Elo Tamm
Frontia Attorneys Ltd mikael.wahlbeck@frontia.fi Christian Wik Roschier, Attorneys Ltd christian.wik@roschier.com
Juliette Goyer Independent Philippe Guibert De Pardieu Brocas Maffei guibert@de-pardieu.com Jacques-Philippe Gunther Latham & Watkins jacques-philippe.gunther@lw.com Patrick Hubert Orrick Rambaud Martel SCP phubert@orrick.com Nathalie Jalabert-Doury* Mayer Brown njalabertdoury@mayerbrown.com Christophe Lemaire Ashurst LLP christophe.lemaire@ashurst.com Florence Ninane* Allen & Overy LLP florence.ninane@allenovery.com Jérôme Philippe Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP jerome.philippe@freshfields.com Florent Prunet Jeantet AARPI fprunet@jeantet.fr Marie-Cécile Rameau Bredin Prat mariececilerameau@bredinprat.com Emmanuel Reille Gide Loyrette Nouel AARPI reille@gide.com Iñaki Saint-Esteben Viguié Schmidt & Associés i.saintesteben@viguie-schmidt.com Katrin Schallenberg Clifford Chance Europe LLP katrin.schallenberg@cliffordchance.com Léna Sersiron Baker McKenzie AARPI Lena.Sersiron@bakermckenzie.com Igor Simic Bredin Prat igorsimic@bredinprat.com
Shearman & Sterling LLP james.webber@shearman.com
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IlkkaFinlandAalto-Setälä
Kate Vernon Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP katevernon@quinnemanuel.com
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Bea Tormey
Tom Usher
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Pat Treacy
Thomas de la Mare QC
Niko Hukkinen
FORT Legal rene.frolov@fortlegal.com
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Blackstone Chambers tomdelamare@blackstonechambers.com
Frontia Attorneys Ltd niko.hukkinen@frontia.fi
Paul Walter
Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP ewhiteford@willkie.com
Stephen Wisking
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Slaughter and May richard.swallow@slaughterandmay.com
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Deirdre Trapp
William Turtle
COBALT elo.tamm@cobalt.legal
Sergio Sorinas Herbert Smith Freehills LLP sergio.sorinas@hsf.com
Monckton Chambers tward@monckton.com
Monckton Chambers ksmith@monckton.com
Slaughter and May isabel.taylor@slaughterandmay.com
de la Serre Jones Day ebarbierdelaserre@jonesday.com Olivier Billard Bredin Prat olivierbillard@bredinprat.com Jacques Buhart* McDermott Will & Emery jbuhart@mwe.com Hugues Calvet Bredin Prat huguescalvet@bredinprat.com Julie Catala Marty Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner julie.catalamarty@bclplaw.com Olivier Cavézian Joffe & Associés ocavezian@joffeassocies.com Antoine Choffel Gide Loyrette Nouel AARPI choffel@gide.com Aurélien Condomines Aramis condomines@aramis-law.com Mathilde Damon BDGS Associés damon@bdgs-associes.com Loraine Donnedieu de Vabres-Tranié Tactics ldvt@tactics.law Emmanuel Durand DWF (France) AARPI e.durand@dwf.law Thomas Elkins Linklaters LLP thomas.elkins@linklaters.com Olivier Fréget* Fréget Glaser & Associés olivier.freget@freget-glaser.fr Frédéric Fuchs AYACHE f.fuchs@ayachelaw.com Adrien Giraud Latham & Watkins adrien.giraud@lw.com
Jon Turner QC
Thomas Wilson
Borenius Attorneys Ltd ilkka.aalto-setala@borenius.com
ReneEstoniaFrolov
David Tayar Clifford Chance Europe LLP david.tayar@cliffordchance.com Mélanie Thill-Tayara Dechert LLP melanie.thill-tayara@dechert.com Didier Théophile Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier dtheophile@darroisvilley.com
Matrix Chambers rhodrithompson@matrixlaw.co.uk
Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP nicholas.spearing@davispolk.com
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP stephen.wisking@hsf.com
Joseph Vogel Vogel & Vogel jvogel@vogel-vogel.com
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Kassie Smith QC
Rhodri Thompson QC
Elaine Whiteford
Nicholas Spearing
Richard Swallow
Ilkka Leppihalme Dittmar & Indrenius ilkka.leppihalme@dittmar.fi Leena Lindberg Krogerus leena.lindberg@krogerus.com Asko Lindqvist Borenius Attorneys Ltd asko.lindqvist@borenius.com Ami Paanajärvi Roschier, Attorneys Ltd ami.paanajarvi@roschier.com Mikael Wahlbeck
Monckton Chambers jturner@monckton.com
Frédéric de Bure
Michael Esser Latham & Watkins michael.esser@lw.com
Tim Reher CMS Hasche Sigle tim.reher@cms-hs.com
Christian Bahr Fieldfisher christian.bahr@fieldfisher.com
Fabian Badtke
Martin Klusmann
Ellen Braun* Allen & Overy LLP ellen.braun@allenovery.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP thomas.luebbig@freshfields.com Karsten Metzlaff Noerr PartGmbB karsten.metzlaff@noerr.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP peter.niggemann@freshfields.com
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP dschroeder@cgsh.com
Wolfgang Deselaers
Peter Niggemann
Martin Raible Gleiss Lutz martin.raible@gleisslutz.com
Alexander Rinne Milbank LLP arinne@milbank.com
Wolfgang Bosch Gleiss Lutz wolfgang.bosch@gleisslutz.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP ulrich.scholz@freshfields.com
Ulrich Scholz
Thomas Lübbig
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Martin Buntscheck Buntscheck Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH martin.buntscheck@buntscheck.com
Sebastian Janka Luther
Nicolas Kredel* Baker McKenzie Nicolas.Kredel@bakermckenzie.com
Isabel Oest Commeo Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB Isabel.Oest@commeo-law.com
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Silke Möller*
Bettina Bergmann
Evelyn Niitväli*
K&L Gates LLP
Osborne Clarke domain@osborneclarke.com
Alf-Henrik Bischke
Linklaters LLP
annette.mutschler-siebert@klgates.com
Hogan Lovells International LLP falk.schoening@hoganlovells.com
Joachim Schütze
Johann Brück Hermanns Wagner Brück Rechtsanwälte j.brueck@dr-hermanns.de
Noerr PartGmbB fabian.badtke@noerr.com
Max Klasse Blomstein max.klasse@blomstein.com
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Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.
LEGAL MARKETPLACE ANALYSIS | Economists
In this chapter, WWL presents 458 of the world’s leading competition economists. They have distinguished themselves in advising and testifying on a wide range of competition and antitrust issues including merger reviews, cartel investigations and abuse of dominance matters, among others.
METHODOLOGY
The Global Elite Thought Leaders are those individuals who received the highest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel and other market sources this year. Our research has identified them as being truly outstanding practitioners and the very best in their field.
Most listings in WWL: Competition 2022 | Economists
WWL does not list firms, only individual experts. The leading firms are those in each region whose listed practitioners received the most total nominations in our research. We highlight individuals at other firms who also scored very highly in our research.
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Jorge Padilla Compass Lexecon Madrid
RBB Economics
Elena Zoido has built a top-notch prac tice as an economic consultant, with over 19 years of experience on economic analysis and valuation issues across Europe and the Americas.
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Kirsten Edwards-Warren is lauded by sources for being “a smart and creative econ omist who has excellent client-management skills”.
Diana Jackson displays deep expertise in complex merger investigation matters, as well as market power issues in a range of sectors.
Benoît Durand is a highly accomplished economist, who comes highly recom mended for his “strong performance, which is excellent in all network-related economics analysis”.
Francesco Rosati receives extensive acclaim for his competition practice, which spans phase one and phase two merger investigations, as well as abuse of dominance matters.Co-founder of the firm Simon Bishop is a pre-eminent figure in the European competi tion market, with over 20 years of experience on mergers, vertical restraints and market definition issues.
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Bojana Ignjatovic has built and main tained an excellent reputation as a compe tition economist over 20 years, thanks to her strong track record with merger, abuse of dominance and market investigations.
The Brattle Group Brussels
Hans W Friederiszick
E.CA Economics Berlin
Francesco Rosati
Miguel de la Mano Compass Lexecon Brussels
Charles River Associates
Cristina Caffarra
E.CA Economics Berlin
Compass Lexecon London
Rainer Nitsche
Matthew Bennett earns plaudits from respondents for his impressive track record in high-profile UK mergers and brings expe rience as a former director of the CMA.
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Adrian Majumdar
Helen Jenkins Oxera Oxford
RBB Economics Brussels
Kai-Uwe Kühn
Charles River Associates Brussels
Ethel Fonseca receives widespread praise from market commentators for her work as a competition economist on merger, market abuse investigations and cartel matters.
Simon Bishop
RBB Economics London
Simon Chisholm is renowned for his substantial experience and expertise repre senting clients in their merger, market inves tigation and abuse of dominance matters.
Raphaël De Coninck Charles River Associates Brussels
Benoît Durand
RBB Economics Brussels
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Kirsten Edwards-Warren Compass Lexecon London
RBB Economics Brussels
Compass Lexecon
David Parker Frontier Economics Ltd London
Jorge Padilla receives comprehensive endorsements for his competition practice from market commentators, and has exten sive experience testifying before competition authorities in the EU.
Neil Dryden is a respected name in the competition space and is praised as “a clever, thorough and easy to work with” economist.
Lars Wiethaus comes highly recom mended by peers thanks to his outstanding work on high-value cartel, vertical restraint and transactional disputes in the space.
Oxera Consulting
EMEA
Cristina Caffarra receives substan tial endorsements from impressed market commentators, who herald her as “one of the clear leaders in the market”.
Helen Jenkins has forged a stellar economist practice over 25 years and is renowned for her incisive handling of issues across a broad
Raphaël De Coninck is an excellent and astute economist to work with report peers, and is well-versed in a range of competition matters including merger and damages analyses.
Lars Wiethaus Charles River Associates Brussels
Thilo Klein enjoys a sterling reputation among peers for his competition practice and offers clients the “rare combination of intellectual strength, pragmatic approach and clear language”.
Neil Dryden
Miguel de la Mano sits among the finest competition economists in Belgium and is described by peers as “a very skilled and knowledgeable expert” and “a great strategic thinker”.
Adrian Majumdar “very quickly cuts to the core of the issue and then has a real talent for presenting his work in a very convincing and straight-forward manner”.
Enno Eilts has a standout reputation in competition economics among peers and is experienced with follow-on damages claims in the transport, energy and e-commerce sectors.
John Fingleton of Fingleton Associates is a standout economist in the European market, especially when it comes to competition and consumer protection regulations.
Juan Delgado with Global Economics Group distinguishes himself as a competition econ omist in the Spanish market and is highly sought after by corporations and govern ments for his expertise in competition policy and regulations.
Rainer Nitsche with E.CA Economics is high lighted by market commentators as one of the best competition economists in Germany, who “consistently performs strongly on merger cases”.
Matthew Johnson is lauded by market commentators as “a knowledgeable practi tioner who is a pleasure to work with”.
Julia Dietrich is identified as a formi dable competition economist in the market. Her practice spans the full range of compe tition issues, including merger and cartel investigations.
Thomas Rønde with the Copenhagen Business School is a highly respected professor, with special expertise advising on competition issues in the tech industry.
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Denmark
David Spector at KPMG Economics receives impressive endorsements from market commentators for his work as a competition economist and is singled out as a leading name in the French market.
England
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Germany
Switzerland
Rachel Webster possesses substantial experience and expertise with competition litigation and policy as an expert, and is wellversed in UK and EU market investigations, merger control matters and state aid rules.
Samuel Rutz is singled out by peers as a consummate competition economist in Switzerland, who brings expansive expe rience as a former chief economist of the Swiss Competition Commission to his clients’ matters.
Avantika Chowdhury is held in high esteem as a go-to practitioner for merger, abuse of dominance and both horizontal and vertical agreement issues.
David Parker distinguishes himself among sources for his deep competition investigation expertise in matters both in Europe and the UK.
Amelia Fletcher with the University of East Anglia is a formidable name among compe tition economists, bringing experience as non-executive director at the FCA to her clients’ matters.
France
Robin Noble achieves widespread praise for his skill and experience in handling complex, high-profile matters for some of the world’s largest tech companies.
Gunnar Niels is a top-tier competition economist who is highly sought after for his skill with merger issues, abuse of dominance instructions and state aid matters.
Christian Jaag with Swiss Economics receives extensive recognition for his economics expertise. He is described as an expert who ensures “razor-sharp analytics and can explain highly complex issues simply”.
Kai-Uwe Kühn at The Brattle Group is iden tified by peers as one of Belgium’s foremost competition economists. He has over 25 years of experience with merger, cartel damages and antitrust issues.
Hans Friederiszick enjoys a top-notch reputation in Germany as a competition econ omist, with expertise in merger, cartel and abuse of dominance matters.
Massimo Motta of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics sits among Spain’s most respected competition economists. His prestigious background includes acting as the former chief competition economist of the European Commission.
David Foster gains impressive recom mendations for his stellar competition prac tice and is sought after for his experience and skill on cases before the EU commission.
Belgium
Peers of Grant Saggers at NERA Economic Consulting “have found him to be an impres sive and thorough operator, as well as a pleasure to work with”.
spectrum of sectors including the energy, financial services and retail industries.
Mette Alfter enjoys considerable endorsements from peers for her work as a competition economist and expansive prac tice, which encompasses merger cases, cartel issues and damages evaluations.
Spain
Toulouse School of Economics’ Jean Tirole is a powerhouse authority when it comes to competition economics and sits on the cutting edge of economic theory.
Zoltan Biro is a leading figure in the competition market, with over 30 years of experience in abuse of dominance and anti competitive practices cases.
Gregor Langus of Competitionsphere is a go-to economist in Belgium for a host of competition issues, including damages disputes, merger reviews and antitrust investigations.
Frontier Economics
Ariel Pakes is lauded as “a brilliant econo mist” by market commentators, who is wellversed in pricing, consumer welfare and productivity analyses in a variety of industries.
Charles River Associates Washington, DC
Benjamin Klein is an impressive anti trust economist who brings over 25 years of experience with complex antitrust analyses, including vertical restraints matters.
Lawrence Wu enjoys an excellent reputation as an economist, thanks to his strong track record in merger analyses, price fixing and exclusionary conduct matters.
Jonathan Baker is a well-respected name when it comes to competition and antitrust matters. His special focus on the telecommunications sector is received with further aplomb.
Charles River Associates Washington, DC
Bates White LLC Washington, DC
Nicholas Hill Bates White LLC Washington, DC
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Margaret Sanderson receives effusive praise for her work advising public and private sector clients in merger, monopoli sation and price fixing disputes.
Gregory Vistnes is celebrated as a leading competition and antitrust econo mist, who has provided economic analyses on mergers, monopolisation issues and price fixing matters on behalf of private parties and US federal authorities.
Dennis W Carlton
Elizabeth Bailey is a consummate competition economist who sits among the best in the market, with peers affirming, “She’s a great economist.”
and is widely sought after for his experience and expertise in merger and antitrust litiga tion proceedings.
Nicholas Hill receives a plethora of endorsements for his “excellent” work on antitrust matters across the banking, health care and telecommunications industries.
Charles River Associates Washington, DC
Bates White Economic Consulting
Vandy Howell is described by peers as “an incredibly smart economist, a fast learner in new areas, and just a delight to work with”.
Compass Lexecon Oakland
James Langenfeld Berkeley Research Group Washington, DC
Daniel Rubinfeld
Andrew Dick has built a top-tier practice
Timothy Bresnahan receives wideranging endorsements for his practice, which is geared towards market power and compe tition analyses, as well as testifying in liability and damages issues.
Compass Lexecon Washington, DC
Compass Lexecon
NORTH AMERICA
Subramaniam (Subbu) Ramanarayanan is widely appreciated and recommended as “a go-to name” for competition and antitrust economic issues.
Michelle Burtis is widely applauded for her outstanding practice covering highprofile antitrust litigation issues, merger analysis and monopolisation briefs.
Cory Capps is a widely acclaimed econ omist among peers in North America, who focuses on merger analysis, price fixing and
LEADING FIRMS
Mark Israel is a renowned economist with impressive domestic and international experience in regulatory and litigation proceedings in the aviation, telecommuni cations and finance sectors.
exclusionary conduct matters across a range of industries.
Robert Willig has a stellar reputation among peers in the antitrust market, with considerable expertise in damages, policy and merger issues.
B Douglas Bernheim
NERA Economic Consulting San Francisco
Elizabeth Bailey
Peter Reiss is identified as an estab lished and respected name when it comes to industrial organisation economics. His expertise lies in price fixing in the financial services industry, among others.
Michael Baye is the consummate compe tition economist, with “outstanding experi ence” acting as testifying expert in merger, monopolisation and pricing disputes.
Joseph Farrell is a renowned name in the antitrust and competition market and brings experience as a former director of the Bureau of Economics at the FTC to his clients’ anti trust matters.
NERA Economic Consulting
Michelle M Burtis
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Robert Willig
Compass Lexecon Chicago
B Douglas Bernheim enjoys a sterling reputation and has enviable experience in high-profile litigation, merger and regulatory matters.
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Charles River Associates
Michael Salinger is highlighted by sources for his strong track record advising government agencies and private companies on vertical merger issues.
Bates White LLC Washington, DC
Mark Israel Compass Lexecon Washington, DC
Cornerstone Research
Andrew R Dick
Daniel Rubinfeld is identified as a go-to competition economist in the North American market by peers. He is well-versed in merger and damages analyses in an antitrust and competition context.
Dennis Carlton is counted by peers as among the US’ best competition economists, with respondents describing him as “a really sharp economist”.
Steven C Salop
Joseph Farrell
Michael Whinston comes highly recom mended as an economist, with enviable expe rience in antitrust economics, regulations and price fixing issues.
Steven Salop receives high praise from peers for his top-drawer economics practice, which spans mergers, joint venture matters and exclusionary conduct.
Ramsey Shehadeh is a well-regarded economist among peers in the US market and is known for his expertise in economic policy and competition analyses pertaining to mergers.
Cleve Tyler receives impressive recom mendations for his work on antitrust and unfair competition matters, with sources confirming that he “does an excellent job”.
Canada
Loren Smith maintains an enviable prac tice as an economist, with peers appreciating him for his “sharp, nimble mind”.
antitrust market, thanks to his outstanding work in the space and his peerless experi ence at the DOJ.
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Berkeley Research Group
Aaron Edlin with the University of California at Berkeley School of Law is a top-drawer antitrust specialist, who has written exten sively on exclusionary pricing, cartels and merger issues.
USA
David Scheffman is recognised by peers as a pillar of the US antitrust and competition market, with near legendary experience at the FTC behind him.
Fabiana Tito of Tendências Consultoria Integrada secures stand-out recommenda tions from sources, thanks to her excellent work on international antitrust issues.
Brazil
Paulo Furquim de Azevedo at Insper Institute and Global Economics Group receives exten sive recommendations from peers for his practice and brings extensive experience as a former commissioner at CADE to his client’s cases.
Daniel McFadden with The Brattle Group is recognised by commentators as a keystone of the US antitrust and competition market. He is also a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
OTHER LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Juan-Pablo Montero Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago
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Chile
David Kaplan is singled out as a leading name in the US when it comes to antitrust economics, especially price fixing, monopo lisation and damages issues.
James Langenfeld receives endorsements from market commentators as “a smart and very experienced” economist, who focuses on antitrust, damages and class action matters.
Founding partner of LCA Consultores Bernardo Gouthier Macedo is a pillar of Brazil’s competition market, with over 30 years of experience in antitrust, regulatory and trade litigation issues.
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David Teece is a highly respected econo mist, with peers and clients readily endorsing his economics practice and reporting that he is “one of the pioneers of this industry”.
Carl Shapiro at the University of California at Berkeley - Haas School of Business is a legendary name in the US competition and
Joshua Gans at the Rotman School of Management is a leading antitrust econo mist in Canada, whose focus lies in antitrust policy issues and the economic drivers of innovation.
Renée Duplantis of The Brattle Group wins considerable endorsements for her compe tition practice and brings over 20 years of experience with merger analyses in the US, Canada and Europe to clients’ cases.
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Claudio A Agostini Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Santiago
Juan-Pablo Montero at The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile distinguishes himself as a top practitioner in Chile when it comes to competition and antitrust issues, with peers saying he is “a very well-known economist”.
Alexander Galetovic wins impressive endorsements from peers for his top-tier practice and is described by sources as “a very good economist”.
Claudio Agostini of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez is considered a leading economist in Chile, with immense expertise in antitrust and energy economics issues.
Paulo Furquim de Azevedo Insper Institute and Global Economics Group São Paulo
LATIN AMERICA
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
George Siolis with RBB Economics is a key expert in Australia, with sources readily
Founding partner of HoustonKemp Economists Greg Houston is an established name in the Australian competition market and is well-versed in advising clients on highstakes competition matters.
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Jennifer Fish of Charles River Associates is a favourite among peers and clients, who recommend her as “a very diligent, articulate competition economist”.
Frontier Economics’ Philip Williams takes a place among the best competition econo mists Australia has to offer and is described “a standout name in the market”.
Elsa Chen with Allen & Gledhill is a highly distinguished antitrust specialist, whom peers recommend as “an active and renowned practitioner”.
Singapore
recommend his practice and lauding him as “an excellent competition economist”.
Australia
New Zealand
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James Mellsop at NERA Economic Consulting impresses peers and clients with his expertise in competition and antitrust issues. Sources further laud him as “a skilled economist that we would continue to recommend”.
Tanya Tang of Rajah & Tann Singapore is identified by market commentators “an extremely sharp”, go-to economist in Singapore.
”She is smart and quick”
Peers and clients say: “She is a very crea tive and knowledgeable economist”
Xavier also worked as a research fellow at INSEE in France. A graduate from the École Polytechnique, he also holds a degree from ENSAE and a PhD in economics from EHESS (Paris School of Economics). Xavier is currently an adjunct professor and research fellow at ULB, and a founder and board member of l’Entente, the associ ation of French antitrust practitioners in Brussels.
rue Guimard 9 Brussels, 1040 Tel: +32 4875 aboutin@positivecompetition.com41337www.positivecompetition.com
Peers and clients say: “He is very smart and ”Workingcompetent”withXavier is always an absolute pleasure”
Raphaël De Coninck
Xavier Boutin Positive Competition
rue Guimard 9 Brussels, 1040 Tel: +32 495 79 60 xboutin@positivecompetition.com29www.positivecompetition.com
Aleksandra Boutin Positive Competition
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Aleksandra holds a master’s degree in theo retical economics and econometrics from the Toulouse School of Economics and a master’s degree in European law and economic analysis from the College of Europe. She completed her PhD studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where she teaches industrial organisation at grad uate level. She is also a member of the scientific committee of the Global Competition Law Centre.
Prior to founding Positive Competition and joining consulting, Xavier spent almost eight years in the chief economist team of the European Commission’s DG Competition. He was involved in a wide variety of high level antitrust, merger and state aid cases (including in front of the ECJ), as well as policy issues (including the 102 guidance paper and the 101 horizontal guidelines). Xavier contributed to many policy initiatives in the food chain and competitiveness of the European Industry and was involved in the State Aid Modernization, in particular R&D&I, Regional Aid and evaluation.
Raphaël advises clients on competition matters in front of the European Commission and national authorities, as well as in litigation and in arbitration. In addition to European cases and multi-jurisdictional filings, he has provided expert economic evidence in Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland, and regularly works on transatlantic cases in close collaboration with US colleagues.
Raphaël’s experience spans a wide range of products and industries, including the tech sector, pharmaceuticals, consumer products and retail, transport, telecoms, energy, basic industries, finan cial services, media and entertainment. While at CRA, he has worked for clients such as Apple, Universal Music Group, TomTom, Dolby, Pfizer, Novartis, Mylan, Baxter, Abbott, GE, Linde, Novelis, Energizer, Danone, Heineken, Henkel, L’Oréal, ABF, Ahold Delhaize, Virgin Atlantic, Wallenius, Cable Europe, Canal+, SFR, FIFA, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, private equity firms and the European Commission.
Prior to joining CRA, Raphaël was a member of DG Competition’s chief economist team at the European Commission. While at the Commission, he contributed to major competition policy initia tives, including the European Commission’s Best Practices for Economic Submissions and Data Collection in Merger and Antitrust Cases, and the European Commission’s Practical Guide on the Quantification of Antitrust Damages. Raphaël has published numerous articles on the economics of competition, covering in particular horizontal and non-horizontal mergers, the impact of mergers on innovation, market definition, exclusionary conduct, excessive prices, standard essential patents, bargaining power and antitrust damages estimation.
Xavier Boutin is a founding partner of Positive Competition. He has 15 years of experience in economic and econometric modelling for the anal ysis of competition cases, business strategies and the evaluation of public policies.
“She has overseen the impressive growth of the firm”
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Aleksandra Boutin is a founding partner of Positive Competition. She has 15 years of experience in competition policy as an enforcer, consultant and academic.Aleksandra advises clients on a wide range of competition issues in the context of merger and antitrust proceedings in front of the European Commission and national competition authorities (including the CEE region). Her recent experience involves cartel overcharge analysis, vertical and horizontal mergers, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, state aid, information exchanges, and sectors such as high technology, internet plat forms, sports, media, manufacturing, oil, FMCG, insurance and Aleksandraagriculture. hasasolid enforcement back ground, having spent several years in DG Competition’s policy directorate. She co-drafted the 2010 EC’s Guidelines on Horizontal Agreements, including the new chapter on information exchanges, and the Block Exemption Regulation. She also participated in preparing the communi cation of the Commission on quantifying harm in antitrust damage actions. She was involved in many high-profile antitrust and merger cases in a wide range of sectors such as IT, energy, commodities, food, postal services, transport and banking. She is also the non-governmental adviser for Poland in the International Competition Network and leads a series of seminars on the role of economics in competition law at the Polish Competition Authority.
Dr. Raphaël De Coninck heads CRA’s Brussels office. Raphaël provides expert economic evidence and testimony in all competition matters, leading teams of economists at the forefront of merger, antitrust and damages analysis. He has worked on many of the landmark European competition cases of the last two decades, including over 80 mergers and 25 “Phase II” merger investigations, and over 50 abuse of dominance, cartel and damages cases.
Xavier advises clients in the context of merger, state aid and antitrust proceedings in front of the European Commission and national competition authorities. His most recent experiences involve vertical and horizontal mergers, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, information exchanges, cartel overcharge analysis in sectors such as high technology (including pharmaceutical and IT), internet platforms, online and offline retail, media, publishing, basic and manufacturing industries, FMCG, agriculture and finance. Xavier has also testified as an expert in commercial litigation.
Peers and clients say: “A real scholar of competition law”
“One of the very best on digital reforms in competition”
Raphaël holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and degrees in law and in economics from the University of Liège, Belgium.
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Peers and clients say: “I’ve instructed Raphael on various matters and he is ”Aexcellent”verygood and astute economist to work with”
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At Toulouse School of Economics, he is currently Head of the academic group Industrial Organization and co-Director of the Digital Center. He has been previously Deputy Director (2010 and 2011) and Scientific Director (2014 and 2015). He was Director of the research unit GREMAQ from 1997 to Bruno2004,
Peers and clients say: “He brings a very good, high-level view of the issues from his time in the European Commission” “He is impressive for the quality of his work and his wide range of experience”
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research fellow at MaCCI, CEPR, CESIfo and CMPO. He holds a chair at ANITI since 2019 and an Advanced ERC Grant (2015–2021) and he received the Bronze Medal of CNRS.
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ToulousedeaeconomicsengineeringToulousetwotheCourttopreparationabouthandfulconnectors,GDFcasesThermoEDF/Segebel,casesBASF/Solvay,BakerConocoPhillips,TeleThales/Finmeccanica/AAS/Telespazio,Kvaerner,SFR/2,IBM/Telelogic,OMV/MOL,StatoilHydro/Zimmer/Biomet,Halliburton/Hughes,Dow/Dupont,Bayer/Monsanto,E.ON/Innogy)andcomplexPhaseI(DassaultAviation/TSA/Thales,RWE/Essent,Danaher/GEhealthcare,ZF/Wabco,FisherScientific/Qiagen).Cyrilalsoparticipatedactivelyin15+antitrust(e.g.Intel,TexasInstruments/Qualcomm,foreclosure,E.ONforeclosure,SwedishinterLundbeck,Perindopril(Servier))andaofStateAidcases.Cyrilalsoparticipatedin10inspectionsasITforensic.CyrilalsoassistedtheCommissionintheofitsdefenseandintheparticipationseveraloralhearingsinfrontoftheGeneralofJusticeoftheEuropeanUnion,andhadopportunitytoaddresstheCourtdirectlyonoccasions.CyrilreceivedaPhDineconomicsfromSchoolofEconomicsandaMastersinfromISAE-ENSICA.HelecturedinattheUniversityofToulouseIandheldresearchfollowpositionatUniversitéCatholicLouvain(CORE)andanacademicpositionatBusinessSchool.rueGuimard9Brussels,1040Tel:+32(0)495796029Cyril.Hariton@positivecompetition.comwww.positivecompetition.com
Cyril Hariton, PhD, joined Positive Competition in January 2020 as a partner, after 15 years of experi ence at the Chief Economist Team of the European Competition’s Directorate-General for Competition.
He has a rich experience in the economic analysis and related management of complex competition cases, covering a wide range of industries, theories of harm and procedural situations.
During his tenure at DG Competition, Cyril participated actively in the review of 75+ merger cases, including 36 in-depth investigations (e.g. Omya/Huber, Sony/BMG, Metso/Aker
Bruno Jullien is Senior Researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Toulouse School of Economics. His current research focuses on industrial organization, competition policy and the economics of Internet and digital platforms. He is recognized as a leading academic researcher on the economics of two-sided markets. Bruno Jullien has published numerous articles in renowned scientific reviews such as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, RAND Journal of Economics.
Jullien advised the European Commission and several private companies on competition policy issues. He was member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of the European Commission from 2013 to 2016 and of the Steering Committee of Association of Competition Economics from 2009 to 2012. He is currently member of the executive committee
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He has been a post-doctoral fellow at New York University and taught at the University of Chicago and the Free University of Brussels (ULB).
Jullien received his undergraduate degree from Ecole Polytechnique in 1982 before attending ENSAE and EHESS. He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1988. Before joining Toulouse, he has held appointments at CEPREMAP, INSEE and Ecole Polytechnique.rueGuimard 9 Brussels, www.positivecompetition.combruno.jullien@tse-fr.eu1040
”An outstanding academic who has made significant contributions on enforcement policy”
I am a professor of economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the managing editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a Senior Academic Affiliate at Positive Competition. I am a specialist in industrial economics, the theory of contracts and organizations and have taught these topics at other universities (Cornell, Erasmus University, Northeastern University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). I have published in some of the best journals in economics ( American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, the Rand Journal of Economics).
Peers and clients say: “Very well known for his public policy expertise”
My main research analyzes the integration decisions or the choice of contracts of companies, both in perfectly competitive or oligopolistic envi ronments. These questions are especially rele vant when the transactions between the parties are subject to incompleteness (it is not possible to specify all the possible contingencies in a contract), or to situations of moral hazard or asymmetric information. My research has been funded, in particular, by the European Research Council and the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique.
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Nils has led teams on some of the most complex and large competition and commercial damages cases. His extensive experience includes expert testimony in the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal and High Court on behalf of Sainsbury’s against MasterCard and Visa in damages claims concerning interchange fees; expert evidence in the largest telecoms arbitration between T-Mobile and Vivendi; Polish Oil and Gas Company arbitration against Gazprom; numerous competition cases before the European Commission, national author ities, the Singapore CCS and disputes before arbi tration Panels and Courts. Nils has also led merger teams including Phase II (intensive) investigations before competition authorities.
Nils has been included in many recommended competition economists
“Nils has a strong track-record getting cases cleared”
Nils von Hinten-Reed is a founder and Managing Director of CEG Europe. Nils has 30 years of expe rience of providing economic and expert advice to Government, international organisations and the private sector. In the past 20 years, Nils has provided expert advice in a wide range of competi tion and commercial litigation cases before compe tition authorities in Europe and Asia-Pacific, court proceedings and international arbitrations.
Dr Lars Wiethaus joined CRA as a vice president in June 2016 and splits his time between the Munich and Brussels offices. Previously, Lars was a director and head of the Brussels office at E.CA Economics. He started his career with LECG (Evans/Padilla group) in London.
With 15 years of consulting experience, Lars advised on numerous complex transactions including Synthomer/Omnova, Karstadt/Galaria Kaufhof, Daimler/ BMW Car Sharing JV, Microsoft/LinkedIn Deutsche Börse/London Stock Exchange (third-party), Telefónica Deutschland/E-Plus, Immonet/Immowelt, Liberty/ Kabel BW, Swisscom/SRG/Ringier, Six/PayLife and Portugal Telecom/Sonaecom. He has worked on a large variety of article 102 cases and those involving vertical restraints, with a particular focus on network industries and platform markets. Lars has ample litigation experience, covering both defendants’ and claimants’ positions in claims concerning information exchanges, cartels and vertical restraints. He has assessed damages in multiple high-profile claims, including in the steel, smart card chips, automotive, trucks, beer, glass, telecoms, payment cards, and online distribution sector. He has advised on various regulatory matters in the field of telecommunications and energy. Lars is particularly experienced in cases concerning the European Commission, the German BKartA, the Austrian BWB and the Swiss WEKO. Lars has served as an expert at court.
”He understands the clients’ needs instantly”
Nils’ industry experience spans the aviation, banks, basic and specialty chemicals, construc tion, electricity and natural gas, finance, hospitality, industrial gases, insurance, maritime, media, phar maceuticals, ports, post, rail, telecommunications, transport and retailing sectors.
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Lars is a co-editor of the Journal of European Competition Law and Practice. He has published widely in economics and law journals including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Telecommunication Policy Review of Industrial Organization Information Economics and Policy Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, and Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb. Lars regularly speaks at conferences and competition law seminars and provides economics training for judges.
Peers and clients say: “I have recom mended Lars to clients on various occasions and never been disappointed” ”He comes highly recommended” ”Lars is an excellent economist”
Parallel to my academic activity, I served as a member of the European Advisory Group on Competition Policy of the European Commission and I served as an expert for the European Investment Bank and for the European Commission (risk shifting in public private partnerships; evolu tion of scientific publication markets in Europe; deregulation of the postal industry; damages). I have been a consultant on a variety of cases for private firms (joint ventures and mergers in tele coms; price discrimination; arbitration; finan cial platforms; contracts in supplier-producer relationships.)Alternateweb address: www.plegros.netrueGuimard
Before forming CEG, Nils was a Vice President in a UK based economics consultancy, a case-han dler at the European Commission’s DG Competition and an economic adviser at UK’s HM Treasury.
Peers and clients say: “He is very prag matic, quick, efficient, and to the point”
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Peers and clients say: “An exceptional “Bernardonegotiator”is a very skilled economist”
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Mr Macedo is active at IBRAC, Brazil’s main professional body for competition practitioners, and non-governmental adviser to the International Competition Network. He was also an adviser to the finance minister in
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Mr Macedo has extensive experience in the institutional environment and the requirements of regulatory authorities, besides lasting board-level collaborative relationships with key companies of the Brazilian economy and abroad. He has provided expert opinion and consulting services to many investigations concerning anticompetitive prac tices, and took part in the most complex Brazilian merger cases to date.
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Silvia holds a PhD degree in economics from São Paulo School of Economics – Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). Her thesis concerned competition policy, analysing empirically the concept of counter vailing power and the Brazilian healthcare sector. The research was granted first prize in the award sponsored by the secretariat for economic moni toring of the Ministry of Finance. In the academic year 2011–2012, Silvia was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University (NY), where she researched antitrust and regulatory matters of the healthcare sector and served as a visiting professor for the graduate course on the history of the Brazilian economy.
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Bernardo Gouthier Macedo (PhD in economics, University of Campinas) is a founding partner of LCA, the largest Brazilian economic consul tancy. Established in 1995, LCA has four prac tices (competition economics, macroeconomics, market intelligence, and investment and corporate finance), and a team of 100 dedicated economists.
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“Ms Almeida is an excellent consultant”
Silvia is currently LCA’s director in competition economics, with expertise in sectoral economics, and extensive experience in public policy, regu lation, commercial defence and the require ments of antitrust authorities. Among the most recent high-profile Brazilian merger cases, Sílvia was involved in the economic team that advised the parts towards the settlement reached in ArcelorMittal/Votorantim (steel), Bayer/Monsanto (chemical and seeds), JV SBT/Record/RedeTV (TV broadcast), CSN/Usiminas (steel), Sanofi-Aventis/ Medley (pharmaceuticals), Pão de Açucar/Casas Bahia/Ponto Frio (durable goods retail), DASA/MD1 (healthcare), Camargo Corrêa/Cimpor (cement) and Oxiteno/American Chemical. The last two cases have been nominated at the third and fourth GCR annual awards, for the Merger Control Matter of the Year (Americas). In 2015, at the fifth awards ceremony, LCA’s team won an award for the Anhanguera/Kroton merger (education). LCA was also engaged in the Google Shopping probe, shortlisted at Behavioural Matter-Americas in the 2020 edition of the GCR’s Awards. More recently, Silvia is engaged in different digital market cases, such as OLX/Zap acquisition and food exclusionary practice investigation. She has also been assessing different merger cases in the healthcare sector, such as Hapvida/Intermédica and DASA’s acquisitions.
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Tel: +55 11 3879 silvia.almeida@lcaconsultores.com.br3700www.lcaconsultores.com.br
“She is diligent and knowledgeable”
Bernardo Gouthier Macedo LCA Consultores
Mr Macedo heads LCA’s competition economics practice, a national leader covering anti trust, regulation, trade defence, private litigation, arbitration, tax, financial economics, among others. The practice has a team of 30 highly qualified and dedicated economists.
Mr Macedo and his team at LCA figure at GCR’s 24 Economics and have been very active in multi jurisdictional deals and global probes. LCA’s team has advised Google successfully in securing the closing of the search engine probe, after seven years. As for mergers, LCA led the Brazilian team advising Disney in its acquisition of Fox – which won 2020’s GCRE Merger of the Year, Americas Award. Indeed, several cases in which LCA has led economic support have been shortlisted to GCR Awards, LCA being the only non US/Europe firm to have three leading economists nominated at WWL.
Peers and clients say: “Silvia is the rising star of competition practice in her generation”
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Silvia is a professor of economics at FGV’s MBA, she was also professor of microeconomics and industrial organisation at São Paulo School of Economics – Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) and at Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas (FIPE). Sílvia is the officer at the Brazilian Institute of Competition, Consumer and International Trade Studies (IBRAC), in charge of digital markets. From 2016-19 she was in charge of economic issues at the same
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Liam is currently instructed as expert on a large number of significant antitrust damages cases and has acted as expert economist before the UK High Court and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) on many antitrust damages matters including NHS & Ors v Reckitt Benckiser ; WM Newson & Ors v IMI plc and Boliden AB; Peugeot Citroen Automobiles UK Ltd & Ors v Pilkington Group Ltd & Ors; BMW AG v MOL, K-line & Ors; Hilding Anders International AB & Ors v Vita Cellular Foams (UK) Ltd & Ors; and Graiseley Properties Ltd & Ors v Barclays Bank plc (the Libor ‘test case’). He has also acted on successful regulatory appeals at the CAT for BSkyB in BSkyB & Ors v Ofcom (pay-TV appeal) and for Lloyds Banking Group in Barclays Bank plc & Ors v Competition Commission
In addition, he has advised clients on a variety of regulatory issues across a range of industries, such as telecommunications and energy, and in matters relating to state aid. He has extensive expe rience in providing competition compliance risk assessment and training. He also has experience in providing expert advice on competition-related commercial litigation in Cyprus.
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Prior to founding Trojan Economics, he has served as an economic adviser to the Competition Authority in PanayiotisCyprus.holds a PhD in economics from the University of East Anglia, an MA in economics for Competition Law from King’s College London, an MSc in economics from the University College London and a BSc in economics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Liam has represented numerous clients before the European Commission and national competi tion authorities, regulators and courts on the full range of competition issues, in particular in the financial services, telecoms, media, technology and automotive sectors.
Peers and clients say: “Gustavo has huge experience on economic data handling and “Asimulations”well-known economist in competition and tax matters”
He has published extensively on competition policy in Cyprus and the European Union and is a co-author of the book “Competition Policy in Cyprus: 1989-2009”, which was published by Nomiki Vivliothiki (in Greek). He is also an author at Concurrences and a case report contributor to Oxford Competition Law
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Liam Colley Cornerstone Research
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Liam has wide experience estimating damages in both a competition and a commercial litigation context (including class action) and has worked on a significant number of both stand-alone and follow-on actions in abuse of dominance cases. Other cartel damages matters include FX, aluminium warehousing, trucks, LCD, air cargo, RoRo, bearings, occupant safety systems, auto motive lighting, HVAC, wire harnesses, starters and alternators, smart card chips, construction, recruitment and flat glass.
“He delivers results with professionalism, integrity and efficiency”
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Gustavo’s publications include: “Methods of measuring the compensation of private actions in cases of cartel” in Revista do IBRAC (vol 20, ano 18, 2011); “Can unlawful tax practices affect competi tion?” in Ribas, G. (org) Conducts Enforcement in Brazil: Frequently Asked Question (IBRAC, 2018); “Os modelos de equilíbrio geral computável (EGC) na simu lação de impacto de políticas comerciais” in Nasser, R. (org) Revista de Direito do Comércio Internacional (n. 3, 2020).
At LCA, Gustavo Madi has provided tech nical opinions for antitrust investigations of M&A deals and business strategies in several sectors (carbonated drinks, orange juice, iron ore, indus trial gas, food, steel, pulp and paper, bank, auto parts, etc); and market intelligence and demand forecasting for several sectors (beverages, food, appliances, personal care, etc). Among the most recent high-profile Brazilian merger cases, Gustavo Madi was on the team advising parties towards a settlement in Nestlé/Garoto (food industry); Camargo Corrêa/Cimpor (cement); BrasilFoods BRF (processed foods); DASA/MD1 (labs); Iochpe/Maxxion (autoparts sector); Kroton/Anhanguera (education sector) (named Merger Control Matter of the Year: Americas at GCR’s 5th Annual Awards in 2015); Bradesco/ HSBC and Itau/Citibank (bank sector).
Panayiotis Agisilaou is the founder and managing director of Trojan Economics. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus.
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Gustavo Madi is a director in competition economics with a master’s degree in economic theory from Unicamp (2004). He has more than 15 years of experience in competition studies, trade defence, tax, market intelligence and demand forecasting. He was lecturer in the continuing education programme at GVLaw (FGV), and coor dinator of the microeconomics applied to antitrust law programme at the Institute for Competition, Consumer and International Trade Studies (IBRAC) and Mackenzie Presbyterian University.
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Peers and clients say: “He is extremely knowledgeable and able to explain things very simply and clearly”
“Panayiotis is a diligent and dedicated economist”
Liam is global co-head of economics consulting at AlixPartners, and has over 25 years’ experience in economics consulting, specialising in competi tion, and competition litigation. Liam was described in Global Competition Review as having “earned an excellent reputation among his peers and clients”, and in Who’s Who Legal as “praised for the unas sailable quality of his work” and for “his impressive testimony in competition cases”.
He has extensive consulting experience in advising companies in all fields of competition economics, with particular expertise in the appli cation of quantitative techniques to antitrust and merger issues. He has advised on competition matters and given expert evidence on almost all high-profile antitrust and merger cases covering a wide range of sectors before the Competition Authority in Cyprus. He has also testified as an expert witness in court and arbitration proceedings involving competition issues in Cyprus.
James Harvey is a co-founder and Director of Economic Insight, with 20 years of experience.
James is an editor of the European Competition Law Review and is as an adviser to both the Bar Standards Board and IPReg. James is an active contributor to journals and conferences on compe tition and regulatory economics and policy. He undertakes assignments on a pro-bono basis for several organisations, including for a cancer charity and for single parents affected by government welfare policy. James has an MSc in Economics (with distinction) from the University of York and a BSc in Economics from Cardiff
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Liam holds an MSc in economics (with distinction) from Birkbeck College London, an MA in EC competition law (with merit) from King’s College London, and a BA in economics from the University of Sussex. Liam is an active member of the competition law forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and he has written and spoken widely on competition and liti gation
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Peers and clients say: “James is a highly skilled litigation expert”
In addition, James has played a major role in establishing Economic Insight’s leading Dispute Resolution practice, which focuses on disputes arising from breaches of competition law. He has given written and oral evidence before the UK High Court and the Competition Appeals Tribunal.
”He is an an excellent economist who is a pleasure to work with, and has a skill for distilling complex economic concepts into understandable form”
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“James offers tremendous clarity in written and spoken communication and strategic vision”
Mr Harman has given evidence before the UK High Court; AAA, PCA, ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and SCC tribunals; the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal; the UK Competition Commission; the UK Competition and Markets Authority; the Competition Tribunal in South Africa; the Competition Commission in South Africa; the High Court in South Africa; Ofcom; the CAA, a port case heard under the provisions of the UK Harbours Act; the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Mr Harman has been involved in mediation procedures.
Peers and clients say: “His grasp of competition economics is outstanding” ”He is excellent at managing every step of the process”
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Mr Harman’s experience has included the production of independent expert reports for submission to government departments, courts, tax authorities, and competition and regulatory bodies, and inclusion in international corporate transaction agreements.
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James specialises in the use of economics and quantitative techniques to help clients involved in competition and regulatory matters. His work covers competition-related litigation cases (including collective and class actions), price control appeals and redeterminations, and non-contentious matters, including merger inves tigations. He provides advice to regulators and companies on the economics issues associated with liberalising markets.
Peers and clients say: “Greg is highly expe rienced and very established in the compe tition scene”
Liam has advised clients on a wide range of market inquiries including retail banking, cash savings, credit information, payment protection insurance, motor insurance, audit, new cars and buses, and has worked on a significant number of merger cases at both the national and EC level, in particular on cases involving the deployment of efficiency and failing firm evidence.
”Greg is a go-to person”
Mr Harman is a leading expert active in commercial arbitration worldwide, and has been ranked in WWL Arbitration from 2012 to 2020. He is also recommended by the directory as an expert in competition economics, litigation, and quantum of damages.
Greg Harman is a managing director and leads BRG’s EMEA disputes practice. During his 28 years in consultancy, he has undertaken a wide range of assignments in the UK and internationally. He is an expert in the areas of valuation, dispute consulting, pricing, competition finance and economic regu lation. He has significant experience working on cases in telecommunications, media, energy, post, water and transport.
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”He is very well known and possesses an excellent reputation for economics”
Derek is an economist with over 25 years’ expe rience in competition and regulatory matters. He has testified before the High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) and other courts in many leading competition matters concerning abuse of dominance, quantification of anti-trust damages and the competitive effects of horizontal and verticalAmongagreements.therecent high-profile competition litigation matters he has acted on include the interchange fee litigation before the High Court on behalf of Visa Inc., the hearings regarding Justin Guttman’s application for a Collective Proceedings Order in rail boundary fares, the bearings cartel damages litigation before the CAT on behalf of Peugeot, and an abuse of dominance matter in the rail sector.Derek was recently commended in Global Competition Review’s Who’s Who Legal Competition as “an extremely assured and able expert with excellent judgement”, who “excels at testifying in major competition litigation” and as “well versed in providing expert counsel on abuse of dominance and market investigation proceedings”.
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Mat started his career as an economist at the UK Office of Fair Trading, and until March 2013 was chief economist at Ashurst LLP. Mat has a BA degree in accounting and economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, and an MSc in economics from Queen Mary College, University of London.Mathas written and spoken widely on compe tition matters. This includes a series of articles on the economics of EU and UK merger control in ICLG’s Comparative Legal Guide to International Merger Control for many years (covering matters such as Measuring unilateral price increases in the UK and EU due to mergers in differentiated markets, The trend towards increasing intervention in UK merger control, Economic evidence in retailer mergers after Sainsbury’s/Asda: Death by GUPPI, and the assessment of the competitive effects of mergers on innovation following the European Commission’s Dow/DuPont decision), a chapter in Global Legal Insight’s publication Merger Control 2020 on Assessing the loss of potential and dynamic competition of UK and EC merger control: predic tion is difficult especially if it’s about the future, covid-19 and avoiding the failure of the failing firm defence, The risk of a Phase II reference in UK merger control: retrospect and prospect: Lessons and Future Direction, and co-authoring the leading book on UK merger control (Parr, Finbow and Hughes, with the third edition being published in November 2016). He has also written and spoken about an economist’s take on private antitrust liti gation outside the US, the pitfalls of applying AI to Big Data, regulatory oversight of digital markets and whether a new approach is required, BritNed
Mat Hughes is a managing director in AlixPartners’ European competition practice, which is part of a broader litigation practice. He has over 30 years of experience as an antitrust economist, and in dealing with European and UK competition author ities and specialist utility regulators in relation to all aspects of competition law. Who’s Who Legal 2021 ranks Mat as a Global Competition Economist Thought Leader and describes him as “incredibly attentive and bright” and that its sources say that “he knows how to zero in effectively on what will make a difference in a case”.
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“He has the ability to explain clearly and simply complex issues of regulatory economics”
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He has a Master of Science (with distinction) in economics from the London School of Economics.
Peers and clients say: “Derek is meticulous and incredibly easy to work with” “He is an extremely assured and able expert, with excellent judgement”
Mat also has substantial experience in acting in relation to a number of competition damages cases, including for four international car/truck companies, in relation to various car and truck parts, for various claimants in relation to the polyurethane foam cartel, the envelopes cartel, a pharmaceutical “pay-for-delay” case, a collec tive claim against Comparethemarket.com, and a patent licensing dispute.
Mat has acted for clients before the Competition and Market Authority (CMA)/ Competition Commission (CC) on more than 30 cases covering detailed Phase II merger and market investigations, as well as on a very large number of first phase mergers. For example, Mat acted before the CMA in relation to its market inves tigations relating to personal current accounts and SME banking, acted before the CMA in rela tion to its private motor insurance investigation, and in relation to the CC’s Groceries investiga tion and in the subsequent remittal. As regards mergers, Mat acted on Hunter Douglas/247 (CMA) JD Sports/Footasylum (CMA), Inspired/ Novamatic (CMA), Unite/Liberty (CMA), JD Sports/ Go Outdoors (CMA), Ashtead/Lion (CMA), Ballyclare/ LHD (CMA), Imerys/Goovean (CC), Kemira/ GrowHow (CC), Billerud/Kinnervik (DG Comp), P&O/ Stena (CC), Sky/ITV (CC), Arla/Milk Link (DG Comp), Ahlens/NK (Sweden second stage) and Edmundson Electrical/Electric Center (OFT)
Mat has also advised widely on the application on the economics of regulation and the interface between regulation, competition and consumers’ interests. This includes acting for British Gas of the first ever customer-led appeal of a network price control decision in the UK, a judicial review appli cation for Speed Medical, and for various utilities.
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Matt has worked on several patent and copy right cases in the English High Court. These include: representing HTC regarding competi tion issues on Philips v HTC, a standard-essential patents/FRAND case; representing a major inter national handset manufacturer on competition issues in another SEP/FRAND case; and acting as a testifying expert for Sports Information Services Ltd on a copyright infringement case related to horse racing betting information.
Matt has published articles on industrial organisation in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Competition Law & Economics and Telecommunications Policy. He holds an MSc in economics (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and an MPhys in physics (with first class) from the University of Oxford.
He has a strong track record leading the economic advice on mergers and joint ventures. This has included numerous Phase II mergers such as representing Hunter Douglas on its purchase of online blinds retailer 247 blinds, Bauer Media on the purchase of local radio stations, Telia on the purchase of Bonnier Broadcasting, Deutsche Telekom and Orange on the sale of EE to BT and a major third party in Hutchison 3G UK/Telefónica UK
6 New Street Square London, EC4A 3BF Tel: +44 20 7098 mhunt@alixpartners.com7443www.alixpartners.com
Peers and clients say: “Mat is a very bright economist who gets to the point” “Mat is enthusiastic and easy to work with” “He has encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject matter”
v ABB: Economic and Legal Lesson from the first UK cartel damages cases, the importance and application of economic evidence in stand-alone private actions in the UK courts, a practical guide to the assessment of damages under UK and EC competition law, the certification of claims by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal as eligible for inclusion in collective proceedings, the assess ment of unilateral public price announcements, and (following the European Court of Justice’s judgment in Intel and the Commission’s Qualcomm decision) Loyalty rebates – all change or business as usual.
Matt Hunt is the EMEA head of AlixPartners’ economics consulting practice and has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on complex competition, regulatory and commercial matters that often require testimony in court. He has served as an expert in cases in the English High Court, Irish High Court, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, and Hong Kong courts and he regularly submits expert reports to regulatory authorities and compe titionMattauthorities.hasled teams of economists defending clients in major abuse of dominance and anticom petitive agreements cases including for a ferry operator regarding a capacity sharing agreement, a major international beverage firm (multiproduct rebates), Slovak Telekom (margin squeeze and refusal to supply) and Telefónica UK (alleged exces sive pricing). He has also advised many companies on bringing standalone competition complaints to authorities or the courts, or in defending actions in court, as well as working on numerous follow-on damages cases related to both abuse of dominance and anticompetitive agreements.
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Matt has worked in several jurisdictions outside Europe, including leading the advice to OFCA, the Hong Kong Communications Authority, on several cases that included providing expert evidence for an appeal of a decision regarding alleged excessive pricing. He has also advised a major DRAM supplier related to an antitrust investigation by the SAMR, the Chinese antitrust authority.
Peers and clients say: “Matt is very effective at keeping the bigger picture in mind” ”He knows when to muster his substantial network to provide additional input and bolster the already exceptional analysis”
Matt Hunt AlixPartners UK LLP
In the telecoms sector, he has extensive expertise and knowledge of regulatory issues and supports clients in appeals of regulatory decisions. For example, Matt was a testifying expert for BT, opining on market definition issues in relation to business connectivity products, was the joint expert for all four UK mobile operators regarding a dispute at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal over inter connection charges and an expert for eir in the Irish High Court regarding an appeal of a ComReg deci sion on universal service.
He has also written and spoken about an economist’s take on private antitrust litigation outside the US, the pitfalls of applying AI to Big Data, regulatory oversight of digital markets and whether a new approach is required, BritNed v ABB: Economic and Legal Lesson from the first UK cartel damages cases, the importance and application of economic evidence in stand-alone private actions in the UK courts from 2010 to 2014, a practical guide to the assessment of damages under UK and EC competition law, the certification of claims by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal as eligible for inclusion in collective proceedings, the assess ment of unilateral public price announcements, and (following the European Court of Justice’s judgment in Intel and the Commission’s Qualcomm decision) “Loyalty rebates – all change or business as usual”.
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6 New Street Square London, EC4A 3BF Tel: +44 20 7098 mhughes@alixpartners.com7420www.alixpartners.com
Sam Williams is a director and co-founder of Economic Insight, with almost two decades of expe rience of advising on competition law and regula tory matters. He was, notably, the expert economics witness in relation to the case of Socrates Training Limited v The Law Society, the first competition liti gation case to be heard under the CAT’s fast track process. During his career, he has advised clients on market investigations; abuses of dominance (predation, margin squeeze, refusal to supply) and cartel cases, including the estimation of damages. He has also led high-profile merger control work. Sam has particular expertise in advising on competition matters in regulated industries, such as water, telecoms and energy. He also sits on the advisory pool of experts at the Bar Standards Board; and is on the CMA’s panel of external experts in relation to price control
Grant leads NERA’s competition team in the UK and is Head of NERA’s office of 70 professionals in London.
Grant regularly presents economic evidence in competition hearings and has been the named expert in several high-profile cases before the Commercial Courts and the International Trade Commission. For example, he was an expert for the UK Government in the multinational subsidy and tariff dispute between Boeing and Bombardier in 2018.
Gildas de Muizon Deloitte
Gildas de Muizon holds a Master’s degree in science & executive engineering from Mines ParisTech and a PhD in economics from the University of Paris X.
Peers and clients say: “Grant is an impres sive and thorough operator”
Dr. Gildas de Muizon is a partner at Deloitte. He leads the Analytics, Value & Asset Advisory plat form, which includes Forensic & Dispute Services, Economic Advisory, Valuation & Modeling and Real Estate Advisory. Prior to joining Deloitte in 2016, he was the managing partner of Microeconomix.
“He is extremely knowledgeable on CMA and FCA investigations”
Gildas de Muizon is an expert in antitrust economics. He provides economic evidence and testimony in all competition matters (mergers, abuse of dominance, horizontal and vertical agree ments, state aid, etc.).
Sam Williams Economic Insight Ltd
“He is a very good economist with a broad practice”
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Grant holds four degrees in economics from the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He was previ ously a university lecturer inMarbleeconomics.Arch House 66 Seymour Street London, W1H 5BT Tel: +44 20 7659 grant.saggers@nera.com8802www.nera.com
Tour Majunga - 6, place de la Pyramide Paris La Défense, 92908 Tel: +33 1 55 61 58 gdemuizon@deloitte.fr80www.deloitte.fr
”A standout professional operating at a very high level”
Grant has significant expertise in economic prof itability analysis, assessing the fairness of pricing, and the econometric analysis of competitive forces and damages.Granthas worked on a wide range of issues and sectors in over eighty assignments, including: leading top companies through more than a dozen market studies and market investigations, such as: Aggregates/Cement Private Healthcare Credit Cards Statutory Audit, Retail Banking, Funerals, Children’s Social Care, and Investment Consulting (and Asset Management); advising on some of the largest State Aid cases in Europe, including: the UK’s Asset Protection Scheme during the financial crisis, the recapitalisation of the Royal Mail Group, and the Paks II nuclear plant investment; analysing abuse of dominance issues in glass, industrial products, medical devices, mobile handset technology, airline travel agents, steel, polymers, electricity connections, and bank charges; and helping parties navigate the international merger clearances of multi-billiondollarIndeals.2015,positive praise from a range of corporate clients led the UK’s consulting industry body to recog nise Grant as the Strategy Consultant of the Year for his work applying economics to regulatory strategy.
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He is more particularly specialized in the anti trust aspects of M&A clearance. He is regularly involved in some of the largest transactions on the market and has represented numerous clients before the European Commission and national competition authorities. In 2021, among others, he assisted Beaumanoir in the acquisition of Caroll, Veolia in the acquisition of Suez, Derichebourg in the acquisition of Ecore as well as Newrest in the acquisition of Sodexo Maroc. He has extensive experience of complex cases and “Phase II” merger investigations requiring the development of inno vativeGildasapproaches. deMuizon has also wide experience estimating damages in both a competition and a commercial litigation context. He has worked on significant follow-on actions in cartel as well as abuse of dominant position cases. He regularly testifies before French courts. Since 2015, he has been listed as a court-appointed expert (“expert judiciaire”) by the Paris Court of Appeal.
Peers and clients say: “One of the very best in France”
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Broad Street London, EC2N 1AR Tel: 0207 100 37 sam.williams@economic-insight.com46www.economic-insight.com
Peers and clients say: “A quite impressive ”Inexpert”myview he’s better than anyone else in the market, bar none”
Grant Saggers NERA Economic Consulting
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Uli Brunner AlixPartners GmbH
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”His in-depth knowledge and experience in the field is impressive”
Hans W Friederiszick is a director and one of the founders of E.CA Economics. Dr Friederiszick has more than 20 years of experience in advising clients in all fields of competition economics (cartels, merger cases, abuse of a dominant position and state aid cases) and has led teams of economists on international antitrust investigations. He was part of the first chief economist team of DG COMP.
While Uli has a particular sector focus on energy- and carbon markets, his experience in cartel cases ranges across the automotive industry over chemical- and process industries down to the steel production and battery markets.
Peers and clients say: “Hans Friederiszick is an exceptional competition economist”
Niels Frank
Uli Brunner is a professional economist who leads the Economics Consulting Practice of AlixPartners in Germany.Heapplies economic analysis to support companies in critical situations. His analysis and expert reports are typically submitted to arbitrators and counterparties in disputes and litigation, to competition authorities in antitrust investigations and to regulatory bodies in matters of economic regulation.Ulihas 21 years of experience in advising companies on economics matters, with a focus on competition economics, cartel damage cases and commercial disputes. He has a wide range of expe rience in serving as expert witness in commercial arbitrations and cartel litigation.
His major engagements in recent years include: representing Remondis, the leading German recycling company, in its attempted take over of Dual System Deutschland; supporting a buyer in the purchase of REAL stores from Metro AG; winning a framework contract on impact assessments of various state aid regimes (for the EU Commission); the takeover of some assets of Unitymedia by Vodafone; the Air Berlin/TUI joint venture, EU Phase I; the Holcim/Cemex West trans action, EU Phase II; the Holcim/Lafarge transac tion, EU Phase I (merger); acting as an economic expert in the air cargo cartel case, German Court proceedings for a group of international freight forwarders (private litigation); acting as an economic expert in the synthetic rubber cartel case, UK Court proceedings for a group of European tyre manufacturers (private litigation); and the Visa/ MasterCard litigation regarding interchange fees, UK Court proceeding for a group of retailers (private litigation).Hans W Friederiszick is a research fellow at ESMT Berlin. His recent publications address regional state aid (in Werner/Verouden: EU State Aid Control. Law and Economics), the economic analysis in European competition law (NOMOS Kommentar Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht) and cartel liti gation activity (Journal of Antitrust Enforcement Schlossplatz). 1 Berlin, 10178
Niels Frank is a partner at Lademann & Associates. He studied economics with a focus on industrial organisation at the University of Hamburg and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. Niels has more than 10 years of experience working on numerous antitrust matters involving the assess ment of cartel damages (inter alia, cement, car glass, TV advertising, sugar), the effects of hori zontal and non-horizontal mergers (third party in Telefónica/E-Plus) as well as abuse of dominance cases concerning conditional rebates, bundling and access to essential facilities. His industry expe rience includes fast moving consumer goods, TV-advertising, retailing, construction materials, business insurance, paper wholesale, airport infrastructure, telecommunication and services related to the postal sector. Recently, Niels led the L&A team that was jointly retained as neutral economic experts by suppliers and buyers in the German market for fire engines to assess cartel damages and to propose a settlement solution. This project proved a novel and efficient alternative to damage litigation in court. Niels has published papers in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Journal of European Competition Law and Practice and Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb. Since 2007 Niels has lectured on competition economics and competition policy at the University of Bayreuth.
Tel: +49 30 21231 friederiszick@e-ca.com7010www.e-ca.com
Peers and clients say: “Uli is very prag matic and has excellent analysis skills” “He has broad experience across various “Heindustries”isvery practical and provides quick hands-on advice”
Sendlinger Str 12 Munich, 80331
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An der Alster 63 Hamburg, 20099 Tel: +49 40 6455 frank@lademann-associates.com7790www.lademann-associates.com
”Hans is an immensely experienced economist”
Peers and clients say: “He has a good understanding of theory and empirics” “He is very client-focused and always able to provide high quality work products quickly” “Niels is a great and very knowledgeable economist”
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Hans W Friederiszick E.CA Economics
Uli holds a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Bonn.
Simone Kohnz E.CA Economics
“She is a practical and clear-thinking expert”
In 1986, he founded the first consulting company specialised in competition economics in accordance with German antitrust law; since 1998, this has extended even further, to EU cartel law. Professor Lademann has advised merger cases, cartel and damage claim cases, selective distri bution systems and abuse of dominance cases. He gave strategic advice in pre or post-merger projects, as well as in distribution matters (such as in the automotive industry) and the realignment of dealer networks or company pricing strategies. Mr Lademann has advised the EU Commission (DG Comp/BER 1400/2002), the economic committee (in connection with the sixth amendment of the German cartel law), the nutrition committee of the German parliament and – on more than one occa sion – the German Monopoly Commission. He has also served as an expert in litigations.
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An der Alster 63 Hamburg, 20099 Tel: +49 40 64 55 lademann@lademann-associates.com7790www.lademann-associates.com
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Rainer P Lademann
Professor Lademann is also experienced in such sectors as automotives, energy, cement, lifts and escalators, railroad tracks, truck market, foodstuffs such as coffee, flour, sweets and sugar, wholesaling and retailing with fast-moving consumer goods, paper, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), mail order services, transportation and traffic, infrastructure branches and insurance. Within his client base are leading companies such as AMG, Audi, AXA, Coty, Daimler, Deutsche Post, Dyckerhoff, Edeka, Fiat, HeidelbergCement, Henkel, Gothaer, HUK Coburg, Iveco, Lafarge, MAN, Markant Group, Metro Group, Migros, Otis, Rosenbauer, RTL II, Spar Austria, ThyssenKrupp, Tip (General Electric), Volkswagen, VNG-Ontras and Zentis.
Schlossplatz 1 Berlin, 10178
As an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen he has published more than 80 arti cles and books, including seven monographs and numerous essays dealing with different topics of antitrust law, and strategic and competition issues in the retail sector.
Dr Simone Kohnz is a director at E.CA Economics.
She has more than 15 years’ experience in economic consulting advising clients from a wide range of industries, in all fields of competi tion policy and across a number of jurisdictions including Germany, the European Union, the UK, Spain and Austria. In recent years, Simone special ised in the quantification of damages in private liti gation cases. She has advised clients and drafted expert witness reports for European, German and Austrian cartel and information exchange cases in a variety of industries including trucks, sugar, timber, banking cards, pumpers and turntable ladders, district heating, fast-moving consumer goods and de-icing salt. Since 2019, Simone has served as a testifying expert in front of Spanish courts in numerous private damage litigation cases. Simone also has considerable experience in mergers. She worked on a number of merger feasibility studies in the fast-moving consumer goods industry and in asphalt plants. She also provided assistance in the mergers of Knorr/Bremse, H+H/Xella and Strabag/ Lafarge. Furthermore, Simone has worked on a number of regulatory cases in telecommunication, transport and pharmaceuticals.
“Simone is organised, efficient and hard working”
Professor Dr Rainer P Lademann, born in Bremen 1953, studied business economics at the University of Göttingen after being apprenticed to the Siemens AG. At the University of Göttingen he also obtained a PhD for his dissertation on buyer power in the grocery retailing sector.
Peers and clients say: “Rainer is a giant of the field” “He is always pragmatic, while contributing high-quality work at the same time”
Peers and clients say: “Simone is a very great economist”
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Recent Phase I and II EU merger cases include ZF/Wabco, RHI/ Magnesita, Heidelberg Cement/ Italcementi and Telefónica/E-Plus. He has advised a number of European national governments and state aid recipients.
Rainer Nitsche
E.CA Economics
Tel: +49 30 21231 nitsche@e-ca.com7020www.e-ca.com
Peers and clients say: “Rainer is always a top ”Hechoice”consistently performs well on merger cases”
Fabian is a competition economist and heads the Competition Economists Group’s Econometrics and Data Analytics team. He has extensive experience in a wide range of quantitative techniques, with a focus on the econometric estimation of cartel damages. He also advises national and interna tional clients on other areas of competition policy, including antitrust, mergers, economic and finan cial regulation.Duringhis career, Fabian has advised numerous clients across a range of sectors including building materials, drug store prod ucts, food retail, industrial gases, oilfield services, pesticides, financial services, steel, automotive and transportation. These include multinational corporations as well as various small and medium sized companies that are leaders in their respec tive fields.Besides various ongoing cartel damages proceedings before German Courts in which claimants and defendants continue to rely on his expertise, he currently applies his econometric knowledge to the estimation of the harm suffered by the clients of the Europe-wide trucks cartel before the Competition Appeals Tribunal. He has recently provided evidence to German courts that suggests that clients of the German drugstore products cartel were harmed by the unlawful infor mationFabianexchange.provided expert advice to a defendant in a high profile cartel proceeding in the power cables industry. He represents the alleged ringleader, a major construction company, in Austria’s larg est-ever cartel probe before the Kartellgericht. His recent work on mergers includes advice provided to METRO in its proposed sale of the German food retailer Real before the Federal Cartel Office.
Fabian is native in German, fluent in English and has a good working knowledge of Dutch and Spanish.
Berliner Allee 26, 1st Floor Düsseldorf, 40212 Tel: +49 211 1760 frinnen@ceg-europe.com9163www.ceg-global.com
Fabian Rinnen CEG
”He is particularly experienced in the area of cartel damage claims”
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Peers and clients say: “Fabian is strong in statistics and data management”
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Dr Rainer Nitsche is a director at E.CA Economics and an expert in providing economic advice in competition and litigation cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities in Germany, Austria, the UK and the Netherlands. He has more than 25 years of experi ence supporting clients in all fields of competition policy enforcement, including cartel and abuse of dominant position cases and merger control (Phase I and Phase II investigations). In addition, he has advised on a variety of regulation issues in network industries (transport, telecommunications, postal services and electricity) and has published widely in the field of competition economics. Rainer Nitsche is a research fellow at ESMT Berlin, where he teaches courses on digital platform strategy.Be sides renowned law firms, his clients have also included the European Commission and national competition authorities. Rainer Nitsche has exten sive experience as a testifying expert. He has acted as a court expert in more than 10 merger and anti trust proceedings. He has served as an economic expert in numerous cartel cases for courts, plain tiffs and defendants from a broad range of indus tries including the trucks cartel, the elevator cartel, the rail cartel, the cold cut meat cartel, the auto motive bearings cartel, the sugar cartel, the district heating tube cartel, the gas cartel, the pumpers and turntable ladder cartel, the automotive glass cartel, the LPG cartel and the de-icing salt cartel, as well as cartels in several FMCG industries, grocery retail, waste industries and plant construction.
In his recent research, Fabian has investigated the intersection of legal and economic concepts when quantifying cartel damages, both in terms of econometric techniques, the ad hoc estimation by a judge and empirical evidence on historical over charges of national and international cartels. Apart from his published articles that are frequently cited in court judgements, Fabian shares his insights in the form of blog posts, podcasts and presentations to peers and clients that cover a broad range of competition topics.
Schlossplatz 1 Berlin, 10178
Fabian has repeatedly been named in Who’s Who Legal: Competition, Who’s Who Legal: Consulting Experts and Expert Guides: Competition and Antitrust among Germany’s most highly regarded competition economists. He is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, the German Competition Litigation Forum and the German Arbitration Institute.
Fabian holds a Master’s degree in Economic Analysis from the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, a Masters in Philosophy with distinction in Economic and Financial Research with a speciali sation in Econometrics and a Bachelor of Science in Econometrics and Operations Research from Maastricht University.
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In his commercial litigation work, Fred has acted for both plaintiffs and defendants in over 20 cartel damages cases. He has broad sectoral experience, with specific expertise in the automo tive, consumer goods, financial services, retail, telecommunications and transportation sectors. Case examples including bonds, drugstore prod ucts, pesticides, bathroom fittings, roll-on/roll-off shipping, trucks, German payment cards, sugar, confectionery, polyurethane foam and various car parts. Clients include household names, major corporations but also small and medium-sized businesses.Besides his litigation work, Fred frequently provides due diligence assessments of interna tional litigation funding opportunities for funders, assessing the merits of a claim and sensechecking the initial assessments of lawyers and other experts. He is currently providing expert testi mony in support of several agri-businesses in their claim for damages arising from the German pesti cides cartel. Fred also coordinates CEG’s work in support of the Veolia Suez and Wolseley Claimants against the trucks manufacturers in front of the Competition Appeals Tribunal.
Carlos Pascual joined KPMG with more than 17 years of experience in the public sector. Since 2014, he has led the KPMG economics team in Madrid. With teams of competition economists in the UK, France, Spain and Belgium, KPMG Economics is one of Europe’s leading economics consulting firms.Carlos’s team in Madrid advises a large number of clients on all aspects of competition issues, whether under an auto-evaluation perspec tive or within all types of proceedings before the regulators and the courts.
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They have worked in many of the latest cartel and anticompetitive investigations carried out by the Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC): swap derivatives, power cables, IT consultancy, express mail, AIO products, rail infrastructures, tobacco products, private security services, modular constructions, waste management, building construction, media agencies and school catering or fuelThedistribution.teamisalso working in leading damages cases currently ongoing in the courts, acting as expert economists in Spain for two defendants in the trucks EU follow-on actions and in some other national follow-on and stand-alone proceedings. They have also worked in relevant merger proceed ings, such the Bimbo-Panrico deal.
He is fluent in German and English.
”Fred is very user friendly and easy to work with”
Their work comprises analysis of microeco nomic and regulatory issues for companies and institutions, as well as combining the use of quan titative techniques and economic principles with their extensive regulatory experience. They were selected by the industry to draft a handbook to lead the economic interpretation of new regulation on intellectual property tariffs.
Fred Wandschneider CEG
Berliner Allee 26, 1st Floor Düsseldorf, 40212 Tel: +49 211 1760 fwandschneider@ceg-europe.com9162www.ceg-global.com
Frederick is a professional economist and heads the German operations of the Competition Economists Group. He specialises in competition economics, with a particular focus on damage estimations in both a competition and a commercial litigation context. He also advises national and international clients on matters relating to abuse of dominance, market power, horizontal and vertical agreements, regulatory issues and on broader dispute matters.
Formatters.thepast years Fred has been included among the most highly regarded German competition economists in the Expert Guides: Competition and Antitrust list and the Who’s Who Legal: Competition and Who’s Who Legal: Consulting Experts rankings. He is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, the German Competition Litigation Forum and the German Arbitration
He has written widely on competition matters, with his work being cited in recent court judge ments. This includes a chapter in the Handbuch Kartellrechtliche Schadensersatzklagen guide to cartel damages, commentary on recent court deci sions, as well as academic and editorial articles.
Peers and clients say: “He produces good quality work, which gets to the root of a matter at an early stage”
Carlos Pascual KPMG Economics
Fred frequently presents at conferences and external lawyer training courses on topics including typical and untypical defense arguments in cartel and abuse cases, the assessment of unilateral public price announcements, theories of harm in information exchange cases, and the use of economics in assessing cartel damages. He is also regularly invited to lecture on competition and liti gation
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FrederickInstitute.holds a Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia, a Master’s degree in Competition and Regulation Economics from Maastricht University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Passau.
”His advice is clear and to the point”
Carlos has also testified as an expert in commercial arbitration disputes, in cases where explaining the functioning of the markets was a key element under discussion. Spain
Carlos joined KPMG from the CNMC, where he was deputy director for market studies and reports within the advocacy department. He led market reports into different industries, such as airports, gas stations and car inspection services. From 2006 until 2008, Carlos was director general for compe tition at the Spanish Competition Authority. He was largely responsible for the drafting, approval and implementation of the new Spanish Competition Law, whereby the old two-tier competition system was transformed into the present single authority system, vested with new enforcement tools, such as leniency.Carlos joined the Spanish Competition Authority in 1997 as case handler, being involved in major investigations in telecommunications and energy. Later, he was head of the international unit, representing Spain in the competition policy modernisation discussions and reforms that took place at that time in the EU, such as the vertical and horizontal agreements regulations and Regulation 1/2003.Carlos is a frequent speaker at competition conferences and events and teaches at different competition courses in Madrid. He holds a master’s degree on research in economics and since 1997 has belonged to the body of state economists.
Swiss Economics is an economic consultancy firm based in Zurich. Founded in 2008, it offers a broad range of economic consultancy services and data analytics services to international corporate and public-sector clients in competition, regula tion, economic policy and (transfer) pricing. Swiss Economics has dedicated sectoral teams and works with leading law firms in Switzerland and Ottikerstrasseabroad.7Zurich,8006
Peers and clients say: “Carlos is a true expert in competition economics, with very strong technical knowledge” “He is smart and accurate in his approach to “Hematters”knows how to interact directly with the authorities and has insight into how they work”
Born in 1976, Christian Jaag was educated at the University of St Gallen, ESCP Europe, the Study Center Gerzensee and INSEAD (lic. oec. HSG, 2001; Ph.D. in economics and finance, 2006; Certificate in Corporate Governance, 2020).
Christian Jaag Swiss Economics
Economics is an economic consultancy firm based in Zurich. Founded in 2008, it offers a broad range of economic consultancy and data analytics services to international corporate and public-sector clients in competition, regulation, economic policy and (transfer) pricing. Swiss Economics has dedicated sectoral teams and works with leading law firms in Switzerland and abroad.
Peers and clients say: “Christian has razor-sharp analytical skills and can explain complex issues simply”
Tel: +34 91 456 34 carlos.pascual@kpmg.es00www.kpmg.es
“He is a very talented competition economist”
Michael Funk Swiss Economics
Peers and clients say: “He has excellent regulatory experience” ”Michael is well regarded by peers in Switzerland”
“Christian possesses an in-depth knowl edge of the sector and is extremely highly regarded” Zurich
Tel: +41 44 500 56 michael.funk@swiss-economics.ch23www.swiss-economics.ch
Ottikerstrasse 7 Zurich, 8006 Tel: +41 78 899 christian.jaag@swiss-economics.ch5859www.swiss-economics.ch
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Christian Jaag currently serves as president of the Swiss Association of Competition Economics. In addition to working as a competition economist, he is a member of various boards of directors in Swiss and international companies.
Michael holds a PhD in economics with special ization in public and political economics. Michael is the author of numerous articles published in antitrust policy journals and a frequent speaker at conferences for academics and practitioners.
He is the author of numerous academic and applied articles on public economics, industrial organisation, regulatory economics as well as law and economics.ChristianJaag speaks German, English and French.Swiss
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Christian Jaag is a co-founder and counsel at Swiss Economics.Headvises corporate and public-sector clients with respect to all issues related to competition and regulation. He provides economic support across the litigation/arbitration spectrum in commercial disputes, regulatory matters and competition cases including financial valuation and damages quantifi cation. He works closely with clients and their legal advisers at all stages of a case, from drafting first arguments, writing full expert reports through to testimony in front of competition authorities, regu latory bodies and courts.
Michael Funk is a principal with Swiss Economics. He has extensive experience in advising corporate and public-sector clients in the area of competition policy. He has worked on a wide range of cases including mergers, abuse of dominance, cartels and private damage claims. He has represented clients in front of various national regulatory and competition agencies and acted as an expert witness in an international arbitration case.
Michael specialises in the economics of network and digital markets, in particular tele coms, energy, postal and media. He has in-depth knowledge in the economics of platform markets, access prices and rebates. In addition, he has advised clients on principles of valuation, merger synergies and the damages from competition law infringements.Priortojoining Swiss Economics, Michael was a case handler for the Swiss Competition Commission, where he conducted several antitrust inquiries and advised governmental agencies and regulatory bodies on competition issues in media and telecom markets.
William S Choi AlixPartners
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David also has extensive experience in intellectual property and antitrust litigation, including CalTech v Broadcom and Apple. His work in international arbitration includes litigation and appearing as an expert witness in an arbitration between the Iranian government and a department of the UK Ministry of Defence regarding valuation of partially completed tanks being built for Iran when the contract was cancelled by Iran following the fall of the shah; an arbitration between Intelsat and France Telecom and others over the distribution of satellite communications services; an arbitration
He previously taught at Stanford University and Oxford University. David earned his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has received eight honorary doctorates and numerous prizes and other academic recognition for his professional and academic work. He has published over 200 articles and books.
Ottikerstrasse 7 Zurich, 8006 Tel: +41 44 500 56 samuel.rutz@swiss-economics.ch20www.swiss-economics.ch
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Peers and clients say: “Mr. Cho is an expe rienced and well-regarded expert economist in the US”
Peers and clients say: “I can strongly recommend Samuel”
Swiss Economics is an economic consultancy firm based in Zurich. Founded in 2008, it offers a broad range of economic consultancy and data analytics services to international corporate and public-sector clients in competition, regulation, economic policy and (transfer) pricing. Swiss Economics has dedicated sectoral teams and works with leading law firms in Switzerland and abroad.
”A prominent name who is widely recognised for his work”
David Teece is the professor in global busi ness and director of the Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital, Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Samuel Rutz is a vice director at Swiss Economics and currently serves as the managing director of the Swiss Association of Competition Economics. He has extensive experience in advising corporate and public-sector clients and their legal advisers in the field of competition policy enforcement, including cartels, abuse of dominance and merger control.After receiving his doctoral degree in economics at the University of Zurich, Samuel worked for nearly ten years for the secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (ComCo) – first as a senior economist, later as the chief economist of ComCo. In this role he was responsible for the quality management of ComCo’s decisions as well as the development and implementation of best practice. Further, he supported the case teams and the executive management with advice and repre sented ComCo in international affairs.
Dr William Choi is an experienced economist and statistician who assists organisations and govern ments in solving complex and challenging issues in the marketplace and the courtroom. He brings over 20 years of professional experience serving as an expert witness on matters related to class certification, antitrust, healthcare, securities litiga tion, statistics, econometrics, valuation of financial products and intellectual property. He has testified at deposition, trial and arbitration. His testimony and consulting experience have covered a range of industries, including automotive, mobile devices, telecommunications, online commerce, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, e-cigarettes, opioids, apparel, food products, software and consumer appliances.William also assists companies with improving their competitive position in the marketplace. In such matters, he provides companies with insights into their data using advanced economic and statistical analyses to design optimal pricing models, inventory management models, claims analysis and intellectual property valuation. In this capacity, he has assisted clients across numerous industries, including retail, pharmaceuticals, flash memory, restaurants, health insurance and alco holic beverages. He also previously was retained by the Department of Justice as an outside statistician related to its investigation of mortgage fraud that resulted in the largest settlements in US history.
“He is extremely intelligent and a good “Hecommunicator”hasathoroughness and deep under standing of the subject matter”
William has previously taught economics courses at Duke University and UCLA. He also has taught at conferences, including programs on class certification and damages, economics, valuation, statistics, game theory, licensing, and finance at annual meetings of the American Bar Association, the Licensing Executives Society and other associations.
David’s academic research and writing involves corporate and business strategy with specialisa tions in the management of technology and its commercialisation, intellectual property, and antitrust issues in high-tech industries. He has chaired boards of public companies and founded and guided numerous new enterprises in the United States and abroad. He also has complex deal and governance experience.
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Before joining Swiss Economics in 2015 Samuel worked as a vice director for the think tank “Avenir Suisse” where he mainly focused on compe tition policy and regulation. To this day he holds the position of a senior fellow with Avenir Suisse. Samuel published several studies and articles in the field of competition policy.
Peers and clients say: “David Teece is one of the pioneers of this industry”
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Dr. Argue received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 1990, after which he joined Economists Incorporated, the predecessor organization to Secretariat Economists. As a managing director at Secretariat Economists located in Washington, D.C., he analyzes compe tition and performs damages analyses in various health care markets for government merger reviews and private antitrust litigation. He has also taught MBA-level courses in the economics of health care at the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University and authored several articles and presentations on health care competition matters. Among the health care areas in which Dr. Argue has consulting experience are hospitals, physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, air ambulances, health insurance, prostheses, and pharmaceuticals. Hehastestified numerous times by deposi tion and in hearings on health care competition matters, including FTC v. Otto Bock HealthCare and Saint Alphonsus et al. and FTC v. St. Luke’s Health System. He also testified before the Utah state legislature about the competitiveness of health care markets in Utah. In addition, he has contributed to the debate over competition in health care through the publication of articles on cross-market merger theories in health care, bundling and alleged pred atory pricing, hospital merger simulation, and competition between physician-owned hospitals and general Recently,hospitals.Dr.Argue has testified in matters involving disputes between health care providers and payors regarding rates for out-of-network emegency services. His team has developed sophisticated econometric models to account for the various sources of value reflected in managed care contracting.
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Robin Cantor Berkeley Research Group
Robin Ann Cantor has more than 30 years of expe rience in environmental, health, energy economics, applied economics, statistics, risk management, and insurance claims analysis. Many of her projects involve science-based economic analysis used in litigation consulting, expert testimony, risk assess ment, and other advisory services. Her testimonial experience includes product liability estimation in insurance disputes, analysis of market share theories of product liability, healthcare reimburse ment, economic damages, asbestos settlements, premises and product claims, cost-contribution allocation in Superfund disputes, derailment risks, reliability of statistical models and estimation methods, and class-certification issues.
Dr Cantor also has extensive experience in industry-leading liability estimation and forecasting applications. Her approach provides insights beyond those of traditional estimation methodol ogies. Simulation models she has developed offer the flexibility to explore “what if?” scenarios that arise in the planning and decision processes for
Dr Cantor has conducted more than 30 product liability estimations and valuation studies related to product claims. These studies have been used in applications such as due diligence, settle ment negotiations, financial reporting, insur ance coverage, runoff analysis and bankruptcy proceedings. She has published scholarly arti cles addressing economic analysis and product liability. She has been a testifying or consulting expert in product liability matters involving more than a dozen large multinational firms, and has been qualified in federal court as an expert on economic damages and claims analysis. Her expertise includes: forecasting and modeling of indemnity and defense costs related to product liability claims; simulation of injury incidence based on economic, epidemiological, demographic, and engineering models; benchmarking and profiling of defendants’ and industries’ claims experiences and values; and statistical analysis of events (eg, tort reform) and trends (eg, aging) on claims expe riences and values.
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“He is world renowned as an antitrust “Heexpert”isa long established testifying expert”
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between the government of Latvia and Lattelecom arising out of the decision by the government to terminate Lattelecom’s exclusive contract to supply telephone service in Latvia in connection with Latvia’s efforts to enter the European Union; an arbitration between Zenon and Vivendi regarding membrane-based wastewater treatment facilities; and an arbitration between members of the Space Imaging Europe joint venture in a dispute over risk allocation and performance.
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Peers and clients say: “He is an excellent practitioner - very knowledgeable, smart and a good communicator”
”David Argue has a deep reservoir of industry ”Aknowledge”first-rate health economist”
Dr Cantor has led practice groups at national consulting firms and conducted analysis for compa nies and financial institutions to better understand environmental, health, and other product liability exposures. Her other previous positions include principal and managing director of the environ mental and insurance claims practice at a global consultancy; program director for Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences, a research programme of the National Science Foundation; and senior research appointments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Shereceived a PhD in economics with a specialisation in econometrics from Duke University and a BS in mathematics with a specialisation in statistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
“Robin is a very knowledgeable economist and who is creative in approaching how to estimate damages”
“Robin is superb at coming up with economic evidence to test and demonstrate that prin ciples are correct, which leads to compelling economic expert testimony”
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David has provided expert testimony on issues related to competition in numerous industries including real estate brokerage services, profes sional sports, pharmaceuticals, electronics, tobacco products and health care markets. His testimony includes analyses pertaining to mergers, conspiracy, and matters involving monopolization and exclusionary conduct. During the course of his career he has analysed over several hundred provider mergers at different stages of review. Particular analyses in monopolisation cases have included testimony on market definition and alter native forms of conduct including market share discounts; discriminatory access; raising rivals’ costs; staff privilege and essential facility denials; most favoured nations agreements; and predation.
Dr David M Eisenstadt is a senior managing director at Ankura, based in Washington, DC. He is a nationally known economic expert in the fields of antitrust and industrial organisation, and has developed particular consulting and testimony expertise in the antitrust and industrial organi sation analysis of health care markets. David’s experience, spanning more than 40 years, includes university teaching and employment as a senior economist at the US Department of Justice anti trust division. Since 1984, he has been employed in private economic consulting practice, including co-ownership of Microeconomic Consulting and Research Associates (MiCRA) from 1991 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been employed as a managing director in Navigant’s economics practice, acquired by Ankura in 2018.
Dr Cantor is past president of the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment and a fellow and past president of the Society for Risk Analysis. She has served on many academic advisory and editorial boards, including the research strate gies advisory committee of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s science advisory board. Her publications include refereed journal articles, book chapters, expert reports, and two books: one on economic exchange under various institutional and resource conditions, and the other on product liability (published by the American Bar Association).
Peers and clients say: “She is willing to think outside of the box”
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Peers and clients say: “Hardly anyone knows the healthcare landscape like David” “So experienced on the merger side”
David has published articles in the areas of healthcare antitrust, vertical restraints, and the compilation of economic evidence in matters that are reviewed under a truncated rule-of-reason standard.
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mid- to long-term strategies and investments. Her work has included state-of-the-art research from engineering, medicine, epidemiology, and demo graphics with a thorough knowledge of the history and status of litigation and the client’s specific liability experience. She uses well-accepted statistical and econometric methods to investigate appropriate analytical benchmarks and test key hypotheses related to the forecast problem.
During his career, he has made numerous appearances before federal and state antitrust agencies and has testified in federal, state and administrative courts as an economic expert. Most recently, he testified in FTC v Advocate Health Care Network, Steward v Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, and United Biologics et al v Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics et al. David has also testified in numerous non-antitrust commercial litigations, including disputes related to certificate of need review, trade secrets and other matters concerning theft of intellectual property. He has also computed economic damages in both antitrust and non-antitrust matters.
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Dr Godek has submitted numerous reports to the antitrust authorities and to various other federal agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, the International Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Dr Godek has testified as an expert witness on behalf of the Department of Justice and in private litigation. He has also been retained as a consulting expert by the Federal Trade Commission.Bothingovernment service and in private prac tice, Dr Godek’s work has focused on the applica tion of statistics and econometrics to antitrust and class-certification issues and to the computation of damages. He has extensive experience dealing with large and complex data bases.
Peers and clients say: “Paul has a great understanding of how the regulators
”Thereoperate”are few economists more experi enced than Paul”
Within the healthcare sector, Dr. Fowdur has investigated the competitive effects of horizontal and vertical mergers between hospitals, physician groups, pharmaceutical benefit managers, and health insurance companies. In recent years, she testified on behalf of the merging parties in the Anthem-Cigna trial and was the expert witness in a pharmaceutical case involving allegations of anti competitive reverse payments and product-hop ping. She has provided expert reports to state regulatory agencies, including a report analyzing vertical foreclosure issues in the CVS-Aetna merger. She has also consulted for a state Attorney General’s office on healthcare competition matters.
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Within the energy sector, Dr. Fowdur has worked on electric utility mergers, allegations of exercise of market power, investigations of exclu sionary practices, market-based rate filings, and other regulatory investigations of the conduct of electric, natural gas and coal companies. For example, Dr. Fowdur has investigated the design of capacity auctions within RTOs, transmission cost allocation issues, allegations of anticompetitive conduct during the California energy crisis, the extent of forward hedging by electric utilities, the outcomes of rate cases of interstate natural gas pipelines, and the impact of coal retirements on market structure. Dr. Fowdur also has training in the computation of cost-of-service ratemaking for interstate natural gas pipelines.
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Dr Godek received his PhD and MA in economics from the University of Chicago. He received his BA with high distinction from the University of Michigan.
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Dr. Fowdur has also written several articles and has spoken on ABA and AHLA panels regarding the economics of healthcare transactions, econo metric tools of competition analysis, crossmarket provider mergers, and physician practice acquisitions.Dr.Fowdur has a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University and undergraduate degrees in finance and economics from the University of Adelaide in Australia. She is originally from Mauritius and is fluent in French and Hindi.
“She brings excellent case management and attention to detail”
Examples of Dr Godek’s publications relating to industrial organization and public policy can be found in such journals as Antitrust Bulletin, Antitrust Source, Competition Policy International, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Law and Economics
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Lona Fowdur has more than 13 years experience as an antitrust economist with expertise in healthcare, energy and other sectors.
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Peers and clients say: “Lona provides avant-garde analyses of competition matters”
Before entering private consulting, Dr Godek served at both of the federal antitrust agencies. He was the economic advisor to the director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to that, he was a staff economist with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
Dr Paul Godek is a Managing Director at Secretariat Economists in Washington, DC. He has more than three decades of experience in litigation consulting –in the areas of antitrust, class certification, commer cial damages, and securities fraud.
“She possesses strong analytical and communication skills”
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”One of the top economists in the US”
Ms Guerin-Calvert has testified as an industrial organisation or healthcare economics expert in litigation matters in industries such as healthcare, mining (Arch Coal challenge by the FTC) and in class certification on batteries, DRAM and pharmaceu ticals. Ms Guerin-Calvert has served as economic expert for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department in the vertical Highmark/West Penn Allegheny trans action; for Wellmont Health System and Mountain States Health Alliance (now Ballad Health) in the certificate of public advantage (COPA) process in Tennessee and Virginia; and for the market inquiry into private healthcare competition in South Africa by the Competition Commission of South Africa Healthcare Market Inquiry (HMI) in retention by counsel for Netcare Group.
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Ms Guerin-Calvert’s experience on regulatory policy includes economic analyses of markets, market conditions, price caps, capacity, contracting, and community needs assessment; she assists clients with economic and strategic assessments on transactions, realignment and economic impact. Ms Guerin-Calvert leads FTI’s initiatives on health and economic wellbeing for public-private collab oratives including projects with a Chamber-led
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Dr. Heeb was an Equity Partner at Bates White Economic Consulting, where he was the leader of the Intellectual Property Practice and co-leader of the Antitrust and Competition Practice. He has testified extensively in matters before US state and federal courts, Canadian courts, arbitration panels, the US Copyright Royalty Board and the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He has presented economic analyses on behalf of clients to the staffs of the US Federal Trade Commission, the US Department of Justice, the Competition Bureau of Canada, the European Commission’s DG Comp, the Korean Fair Trade Commission, and the Japanese Fair Trade Commission.
group in Nashville and a western NY population health organisation. These use advanced analytics to assess drivers of medical and productivity costs from chronic conditions, quantify their local work force and broader community economic impact and aid in finding and implementing innovative strategies for improved outcomes; related projects include collaborative research with the World Economic Forum’s Workplace Wellness Alliance and ongoing projects to address health disparities and health equity issues. Ms Guerin-Calvert also leads the Center’s comprehensive economic impact studies for health systems and others, which quan tify tax and economic effects of operations, invest ments and policy changes.
Peers and clients say: “She is very responsive to questions and clarifications”
Peers and clients say: “Randal thinks outside the box while being practical at the same time”
“Margaret has the unique ability to marshal resources to respond promptly”
She served as assistant chief of the US Department of Justice antitrust division, and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board; and she taught economics at Duke University’s Institute of Policy Sciences (now the Sanford School of Public Policy). Her professional organisation positions include member of the American Economic Association; member of AcademyHealth; member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) roundtable on population health improvement, and co-chair of its collabo rative action group on business engagement in building healthy communities; and several lead ership positions of task forces and committees at the antitrust law section of the American Bar Association. She has an AB in economics from Brown University; and an MPA from Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
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Margaret (Meg) Guerin-Calvert is a senior managing director at FTI Consulting in Washington, DC, and founding president of its Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy. She has over 30 years of experience as an economist in both public and private sectors, in competition and regulatory policy, mergers, intellectual property, and litigation matters including damages and class certification. She was also a founding director of Competition Policy Associates (“Compass”), now Compass Lexecon, and has served as senior consultant, Compass Lexecon; she continues in this role on selected matters. She has served as economic adviser to private sector clients and government agencies in the US and internationally on numerous matters including mergers in many industries, as well as regulatory and competition policy and market inquiries.
Randal Heeb leads the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group at FTI Consulting. He has 35 years of experience providing economic analysis in both the private and public sectors. His expertise includes analysis of liability, damages, and other remedies in antitrust and intellectual property disputes. Dr. Heeb has written, consulted, and testi fied on a range of issues related to the application of economic and econometric analyses in a variety of industries, including software, computer hardware, telecommunications, commodities and financial markets, biopharmaceuticals, gene-therapy tech nology, electricity, natural gas, and gaming.
Dr. Heeb has previously held various academic posts in the United States and Europe and was most recently a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of Management. He has served private sector clients and public authorities operating in both regulated and unregulated markets, and he has taught antitrust compliance to executives in North America, Europe, and Asia.
“He possesses an in-depth understanding of all areas of antitrust analysis”
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Dr Kahwaty started his career as an econo mist with the Antitrust Division of the DOJ. At the Antitrust Division, he specialized in market power analysis for merger and monopolization cases with a focus on the computer software, banking, manufacturing, and defense industries. He spent fifteen years as a senior economist, principal, and director with LECG working out of LECG’s offices in Washington and London. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and was recognized in the 2011 and 2013–2019 editions of The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists
David Kaplan is an executive director at Berkeley Research Group, where he served from 2011 to 2021 as Vice Chairman and as a member of the Board of Managers. He specialises in antitrust economics (including matters related to claimed price fixing and monopolisation, by way of example); damage assessment in antitrust and intellectual property matters (including those involving patents, trade secrets, and defamation); and the analysis of damage issues related to general commercial litigation (including issues related to valuation).
He is experienced in analysing economic issues in matters involving possible class certifica tion, having submitted expert reports in over 15 such matters (including a large number related to antitrust issues). Mr Kaplan has testified as an economic expert in federal and state courts (including more than five hearings related to possible class certification), and before arbitra tion panels and regulatory agencies such as the International Trade Commission. He has also testi fied before Congress on antitrust and competitive policy issues.
Tel: +1 202 531 hkahwaty@thinkbrg.com1340www.thinkbrg.com
Dr Kahwaty has testified on cases during FTC, Canadian Competition Tribunal, and EC hearings. He prepared two reports on competition in banking for the Irish Competition Authority and assisted the Irish Competition Authority with its study of competition in the insurance industry.
Dr Kahwaty has presented analyses to the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission (EC), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Committee Staff, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and Small Business Administration.
Peers and clients say: “He is thorough, creative and practical”
Henry Kahwaty Berkeley Research Group
He has completed numerous antitrust reviews of mergers and horizontal and vertical contractual arrangements. He has also completed studies of monopolization and abuse of dominance in the context of government investigations and private litigation. His merger work includes studies of mergers in metals, solid waste, industrial prod ucts, computer hardware and software, defense electronics, pharmaceuticals, electricity, consumer goods, and telecommunications.
In addition, Dr Kahwaty has analyzed compe tition issues in the mining, luxury goods, banking, and hardware emulation industries. He has completed studies of vertical restraints and vertical integration, and the impact of such vertical rela tionships on competition. His work also includes the study of price fixing allegations, class certifi cation, and antitrust damages.
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“Henry is a first-rate economist”
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“He has a clear understanding of the facts and data and is able to articulate difficult concepts very clearly”
Henry Kahwaty’s areas of expertise include micro economics, industrial organization, antitrust economics, and econometrics.
Dr Kahwaty also has completed analyses of intellectual property damages and the economic impact of changes in government policy. Dr. Kahwaty’s policy work includes the analysis of issues in healthcare, including the costs associ ated with changes in Medicare, Medicaid, and the availability of generic drugs and biologic medicines. He has also worked on small business issues.
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“David is very innovative”
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Dr Manning also provided expert economics analysis of the merger of two providers of health care to federal, state and local prisons. In addi tion, she was the lead non-testifying economist in two monopolisation cases brought by hospi tals in Louisiana against Blue Cross, performing economic antitrust analysis on behalf of Blue Cross. She was also the lead non-testifying economist in a monopolisation case brought by a hospital in the Philadelphia area against Blue Cross. Dr Manning was the joint non-testifying lead economist on behalf of a group of hospitals
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Dr James Langenfeld is a senior managing director at Ankura, based in Washington, DC. He provides economic analyses and expert testimony for liti gation, regulatory actions and economic policy in a wide variety of industries. This work involves several different types of matters, including anti trust, damages, class actions, labour, mergers, statistical analyses, and the impact of regulation on firms and consumers. He also serves on the editorial board of several professional journals, and has published numerous articles in journals and books on diverse topics in applied economics and econometrics. Over his 30-year career, he has held positions as managing director at other consulting firms; director in the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission; and senior economist at General
“Mr Kaplan is a well-respected expert in the field of antitrust economics”
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”He is an excellent economist with great experience in prominent cases”
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Susan H Manning, PhD is a senior managing director at FTI Consulting, based in the Washington, DC office. She is chief operating officer in the Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy within the economic consulting segment. Dr Manning has over 30 years of economics and liti gation consulting experience, including extensive expertise in antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, international trade, and regulatory policy analysis. Dr Manning has provided economic analyses in support of mergers and acquisitions, filed under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, before the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, and before the European Commission in a broad range of industries.DrManning has experience performing economic analysis in healthcare-related matters. She was the testifying economics expert on anti trust efficiencies arising from the proposed OSF acquisition of Rockford Memorial before the Federal District Court of Northern Illinois. She also was the economics expert testifying on behalf of a hospital in Michigan alleged to have engaged in market allocation.
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”He does a broad range of antitrust work and is very active in the ABA”
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Peers and clients say: “David Kaplan has been a pioneer in the application of economics to legal issues”
Peers and clients say: “James is smart and very experienced”
Mr Kaplan has served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics, the Department of Justice and the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has published in the field of economics (including a book related to antitrust economics); taught business statistics in the MBA programme at Johns Hopkins University for more than 10 years (including the study of economet rics); and served as a lecturer in economics at George Mason University for 10 years (primarily teaching microeconomics, including the study of market competition). He has lectured at Columbia University, George Washington University, and the University of Utah. Mr Kaplan has submitted presentations concerning various economic issues before the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar, the Conference Board and Brookings Institution. Mr Kaplan has also taught CLE courses in damages analysis and class actions. He received an MA in economics from the George Washington University (in addition to a BA in economics) and a JD from the George Washington University National Law Center (but does not practise law).
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As an expert witness and regulatory and liti gation consultant, Dr Scheffman has worked on matters involving antitrust; mergers and joint ventures; class certification; RP; complex busi ness litigation (marketing practices, contracts, torts, management practices, etc); damages; and intellectual property (patents, copyrights, and trade secrets). He has also been an expert in matters that involved Section 5 of the FTC Act. He has testified as an expert in economics; econometrics; anti trust; damages; business strategy and manage ment; marketing; and advertising and consumer behaviour. He has presented to US federal and state, Canadian, and European government agen cies. He has experience with industries including manufacturing, energy, services, consumer prod ucts, healthcare, defence, media, retailing and distribution.
David Scheffman is a noted scholar with years of experience in high-level government positions. For many years, he taught business strategy and marketing courses to MBAs, executive MBAs and business executives. He also taught courses on economic theory and econometrics to PhD students in economics. He has worked as a busi ness consultant, expert witness, and litigation and regulatory consultant in a variety of matters for companies and attorneys.
in Albany, New York, and in Chicago, Illinois, in class actions brought by employed hospital nurses alleging a conspiracy to fix nurses’ wages. She has also performed economic analysis of an acquisi tion involving two managed care organisations and performed numerous economic analyses in support of hospital mergers. She was the lead non-testi fying economist providing economic and analytical support in ProMedica’s acquisition of St Luke’s Hospital in Toledo, Ohio.
Dr Scheffman has testified in jury and bench trials in federal, state and administrative proceed ings, and in arbitrations, in other countries and before Congress and state legislatures.
Dr. Nelson has worked on competition matters involving mergers, price fixing, vertical restraints, Robinson-Patman Act, unfair competition, intellec tual property, class certification, and damage issues. He has testified in contract disputes (on damages and liability issues), intellectual property disputes (on secondary indicia of non-obviousness, damages, and irreparable harm), FERC valuation hearings, and Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act compensation cases. Industries that he has analyzed include: pharmaceuticals, oil, natural gas, refining, gasoline marketing, pipelines, gasoline retailing, defense, grocery products, vehicles, automotive parts, pesticides, toys, electrical equipment, machine tools, plastics, chemicals, metals, household prod ucts, security exchanges, computer hardware and software, integrated circuits, retailing, fast-food, and health-care technologies and services. He is currently on the ABA Antitrust Section’s Council and has served as a chair and/or vice chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Economics, Intellectual Property, and Health Care and Pharmaceuticals Committees.
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Dr. Nelson is a Managing Director at Secretariat Economists. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, after graduating from Dartmouth College. He taught economics at Yale and antitrust law at Fordham Law School. He served as Assistant Director for Competition Analysis in the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. While at the FTC, he was on the Merger Screening and Evaluation Committees.
Peers and clients say: “He is a brilliant economist who understands pharmaceutical industry extraordinarily well”
”Philip is able to effectively and efficiently convey his opinions in writing and orally”
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”She’s been doing this – and doing it well –for over 30 years”
Dr. Nelson has written numerous articles and two books, CORPORATIONS IN CRISIS: BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATIONS FOR BANKRUPTCY POLICY and U.S. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS. He also helped edit the ABA Antitrust Section’s MARKET POWER HANDBOOK: COMPETITION LAW AND ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS. In addition, he co-authored the class certification chapter in the ABA Antitrust Section’s Econometrics: Legal, Practical, and Technical Issues, which has been cited by several district courts.
Peers and clients say: “Susan has experi ence addressing the whole range of antitrust and competition policy issues”
He was the expert for Whole Foods in the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s challenge of Whole Foods’ acquisition of Wild Oats. He was cited numerous times in the decision. He was also the expert for the defendant insurance brokers in a class action in which Marsh & McLennan was the lead defendant. Recently, he was the expert for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in a case brought by the US Department of Justice that has been continued by Aetna.
David Scheffman Berkeley Research Group
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Dr Scheffman has over 12 years of experience in a number of senior positions at the FTC (1979–1988 and 2001–2003). He was director of the Bureau of Economics (the head economist at the FTC) from 1985 to 1988; and from 2001 to 2003. The FTC Bureau of Economics website identifies several notable achieve ments under his leadership. Dr Scheffman has also served in many positions in the leadership of the antitrust section of the American Bar Association, including as a member of the council of the section.
Cleve B Tyler Berkeley Research Group
“He is an out-of-the-box thinker, bringing innovative solutions to daunting tasks”
”A bright, thoughtful and hard working
”Heeconomist”isagreat tactician and really under stands what will be most persuasive to the antitrust authorities”
Tel: +1 202 833 kwaehrer@secretariat-intl.com5206www.ei.com
Keith Waehrer’s work involves antitrust agency investigations and litigations as well as litiga tion among private parties. His work focuses on mergers, monopolization, price fixing, and intelec tual property disputes. Dr. Waehrer has testified at deposition and trial. His help is sought by both enforcers and private parties whose mergers or conduct are being investigated by US agencies. He has worked on some of the highest profile antitrust litigations in recent years – State of New York et al. v. T-Mobile-Sprint, FTC v. Qualcomm, United States v. AT&T-Time Warner, and United States of America et al. v. American Express Co. et al. – and on significant mergers – E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. and Dow Chemical Company, United Technologies Corp. and Rockwell Collins, and Comcast and Time Warner Cable (abandoned). Dr. Waehrer has authored highly regarded papers on the analysis of compet itive effects in auction markets and the impact of overlapping minority shareholdings on competition.
Peers and clients say: “He is an impres sive advocate and is able to take the most complex arguments and make them simple and most effective”
Dr Scheffman is recognised expert in, among other areas, industrial organisation and antitrust economics, having authored several important arti cles and books on topics such as monopolisation, vertical restraints, market definition, merger anal yses and barriers to entry. He has also written on, taught and consulted on issues involving business strategy, marketing, pricing, distribution and intel lectual property.
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He has worked on matters involving a wide range of industries, including consumer products, telecommunications, aerospace, music licensing, pharmaceuticals, financial services, e-commerce, agricultural inputs, industrial parts, veterinary services, and chemicals.
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Cleve B. Tyler, PhD, is a managing director at BRG who specializes in applying economic analyses to antitrust, intellectual property, and damages issues.
1800 M Street NW, Second Floor Washington, 20036 Tel: +1 202 480 ctyler@thinkbrg.com2727www.thinkbrg.com
1800 M Street NW, Second Floor Washington, 20036
Peers and clients say: “He does an excel lent job communicating complex data and analytic concepts to our clients”
Dr Scheffman taught at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, where he was a chaired professor from 1989 until 1998, and taught as an adjunct professor until 2011. He won faculty-wide teaching awards in 2002 and 2006. He created and taught the business strategy curriculum at the Owen School and continues to teach a course on business strategy in the executive MBA programme, and he has won a teaching award in this programme. He has also taught MBA courses at the Owen School on marketing, distribution, pricing and the manage ment and valuation of intellectual property.
An economic consultant with more than twenty years of experience, Dr. Tyler also teaches, writes, and speaks about competition and intellectual prop erty topics. He has testified at deposition and trial in federal court, in state court, and at arbitration. Dr. Tyler is an adjunct professor of economics in Johns Hopkins University’s applied economics program, teaching graduate-level courses in industrial organ ization and microeconomics.
Dr. Tyler holds a PhD in economics special izing in industrial organization, finance, and the economics of the public sector. He is an author of the book Assets and Finance: Calculating Intellectual Property Damages , published by ThomsonReuters. He has published articles on damages and competition issues, including in Antitrust, Antitrust Bulletin, and The Global Competition Review
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Dr. Tyler has developed or analyzed damages models for a range of matters including antitrust, unfair competition, patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and has evalu ated class certification issues. His competition and antitrust work include evaluation of both horizontal and vertical issues and analysis of market definition, market power, and competitive effects using regres sion analysis and economic modeling. Dr. Tyler has analyzed economics and damages issues in many industries, including waste collection and disposal, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, semiconductors, memory products, telecommu nications, data products and services, enterprise software, online search advertising, video games, insurance, healthcare, avionics, automotive and automobile components, home appliances, food and beverages, and electricity generation and distribution.
“Cleve makes the complex very simple, so clients feel empowered”
Dr Scheffman has taught business strategy in the executive MBA programme at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He has also taught PhD-level courses on economic theory and econometrics. Finally, he taught statistics for lawyers at Georgetown University Law Center.
In addition to his work on US matters, as a visiting partner at ESMT Competition Analysis (now known as E.CA Economics) in Berlin, Germany, Dr. Waehrer worked on a number of significant matters before the European Commission and European national competition authorities. Dr. Waehrer’s international experience includes testimony before the South African Competition Tribunal.
Peers and clients say: “David is impres sive from both a regulatory and litigation “Heperspective”isconsidered one of the leading voices on several areas of competition law and “Heeconomics”wasat the forefront of bringing data and empirical analyses to merger and non-merger matters”
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Peers and clients say: “Mr Warren-Boulton is an excellent economist and expert” “Rick is a bright and thoughtful economist and a good communicator” “He has great government experience”
Tel: +1 202 559 rwarren-Boulton@thinkbrg.com2169www.thinkbrg.com
Besides his litigation work, Fred currently represents the alleged ringleader, a major construction company, in Austria’s largest ever cartel probe before the Kartellgericht. Recently he has also advised defendants in the power cables industries in relation to cartel allegations, has advised METRO in its proposed sale of German food retailer Real before the Federal Cartel Office, has quantified joint purchasing benefits for multiple British food retailers, and has assessed competi tive links between parties in a shareholder dispute.
Frederick is a professional economist and heads the German operations of the Competition Economists Group. He specialises in competition economics, with a particular focus on damage estimations in both a competition and a commercial litigation context. He also advises national and international clients on matters relating to abuse of dominance, market power, horizontal and vertical agreements, regulatory issues and on broader dispute matters.
Frederick R Warren-Boulton Berkeley Research Group
Peers and clients say: “Matt is well known for his deep expertise in financial and trading data analysis”
Mr Evans was formerly a director at Barclays, where he was head of US commodities valuations and new business. In this role, Mr Evans led the Barclays valuations team, which was responsible for valuation controls, valuations testing, and various market research, risk management and control analyses. Earlier in his career, he worked as an inter-dealer derivatives broker and a risk management analyst. 909 Third Avenue New York, 10022 Tel: +1 646 746 mevans@alixpartners.com2495www.alixpartners.com
Mr Evans is an expert in global financial deriva tives markets; asset/contract valuation; trading practices in physical, financial, and hybrid instru ments; risk management practices; and hedging techniques in financial and commodity markets. He has performed a wide variety of consulting work in relation to strategy, valuation, regulatory inquiries, and risk advisory for major commercial firms, marketers, hedge funds and global finan cial institutions. He is an expert in the analysis of high-frequency trading (HFT) data from a variety of securities and futures markets, and has over 15 years of experience in re-creating and examining various trading strategies embedded deep in the trading “tape”.
”He has a fantastic reputation in financial matters”
Matthew Evans AlixPartners
1800 M Street NW, Second Floor Washington, 20036
Fred frequently presents at conferences and external lawyer training courses on topics including typical and untypical defense arguments in cartel and abuse cases, the assessment of unilateral public price announcements, theories of harm in information exchange cases, and the use of economics in assessing damages. He also lectures on competition and litigation matters at English universities.Fredis included among the most highly regarded German competition economists in the Expert Guides 2020: Competition and Antitrust list. Since 2019 he is repeatedly listed as one of Germany’s “Future Leaders” in the Who’s Who Legal: Competition and Who’s Who Legal: Consulting Experts rankings. He is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, the German Competition Litigation Forum and the German ArbitrationFrederickInstitute.holds a Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia, a Master’s degree in Competition and Regulation Economics from Maastricht University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Passau. He is fluent in German and English.
He has written widely on competition matters. This includes a chapter in the Handbuch Kartellrechtliche Schadensersatzklagen guide to cartel damages, commentary on recent court deci sions, as well as academic and editorial articles.
In his commercial litigation work, Fred has acted for both plaintiffs and defendants in over 20 cartel damages cases. He has broad sectoral experience, with specific expertise in the automo tive, consumer goods, financial services, retail, telecommunications, and transportation sectors. Case examples including pesticides, aluminium smelters, bathroom fittings, roll-on/roll-off shipping, trucks, German payment cards, sugar, confectionery, polyurethane foam and various car parts. Clients include household names like Deichmann, dm, METRO, Suez, United Airlines, Veolia, Volkswagen or Zentis, but also small agri-businesses and automotive suppliers.
Mr Evans has provided litigation support in many high-profile derivatives cases and has testi fied at trial as an expert in derivatives markets and trading data analysis in landmark cases such as USA v Coscia and CFTC v DRW. He has been recog nised as an expert in commodities markets and trading data analysis in US district court and has also offered expert testimony in US state, UK high court and other venues.
David Round Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis, University of South Australia School of Commerce dkround@gmail.com
GerhardAustriaClemenz
Luiz Carlos Delorme Prado UFRJ - Instituto de Economia lcdprado@gmail.com Ruy Santacruz Universidade Federal Fluminense ruy@ruysantacruz.com.br Fabiana Tito Tendências Consultoria Integrada ftito@tendencias.com.br Paulo Furquim de Azevedo Insper Institute and Global Economics Group paulofa1@insper.edu.br
Germán Coloma
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Castalia alex.sundakov@castalia-advisors.com
Luke Wainscoat
Yan Yu RBB Economics yan.yu@rbbecon.com
Positive Competition bruno.jullien@tse-fr.eu
University of Vienna klaus.gugler@univie.ac.at
Freyre y Asociados SA rjfreyre@freyreyasoc.com.ar Diego Petrecolla
Charles River Associates gedwards@crai.com
Klaus Gugler
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HoustonKemp Economists luke.wainscoat@houstonkemp.com
Claus Kastberg Nielsen Copenhagen Economics ck@copenhageneconomics.com Kai-Uwe Kühn
Jennifer Fish Charles River Associates jfish@crai.com
Philip Williams
Universidad de San Andrés dpetrecolla@udesa.edu.ar
University of Vienna christine.zulehner@univie.ac.at
Enrique Andreu Compass Lexecon eandreu@compasslexecon.com
MarceloArgentinaCelani
Canada
GeoffAustraliaEdwards
Universidad Torcuato di Tella mcelani@utdt.edu
Simon Bishop RBB Economics simon.bishop@rbbecon.com
Benoît Durand RBB Economics benoit.durand@rbbecon.com
Mihael Raveggi RBB Economics mihael.raveggi@rbbecon.com Nicole Robins Oxera nicole.robins@oxera.com Francesco Rosati RBB Economics francesco.rosati@rbbecon.com
Positive Competition patrick.legros@ulb.be Valérie Meunier Compass Lexecon vmeunier@compasslexecon.com
Rhonda Smith
Positive Competition aboutin@positivecompetition.com Xavier Boutin* Positive Competition xboutin@positivecompetition.com Cristina Caffarra Charles River Associates ccaffarra@crai.com Adina Claici The Brattle Group adina.claici@brattle.com Raphaël De Coninck* Charles River Associates rdeconinck@crai.com Mathias Dewatripont ECARES mdewat@ulb.ac.be Michael Dietrich RBB Economics michael.dietrich@rbbecon.com
Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro Federal University of Rio de Janeiro eribeiro@ie.ufrj.br
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University of Antwerp Department of Economics jan.bouckaert@ua.ac.be Aleksandra Boutin*
Frontier Economics Ltd philip.williams@frontier-economics.com.au
Tom Hird CEG tom.hird@ceg-ap.com
The Brattle Group kai-uwe.kuhn@affiliate.brattle.com
Frank Verboven
Joan de Solà-Morales RBB Economics joan.sola-morales@rbbecon.com Miguel de la Mano RBB Economics miguel.mano@rbbecon.com Nils von Hinten Reed* CEG nvhr@ceg-europe.com
Gregor Langus Competitionsphere Gregor.langus@competitionsphere.com
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Universidad del CEMA gcoloma@cema.edu.ar Esteban Greco
Patrick Legros*
SílviaBrazilFagá de Almeida* LCA Consultores silvia.almeida@lcaconsultores.com.br Juan Pérez Ferres Ferres & Associados juan@ferres.com.br Marcos Lima M&A Consultoria Econômica mlima@meaconsultoriaeconomica.com.br Bernardo Gouthier Macedo* LCA Consultores bernardo.macedo@lcaconsultores.com.br Gustavo Madi Rezende* LCA Consultores gustavo.madi@lcaconsultores.com.br Gesner Oliveira GO Associados gesner@goassociados.com.br Edgard Pereira Edgard Pereira & Associados edgard@edap.com.br João Pondé Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ponde@ie.ufrj.br
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Alex Sundakov
Frontier Economics Ltd mette.alfter@frontier-economics.com Nuno Alvim RBB Economics nuno.alvim@rbbecon.com
Laurent Eymard The Brattle Group Laurent.Eymard@brattle.com Cyril Hariton* Positive Competition Cyril.Hariton@positivecompetition.com Bruno Jullien*
Greg Houston HoustonKemp Economists greg.houston@houstonkemp.com
Christine Zulehner
Vitaly Pruzhansky RBB Economics vitaly.pruzhansky@rbbecon.com
British Columbia
University of Vienna gerhard.clemenz@univie.ac.at
Jan Bouckaert
MetteBelgiumAlfter
The University of Melbourne rhondals@unimelb.edu.au
Leuven Catholic University- Dept of Economics frank.verboven@econ.kuleuven.be Lars Wiethaus* Charles River Associates lwiethaus@crai.com
Jason Ockerby CEG jason.ockerby@ceg-ap.com
Thomas Ross University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business tom.ross@sauder.ubc.ca Michael Tretheway InterVISTAS Consulting Inc mike.tretheway@intervistas.com
Thomas Rønde
RBB Economics ethel.fonseca@rbbecon.com
Matthew Bennett Charles River Associates mbennett@crai.com
RBB Economics paul.hutchinson@rbbecon.com
Oxera Consulting LLP j_kavanagh@oxera.com
Dan Donath
Charles River Associates schisholm@crai.com
Ronald Fischer
The Brattle Group renee.duplantis@brattle.com
Pavel Vacek
CRS Economics sro pavel.vacek@crsecon.com
Zhiqi Chen
Czech Republic
Neil Dryden Compass Lexecon ndryden@compasslexecon.com
Bojana Ignjatovic RBB Economics bojana.ignjatovic@rbbecon.com
Andrea Butelmann
University of Oxford mark.armstrong@economics.ox.ac.uk Pinar Bagci
Alexander Galetovic
Charles River Associates djackson@crai.com
James Harvey* Economic Insight Ltd james.harvey@economic-insight.com
Michael J Trebilcock
Department of Economics. Universidad de Chile rfischer@dii.uchile.cl
Andrés Gómez-Lobo
SørenDenmarkAndersen
ClaudioChileA Agostini
Jorge Fantuzzi
Zoltan Biro Frontier Economics Ltd zoltan.biro@frontier-economics.com
Butelmann Consultores abutelmann@butelmann.cl
RBB Economics daniel.gore@rbbecon.com
Daniel Gore
Paul Klemperer
Butelmann Consultores amontoya@butelmann.cl
Charles River Associates msanderson@crai.com
Milan Brouček
MarkEnglandArmstrong
Rotman School of Management joshua.gans@gmail.com
Helen Jenkins Oxera Consulting LLP h_jenkins@oxera.com
Carleton University zhiqi.chen@carleton.ca
Simon Chisholm
PanayiotisCyprusAgisilaou*
Roger Ware
Charles River Associates rwinter@crai.com
Fingleton Associates info@fingletonassociates.com
Iain Boa
Gabriel Bitrán
Henrik Ballebye Okholm Copenhagen Economics hbo@copenhageneconomics.com
Ana Maria Montoya
Fernando Coloma Correa
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez claudio.agostini@uai.cl
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile fcoloma@uc.cl
The Brattle Group Pinar.Bagci@brattle.com
Derek Holt* AlixPartners UK LLP dholt@alixpartners.com Mat Hughes* AlixPartners UK LLP mhughes@alixpartners.com
Liam Colley* Cornerstone Research liam.colley@cornerstone.com
Rodrigo Harrison
Renée Duplantis
p.agisilaou@trojaneconomics.com
Frontier Economics Ltd iain.boa@frontier-economics.com
Paul Hutchinson
Andy Baziliauskas
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez rodrigo.harrison@uai.cl
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Greg Harman* Berkeley Research Group gharman@thinkbrg.com
Charles River Associates abaziliauskas@crai.com
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Stephen Davies University of East Anglia s.w.davies@uea.ac.uk
Luis Correia da Silva Oxera Consulting LLP luis.correia@oxera.com
Rie Paving Mortensen Plesner Advokatpartnerselskab rpm@plesner.com
Urs Haegler Compass Lexecon uhaegler@compasslexecon.com
Matt Hunt* AlixPartners UK LLP mhunt@alixpartners.com
Copenhagen Business School thr.ino@cbs.dk
John Fingleton
Lorenzo Coppi Compass Lexecon lcoppi@compasslexecon.com
Kromann Reumert snan@kromannreumert.com
G Bitrán & Asociados gbitran@bya.cl
Joseph Bell Oxera Consulting LLP joseph.bell@oxera.com
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile jmontero@uc.cl
Charles River Associates ddonath@crai.com
David Foster Frontier Economics Ltd david.foster@frontier-economics.com
University of Oxford paul.klemperer@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Marcela Melendez marcelamelendez@economica.com.co
RBB Economics
University of Toronto Faculty of Law michael.trebilcock@utoronto.ca
Margaret Sanderson
AMC Economics Ltd paul.hofer@amc-economics.com
Stephen Lewis
The Brattle Group Peter.Davis@brattle.com
James Baker Frontier Economics Ltd james.baker@frontier-economics.com
Justin Coombs Compass Lexecon jcoombs@compasslexecon.com
MarcelaColombiaMelendez
Ontario
Department of Economics. Universidad de Chile agomezlo@econ.uchile.cl
Erik Molin Gorrissen Federspiel emo@gorrissenfederspiel.com
FK Economics jfantuzzi@fkeconomics.com
University of East Anglia Amelia.Fletcher@uea.ac.uk
Paul Hofer
Queen’s University - Dept of Economics ware@econ.queensu.ca
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez alexander@galetovic.cl
Trojan Economics
James Kavanagh
Kirsten Edwards-Warren Compass Lexecon kedwards-warren@compasslexecon.com
Joshua Gans
Jorge Tarziján Martabit
Philip Kalmus Charles River Associates pkalmus@crai.com
Ralph A Winter
Department of Economics. Universidad de Chile agonzalez@econ.uchile.cl
Claudio Calcagno GMT Economics Ltd claudio@gmt-economics.co.uk
Avantika Chowdhury Oxera Consulting LLP a_chowdhury@oxera.com
Diana Jackson
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile jtarzija@uc.cl
Simon Gaysford Frontier Economics Ltd simon.gaysford@frontier-economics.com
HAVEL & PARTNERS, Attorneys-at-law milan.broucek@havelpartners.cz
Juan-Pablo Montero
Matthew Johnson Oxera Consulting LLP m_johnson@oxera.com
Amelia Fletcher
stephen.lewis@rbbecon.com
Ethel Fonseca
Nicola Mazzarotto KPMG Economics nicola.mazzarotto@kpmg.co.uk
Gunnar Niels
Compass Lexecon psaaskilahti@compasslexecon.com
frinnen@ceg-europe.com Monika Schnitzer
NERA Economic Consulting marc.ivaldi.affiliate@nera.com
KPMG Economics aperrot@mapp-economics.com Patrick Rey Toulouse School of Economics patrick.rey@tse-fr.eu
Laurent Flochel
Georg Clemens Compass Lexecon gclemens@compasslexecon.com Julia Dietrich Frontier Economics Ltd julia.dietrich@frontier-economics.com Christian Ehmer RBB Economics christian.ehmer@rbbecon.com Enno Eilts Oxera enno.eilts@oxera.com Niels Frank* Lademann & Associates GmbH Economists and Competition Consultants frank@lademann-associates.com Hans W Friederiszick* E.CA Economics friederiszick@e-ca.com Alexander Gaigl Oxera alexander.gaigl@oxera.com Justus Haucap DICE Consult haucap@dice-consult.de Martin Hellwig Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods hellwig@coll.mpg.de Roman Inderst RCS Economics rinderst@r-c-s.eu Thilo Klein Compass Lexecon tklein@compasslexecon.com Simone Kohnz* E.CA Economics kohnz@e-ca.com Rainer P Lademann* Lademann & Associates GmbH Economists and Competition Consultants lademann@lademann-associates.com Stefan Lochner Frontier Economics Ltd stefan.lochner@frontier-economics.com Frank P Maier-Rigaud ABC Economics Frank.Maier-Rigaud@ABCecon Rainer Nitsche* E.CA Economics nitsche@e-ca.com Volker Nocke University of Mannheim nocke@uni-mannheim.de Martin Peitz University of Mannheim martin.peitz@googlemail.com Christoph Riechmann Frontier Economics Ltd comchristoph.riechmann@frontier-economics.
Aalto University School of Business otto.toivanen@aalto.fi
Oxera Consulting LLP g_niels@oxera.com
Toulouse School of Economics paul.seabright@tse-fr.eu David Sevy Compass Lexecon dsevy@compasslexecon.com David Spector KPMG Economics dspector@mapp-economics.com Jean Tirole
John Vickers University of Oxford john.vickers@economics.ox.ac.uk
Grant Saggers* NERA Economic Consulting grant.saggers@nera.com
Rameet Sangha Compass Lexecon rsangha@compasslexecon.com
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Boaz Moselle Compass Lexecon bmoselle@compasslexecon.com
Ian Small Compass Lexecon ismall@compasslexecon.com
Pierre Regibeau Charles River Associates pregibeau@crai.com
RBB Economics adrian.majumdar@rbbecon.com
David Parker Frontier Economics Ltd david.parker@frontier-economics.com
LaurentFranceBenzoni
Mark Williams ECLM Economics Limited mark.williams@eclmeconomics.com
Patrick Smith RBB Economics patrick.smith@rbbecon.com
Rachel Webster Frontier Economics Ltd rachel.webster@frontier-economics.com
Andy Parkinson Compass Lexecon aparkinson@compasslexecon.com
Dan Maldoom DotEcon Ltd dan.maldoom@dotecon.com
Charles River Associates lflochel@crai.com
PekkaFinlandSääskilahti
Paul Seabright
Adrian Majumdar
AlixPartners GmbH ubrunner@alixpartners.com
Fabian Rinnen* CEG
Cento Veljanovski Case Associates cento@casecon.com
Sam Williams* Economic Insight Ltd sam.williams@economic-insight.com
Charles River Associates hweeds@crai.com
Simon Maunder Flint Global simonmaunder@flint-global.com
George Yarrow Regulatory Policy Institute george.yarrow@rpieurope.org Reinder van Dijk Oxera Consulting LLP r_dijk@oxera.com
Marc Ivaldi
Robin Noble Oxera Consulting LLP r_noble@oxera.com
Chris Newton Frontier Economics Ltd chris.newton@frontier-economics.com
Charles River Associates aoverd@crai.com
Iestyn Williams RBB Economics iestyn.williams@rbbecon.com
Frederic Jenny
ESSEC Business School frederic.jenny@gmail.com François Lévêque Deloitte fleveque@deloitte.fr David Martimort Paris School of Economics david.martimort@psemail.eu Anne Perrot
Josh White Analysis Group josh.white@analysisgroup.com
Matthias Pflanz Compass Lexecon mpflanz@compasslexecon.com
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München schnitzer@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Fred Wandschneider* CEG
Michael Waterson Warwick University michael.waterson@warwick.ac.uk
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Paula Ramada London Economics pramada@londoneconomics.co.uk
Tera Consultants benzoni@tera.fr
Alan Overd
Luís Fontaine Campos Frontier Economics Ltd luis.campos@frontier-economics.com Antoine Chapsal Analysis Group antoine.chapsal@analysisgroup.com
Toulouse School of Economics jean.tirole@tse-fr.eu Gildas de Muizon* Deloitte gdemuizon@deloitte.fr
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods weizsaecker@coll.mpg.de
Otto Toivanen
fwandschneider@ceg-europe.com Christian von Weizsäcker
Caitlin Wilkinson KPMG Economics caitlin.wilkinson@kpmg.co.uk
UliGermanyBrunner*
sean.lyons@esri.ie
Patrick McNutt
Francis O’Toole Trinity College francis.otoole@tcd.ie
GabrielIsraelBaron
Hoon
Maurice de Valois Turk Oxera maurice.devaloisturk@oxera.com Eric van Damme Tilburg University eric.vandamme@uvt.nl
Macroconsult ecuba@macrocon.com.pe Hugo Santa Maria APOYO Consultoria hsantamaria@apoyoconsultoria.com
NERA Economic Consulting hiroaki.ishigaki@nera.com
Hayden Green Axiom Economics hayden.green@axiomeconomics.co.nz
Turin University carlo.cambini@polito.it Barbara Veronese Oxera
YannisGreeceSKatsoulacos
Barbara.Veronese@oxera.com
Patrick Massey Compecon Ltd pmassey@compecon.ie
Ram Tamara Nathan Associates rtamara@nathaninc.com
Stephan Malherbe
Shlomi Parizat
Amsterdam School of Economics m.p.schinkel@uva.nl
Matthijs Visser RBB Economics matthijs.visser@rbbecon.com
Allen & Gledhill LLP elsa.chen@allenandgledhill.com Tanya Tang Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP tanya.tang@rajahtann.com Julian Wright National University of Singapore jwright@nus.edu.sg
PaoloItalyBuccirossi
JincyIndiaElizabeth Francis
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Ernst & Young LLP jincy.francis@in.ey.com
Maria Fernanda de la Vega Alef Consultores vega@alefconsultores.net
Sogang University jeonsh@sogang.ac.kr Keunkwan Ryu Seoul National University ryu@snu.ac.kr
Carlo Cambini
Alan Gray Indecon awgray@indecon.ie
Elisa Mariscal Global Economics Group emariscal@globaleconomicsgroup.com
SKP Group s.khemani@skpgroup.com
James Mellsop NERA Economic Consulting james.mellsop@nera.com
ElsaSingaporeChen
Roy Rosenberg Compass Lexecon rrosenberg@compasslexecon.com
PedroPortugalPitaBarros
AslanMexicoCohen
Jaime Serra Puche SAI Law & Economics jsp@sai.com.mx
Pascual García Alba Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) garcia.alba@itesm.mx
Sean Lyons ESRI
Richard Tong-Jun Shin Bae, Kim & Lee LLC richard.shin@bkl.co.kr Sang-Seung Yi Seoul National University ssyi@snu.ac.kr
Zoltán Pápai Infrapont Economic Consulting zoltan.papai@infrapont.hu
Hong Kong
HiroakiJapanIshigaki
Dr Shlomi Parizat shlomi@s-parizat.com
Lear paolo.buccirossi@learlab.com
Alvaro Ruben Sanchez Gonzalez Alrusago alrusago@antitrust.com.mx Eduardo Scola
Menachem Perlman & Company menap@netvision.net.il
Eduardo Perez Motta SAI Law & Economics epm@sai.com.mx
New Zealand
Universidade Nova de Lisboa ppbarros@fe.unl.pt Ricardo Gonçalves Universidade Católica Portuguesa rgoncalves@porto.ucp.pt Abel Moreira Mateus Universidade Nova de Lisboa abel.m.mateus@clix.pt
Paul Anderson Genesis Analytics (Pty) Ltd paul@genesis-analytics.com
GergelyHungaryCsorba
Oslo Economics rolf.sverre.asp@osloeconomics.no Asbjørn Englund Oslo Economics aen@osloeconomics.no Tommy S Gabrielsen University of Bergen tommy.gabrielsen@econ.uib.no Ove Skaug Halsos Oslo Economics ove.skaug.halsos@osloeconomics.no Harald K Selte Advokatfirmaet BAHR AS hks@bahr.no Jostein Skaar Oslo Economics jsk@osloeconomics.no Frode Steen Norwegian School of Economics frode.steen@nhh.no
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Trinity College Paul.Gorecki@esri.ie
Infrapont Economic Consulting gergely.csorba@infrapont.hu
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Beeri Economic Consulting LTD mbeeri@gmail.com
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Pat McCloughan
Athens University of Economics and Business ysk@hol.gr
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JeonKoreaSeong
Roger Noll
Maria Salgado Cornerstone Research msalgado@cornerstone.com Celeste Saravia Cornerstone Research csaravia@cornerstone.com
Michael Funk* Swiss Economics michael.funk@swiss-economics.ch
richard.murgatroyd@rbbecon.com
Kroll
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Dina Older Aguilar Cornerstone Research dolder@cornerstone.com
Richard J Gilbert Compass Lexecon rgilbert@compasslexecon.com
Jorge Padilla Compass Lexecon jpadilla@compasslexecon.com
Gregory K Leonard Charles River Associates gleonard@crai.com
Susan Woodward
Arizona
Benjamin Klein Compass Lexecon bklein@compasslexecon.com
Judith A Chevalier Yale School of Management judith.chevalier@yale.edu
James A Levinsohn Yale School of Management james.levinsohn@yale.edu
Barry Nalebuff Yale School of Management barry.nalebuff@yale.edu
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Elizabeth Bailey Charles River Associates ebailey@crai.com
The Brattle Group jose.garcia@brattle.com
Andres Lerner Compass Lexecon alerner@compasslexecon.com
John Asker UCLA (Senior Advisor to Cornerstone Research) johnasker@gmail.com
David Jiménez-Ayala
David Teece* Berkeley Research Group dteece@thinkbrg.com
Stanford Graduate School of Business athey@stanford.edu
Sten Nyberg Stockholm University sten.nyberg@ne.su.se
Natalia Fabra Universidad Carlos III De Madrid nfabra@eco.uc3m.es
Mats Bergman
The Brattle Group dan.mcfadden@brattle.com
Sand Hill Econometrics, Inc info@sandhillecon.com
Richard Murgatroyd
Susan Carleton Athey
Aaron S Edlin University of California at Berkeley School of Law aaron.s.edlin@gmail.com
Jeffrey Leitzinger
Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics massimo.motta@upf.edu
Carl Shapiro University of California at Berkeley - Haas School of Business cshapiro@berkeley.edu
Christian Jaag* Swiss Economics christian.jaag@swiss-economics.ch
Bruce Owen Stanford University bruceowen@stanford.edu
California
RBB Economics petter.berg@rbbecon.com
Georges Siotis Compass Lexecon gsiotis@compasslexecon.com
Zurich
Samuel Rutz* Swiss Economics samuel.rutz@swiss-economics.ch
Econ One Research Inc jleitzinger@econone.com
Peter C Reiss
Jeffrey K MacKie-Mason
University of California, Los Angeles edward.leamer@anderson.ucla.edu
RBB Economics
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Geneva
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Jesse David Edgeworth Economics jdavid@edgewortheconomics.com Fei Deng Charles River Associates FDeng@crai.com
Damien Neven
University of California at Berkeley School of Law jmmason@berkeley.edu
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Michael Topper Cornerstone Research mtopper@cornerstone.com
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Michael Keeley Cornerstone Research mkeeley@cornerstone.com
Timothy F Bresnahan
William S Choi* AlixPartners wchoi@alixpartners.com
Carlos Pascual* KPMG Economics carlos.pascual@kpmg.es
PetterSwedenBerg
Thomas McCarthy
Lawrence Wu NERA Economic Consulting lawrence.wu@nera.com
Paul Wong
Fiona M Scott Morton Yale School of Management fiona.scottmorton@yale.edu
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david.jimenez-ayala@kroll.com
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Switzerland
Sharon M Oster Yale School of Management sharon.oster@yale.edu
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Jonathan Levin Stanford Graduate School of Business jdlevin@stanford.edu
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Massimo Motta
Berne
EnriqueSpainCañizares Pacheco
Södertörn University mats.bergman@sh.se
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Stanford University (Senior Advisor to Cornerstone Research) tbbfff@cornerstone.com Duncan Cameron Compass Lexecon dcameron@compasslexecon.com
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The University of Arizona (Senior Advisor to Cornerstone Research) gautamg2@gmail.com
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies damien.neven@graduateinstitute.ch
Niklas Strand RBB Economics niklas.strand@rbbecon.com
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Elena Zoido Compass Lexecon ezoido@compasslexecon.com
Edward E Leamer
William Landes
Kevin Murphy
Paul E Godek* Secretariat pgodek@secretariat-intl.com
University of Iowa hhovenka@law.upenn.edu
Georgetown University Dept of Economics nhm27@georgetown.edu
Thomas Overstreet
Kenneth C Baseman MiCRA Inc kb@micradc.com
Bates White Economic Consulting eric.emch@bateswhite.com
FTI Consulting susan.manning@fticonsulting.com
David M Eisenstadt* Berkeley Research Group DEisenstadt@thinkbrg.com
Yale School of Management tsnyder@yale.edu
Nicholas Hill Bates White Economic Consulting nicholas.hill@bateswhite.com
Charles River Associates smoresi@crai.com
George Korenko
Robert C Marshall
Nathan Miller
Florida
Roger D Blair
Lona Fowdur* Secretariat lfowdur@secretariat-intl.com
John H Johnson Edgeworth Economics jjohnson@edgewortheconomics.com
Leslie M Marx
Iowa Herbert Hovenkamp
University of Maryland Baltimore County brennan@umbc.edu
Henry Kahwaty* Berkeley Research Group hkahwaty@thinkbrg.com
Bates White Economic Consulting doug.bernheim@bateswhite.com
David Scheffman*
David Kaplan* Berkeley Research Group dkaplan@thinkbrg.com
The Brattle Group Loren.Smith@brattle.com
NERA Economic Consulting andrew.joskow@nera.com
Jonathan Baker Compass Lexecon jbaker@compasslexecon.com
Charles River Associates jtsai@crai.com
Gregory Vistnes Charles River Associates gvistnes@crai.com
Rahul Guha Cornerstone Research rguha@cornerstone.com
Theresa A Sullivan Compass Lexecon tsullivan@compasslexecon.com
Bates White Economic Consulting george.rozanski@bateswhite.com
The University of Chicago Law School william_landes@law.uchicago.edu
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University of Chicago- Graduate School of Business robert.gertner@chicagobooth.edu
Robin Cantor* Berkeley Research Group rcantor@thinkbrg.com
Hal J Singer
Yianis Sarafidis
Mohan Rao Epsilon Economics mrao@epsiloneconomics.com
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Edgeworth Economics gkorenko@edgewortheconomics.com
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Joseph Farrell Bates White Economic Consulting joseph.farrell@bateswhite.com
Margaret E Guerin-Calvert* FTI Consulting margaret.guerin-calvert@fticonsulting.com
Randal Heeb* FTI Consulting randal.heeb@fticonsulting.com
J Gregory Sidak
Edward Snyder
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Andrew R Dick Charles River Associates adick@crai.com
NERA Economic Consulting chetan.sanghvi@nera.com
Cleve B Tyler* Berkeley Research Group ctyler@thinkbrg.com
Keith Waehrer* Secretariat kwaehrer@secretariat-intl.com Frederick R Warren-Boulton* Berkeley Research Group rwarren-Boulton@thinkbrg.com
James Langenfeld*
Steven C Salop
Dennis W Carlton Compass Lexecon dcarlton@compasslexecon.com
Econ One Research Inc jramirez@econone.com
Chetan Sanghvi
Serge X Moresi
University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration roger.blair@warrington.ufl.edu
Eric R Emch
Charles River Associates toverstreet@crai.com
Mark Israel Compass Lexecon misrael@compasslexecon.com
B Douglas Bernheim
Michelle M Burtis Charles River Associates mburtis@crai.com
Cory Capps Bates White Economic Consulting cory.capps@bateswhite.com
John Ramirez
Charles River Associates ssalop@crai.com
Joanna Tsai
Charles River Associates alayne-farrar@crai.com
Michael Whinston
Laila Haider Charles River Associates LHaider@crai.com
David A Weiskopf Compass Lexecon dweiskopf@compasslexecon.com
Gustavo (Chip) E Bamberger Compass Lexecon gbamberger@compasslexecon.com
Michael Katz Compass Lexecon mkatz@compasslexecon.com
Michael Baye
Northwestern University School of Law wrogerson@northwestern.edu
Anne Layne-Farrar
Illinois
Bates White Economic Consulting bob.marshall@bateswhite.com
Jonathan M Orszag Compass Lexecon jorszag@compasslexecon.com
George A Rozanski
Charles River Associates ysarafidis@crai.com
Berkeley Research Group JLangenfeld@thinkbrg.com
Bates White Economic Consulting leslie.marx@bateswhite.com
Compass Lexecon mschwartz@compasslexecon.com
Bates White Economic Consulting mike.whinston@bateswhite.com
Loren Smith
Fredrick A Flyer Compass Lexecon fflyer@compasslexecon.com
Robert H Gertner
NERA Economic Consulting michael.baye@nera.com
David Argue* Secretariat dargue@secretariat-intl.com
Susan Henley Manning*
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Philip Nelson* Secretariat pnelson@secretariat-intl.com
Econ One Research Inc hsinger@econone.com
Robert Willig Compass Lexecon rwillig@compasslexecon.com
William P Rogerson
Tim Brennan
Charles River Associates kmurphy@crai.com
Criterion Economics LLC jgsidak@criterioneconomics.com
Kostis Hatzitaskos
Berkeley Research Group dscheffman@thinkbrg.com
Marius Schwartz
Cornerstone Research khatzitaskos@cornerstone.com
MIT Sloan School of Management eberndt@mit.edu
NERA Economic Consulting lauren.stiroh@nera.com
Luis Cabral
Monica Noether Charles River Associates mnoether@crai.com
Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang Compass Lexecon ewang@compasslexecon.com
University of Virginia - Dept of Economics (Senior Advisor to Cornerstone Research) elzinga@virginia.edu
University of Texas School of Law awickelgren@law.utexas.edu
Justin McCrary
Richard Schmalensee MIT rschmal@mit.edu
NERA Economic Consulting ramsey.shehadeh@nera.com
David Sibley ERS Group sibley@eco.utexas.edu
NERA Economic Consulting sumanth.addanki@nera.com
Charles River Associates jlustig@crai.com
C Scott Hemphill Columbia University School of Law hemphill@law.columbia.edu
R Glenn Hubbard Columbia Business School rgh1@columbia.edu
Harvard University (Senior Advisor to Cornerstone Research) apakes@fas.harvard.edu
Severin Borenstein Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies borenste@haas.berkeley.edu
Abraham L Wickelgren
Christopher Vellturo Quantitative Economic Solutions LLC cvellturo@qes-llc.com
The Brattle Group vanessa.zhang@brattle.com
New York University - Stern School of Business - Department of Economics luis.cabral@nyu.edu
Dov Rothman Analysis Group dov.rothman@analysisgroup.com
Jerry Hausman MIT jhausman@mit.edu
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Rosa Abrantes-Metz
Mary T Coleman Compass Lexecon mcoleman@compasslexecon.com
Robert S Pindyck MIT Sloan School of Management rpindyck@mit.edu
The Brattle Group bob.wilson@affiliate.brattle.com
NERA Economic Consulting christine.meyer@nera.com
Texas Jeffrey S Andrien Coherent Economics jeff.andrien@coherentecon.com Robert Maness Charles River Associates rmaness@crai.com
Robert W Wilson
Ariel Pakes
Louis Kaplow Harvard Law School meskridge@law.harvard.edu
Kenneth G Elzinga
Ramsey Shehadeh
Peter J Boberg
Timothy S Snail Charles River Associates tsnail@crai.com
Charles River Associates pboberg@crai.com
Matthew Evans* AlixPartners mevans@alixpartners.com
Leemore Dafny Harvard Business School leemore_dafny@hks.harvard.edu
John E Kwoka Jr Northeastern University j.kwoka@neu.edu
Ernst R Berndt
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John Van Reenen MIT vanreene@mit.edu
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Samid Hussain Cornerstone Research shussain@cornerstone.com
Christine Siegwarth Meyer
Darwin Neher Cornerstone Research dneher@cornerstone.com
The Brattle Group rosa.abrantes-metz@brattle.com
Columbia University School of Law jmccrary@law.columbia.edu
Subramaniam (Subbu) Ramanarayanan NERA Economic Consulting subbu.ramanarayanan@nera.com
Pennsylvania Aviv Nevo
Keith R Ugone Analysis Group keith.ugone@analysisgroup.com
Virginia
Vanessa Yanhua Zhang
Graeme Hunter NERA Economic Consulting graeme.hunter@nera.com
Martha S Samuelson Analysis Group martha.samuelson@analysisgroup.com
New Jersey
Lauren J Stiroh
The Wharton School and Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (Senior Adviser to Cornerstone Research) anevo@wharton.upenn.edu
George A Hay Cornell Law School gah7@cornell.edu
Sumanth Addanki
Joseph P Kalt Compass Lexecon jkalt@compasslexecon.com
Rebecca Kirk Fair Analysis Group rebecca.kirkfair@analysisgroup.com
Josh Lustig
Michael Salinger Charles River Associates msalinger@crai.com
Nicholas S Economides New York University Stern School of Business economides@stern.nyu.edu
David Evans Global Economics Group devans@globaleconomicsgroup.com
Pierre Y Cremieux Analysis Group pcremieux@analysisgroup.com
Pablo T Spiller Compass Lexecon pspiller@compasslexecon.com
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Editorial policy and selection criteria
PLAINTIFF
Nominees have been selected based on comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practitioners worldwide.
LEADING FIRMS
David Sorensen ranks as one of the go-to litigators in the market thanks to his top-notch practice, which sees him represent a range of high-profile clients.
Michael Nemelka impresses market sources with his notable experience in high-profile commercial litigation involving antitrust.
The Global Elite Thought Leaders are those individuals who received the highest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel and other market sources this year. Our research has identified them as being truly outstanding practitioners and the very best in their field.
This year, WWL shines a light on 106 leading competition plaintiff specialists. They have been selected for their experience in class action competition and antitrust matters before the highest courts in the UK, EU and USA.
Brian Ratner is a top name in the compe tition field who is well versed in complex liti gation in both US and European courts.
Brent Landau is singled out as a top name for price-fixing and monopolisation matters for clients in healthcare and transport sectors.
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP San Francisco
Global Elite Thought Leaders
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Hilary Scherrer is a prominent litigator with a wealth of experience in high-profile antitrust and financial manipulation cases.
Judith A Zahid Zelle LLP San Francisco
Michael Lehmann possesses over 40 years of experience in the antitrust arena and regu larly handles major antitrust class actions.
Roberta Liebenberg sits among the foremost antitrust specialists in the market thanks to her long-standing experience in the field.
Christopher Micheletti is a deeply expe rienced litigator who receives widespread
Daniel Berger is a top name, recom mended for his expertise in complex commercial litigation involving antitrust.
Steven Benz is an established figure in the market who frequently represents major corporations in antitrust, unfair competition and class action cases.
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Jeffrey Istvan distinguishes himself as a go-to name for complex antitrust litigation thanks to his wide-ranging experience in high-value cases.
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Michael Hausfeld is a pre-eminent prac titioner who is well renowned for his track record in monopolies, tie-ins and price fixing.
Christopher Lebsock ranks promi nently for his competition practice, receiving endorsements for his experience in numerous jurisdictions.
Fine Kaplan and Black
Megan E Jones Hausfeld LLP San Francisco
Irving Scher is an antitrust specialist who garners plaudits for his experience as lead counsel in all phases of litigation.
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Eric L Cramer Berger Montague Philadelphia Shana E Scarlett Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro Berkeley
Gerard Dever garners praise for his stellar antitrust practice spanning class actions, merger reviews and criminal matters.
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Eric B Fastiff
Hausfeld
Donald Perelman ranks highly among peers thanks to his notable track record in complex antitrust litigation.
The “incredibly talented” Megan Jones is singled out by peers as “a true leader” and is widely endorsed as “one of the very best plaintiff counsel”.
Judith Zahid is recognised by sources as a market-leading antitrust lawyer who is “very good at developing relationships that help her win cases”.
Berger Montague
praise from market commentators for his top-notch antitrust practice.
Eric Cramer impresses market respondents with his litigation expertise particularly in antitrust class actions.
Michael Guzman impresses market observers with his wide-ranging litigation experience and adept handling of high-stakes antitrust cases.
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick
WWL does not list firms, only individual lawyers. The leading firms are those in each region whose listed practitioners received the most total nominations in our research. We highlight individuals at other firms who also scored very highly in our research.
Paul Costa is regularly sought after for his experience in all stages of litigation, with expertise in price-fixing and investigations.
NORTH AMERICA
Jennifer Duncan Hackett is a wellrespected practitioner who excels in anti trust, particularly when it comes to the finan cial services sector.
Anna Morfey Hausfeld LLP London EUROPE
Nicola Boyle is a well-renowned compe tition specialist who garners praise for her work on follow-on cartel damages claims.
Belinda Hollway with Scott + Scott earns widespread endorsements for her skilful handling of cartel-related litigation, with expertise in cross-border cases.
LEADING FIRMS
Richard Koffman at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll is a market-leading litigator who impresses market sources with his “excel lent legal analysis”.
Andrew Bullion possesses “excellent business acumen” and is highlighted by peers as “very knowledgeable and experienced about cartel cases and private damages”.
Thomas Höppner is an “extremely versa tile” practitioner who is recognised as “an outstanding subject matter expert on the legal aspects of antitrust law”.
Boris Bronfentrinker from Willkie Farr & Gallagher is a highly accomplished litigator
by market respondents as “a commercially minded and thorough lawyer with the ability to successfully and efficiently progress a liti gation from beginning to end”.
Global Elite Thought Leaders
Kellie Lerner of Robins Kaplan receives widespread acclaim for her competition practice, which sees her lead numerous highvalue antitrust class actions.
Anna Morfey is held in high esteem by sources for her expertise in antitrust investi gations and cartel-related litigation.
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who excels in complex competition litigation, acting for both claimants and defendants.
Anthony Maton stands out as a marketleading litigator with over 25 years of expe rience in competition law damages across Europe.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison’s William Isaacson stands out for his top-tier work in complex class actions and major antitrust litigations.
antitrust litigation, where he has acted on a substantial number of claims.
Scott Campbell is a key figure when it comes to cartel damages cases and infringements of EU and UK competition law, particularly those with a multi-jurisdictional element.
Shana Scarlett of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro is identified by market sources as “incredibly talented” and “a true leader” when it comes to complex antitrust matters.
Anthony Maton Hausfeld LLP London
OTHER LEADING INDIVIDUALS
USA
At Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer, Gregory Arenson is a senior figure in the market who maintains a fantastic reputation when it comes to all aspects of antitrust.
From Berman Tabacco, Todd Seaver has long-standing experience representing clients in litigation from a range of industries, from pharmaceuticals to online retailers.
Belinda Hollway Scott + Scott LLP London
Eric Fastiff from Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein possesses over 25 years of expe rience in the litigation arena and is sought after by a range of clients for his in-depth competition expertise.
Hausfeld & Co
At Cuatrecasas, Paul Anthony Hitchings is a senior figure in the market who is highlighted
Labaton Sucharow’s Gregory Asciolla is renowned for his specialism in class action
Jay Himes is a key name for antitrust matters and is regularly sought after for his expertise in trial and appellate litigation.
Jeffrey Gittleman with Barrack Rodos & Bacine is a favourite among clients who praise his strong track-record working on antitrust and securities litigation.
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Peers and clients say: “Steven is among the top plaintiff-side antitrust lawyers in the “Hecountry”isasmart and creative practitioner”
Mr Saveri serves as both a court-appointed leader of complex cases and a valued member of teams operating under the leadership of others. As court-appointed lead counsel in many of these cases, he takes a personal leadership role in organ ising litigation, setting strategy, establishing and directing teams of lawyers to ensure the efficient use of resources, and maximising the talents of the litigation team to achieve results for his clients.
Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP
Mr Williams has played a lead role in many of the most prominent antitrust class cases liti gated in the US over the past decade, including In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation, In re Static Random Access Memory Litigation Precision Associates v Panalpina World Transport, In re Capacitors Antitrust Litigation, and In re Transpacific Air Transportation Litigation. Mr Williams has helped recover more than US$2 billion and has been responsible for new law, including groundbreaking decisions narrowing the scope of the Filed Rate Doctrine and permitting civil damage claims in E&J Gallo Winery v EnCana Corp, 503 F.3d 1027 (9th circuit) (2007) and Wortman v All Nippon Airways, 854 F.3d 606 (9th circuit) (2017), and a ruling that “umbrella damages” are available under California state law (County of San Mateo v CSL Ltd, 2014 US Dist. LEXIS 116342 (ND Cal (20 August 2014)).
Tel: +1 415 500 swilliams@saverilawfirm.com6800www.saverilawfirm.com
Steven F Benz
Steven N Williams
Tel: +1 415 500 jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com6800www.saverilawfirm.com
Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, 94108
Since its founding, his firm has established a successful track record. To date, its attorneys have obtained over US$4.5 billion in successful resolu tions for their clients. During this time, Mr Saveri has displayed the energy, vision, and commit ment that leadership requires. The firm serves or has served as lead counsel in In re Capacitor Antitrust Litigation, In re Titanium Dioxide Antitrust Litigation, the California Cipro cases, In re High-Tech Employee “No-Poach” Antitrust Litigation, and Global Distribution Systems Antitrust Litigation, among others.
601 California Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, 94108
“He is creative and smart”
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick
Sumner Square
Peers and clients say: “He impressed me with the breadth and depth of his skillset” “He is the type of plaintiff lawyer that defence lawyers respect and fear!”
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Tel: +1 202 326 sbenz@kellogghansen.com7929www.kellogghansen.com
“Mr Benz is a lawyer who takes and wins hard cases” California District of Columbia
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Joseph R Saveri Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP
With over 25 years of practice, Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP partner Steven Williams has handled, successfully and with distinction, all aspects of liti gation and trial in state and federal courts and in private arbitration.
Mr Williams has been named to leadership positions by federal courts throughout the USA. He has represented claimants in cases involving memory chips, pharmaceuticals, air passenger transportation, air cargo transportation, cathode ray tubes, capacitors, resistors, flash memory, lith ium-ion batteries, financial products and services, poultry, and water. He has been appointed to repre sent classes, and in non-class cases he has repre sented the Chief Justice of California, the Judicial Council of California, the Consumers Union of the United States, public pension funds, private invest ment funds, many cities and counties of California, public utilities including water districts, and indi vidual consumers.601California
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Peers and clients say: “Joe’s particular strength is an uncompromising approach to litigation that reflects great confidence from years of experience”
Mr. Benz’s noteworthy achievements include a $250 million trial settlement with injunctive relief in a Sherman Act monopolization case. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York lauded Mr. Benz as being among the “finest antitrust lawyers in the nation.” In 2017 he received the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice. He holds an AV Preeminent® MartindaleHubbell Peer Review Rating and is recognized as an antitrust “Local Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation. His successful representations of clients have included: AT&T, Verizon, Veeva Systems Inc., Dial Corporation, Henkel Consumer Goods Inc., Kraft Heinz Foods Co., H.J. Heinz Co. L.P., Foster Poultry Farms, Smithfield Foods, Inc., HP Hood LLC, BEF Foods Inc., Spectrum Brands, Inc., Studio Spectrum, Inc., and Ritz Camera & Image, LLC. Mr. Benz is a frequent conference speaker on complex civil litigation topics.
1615 M Street, NW Suite 400 Washington, 20036
Joseph Saveri founded the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP in 2012. The firm specialises in antitrust law and complex civil and class action litigation in federal and state courts across the USA, and it seeks to expand into international venues in the future.With over 30 years of civil litigation experience, Mr Saveri has handled all phases of litigation. His cases have involved numerous industries including banking and financial services, insurance, energy, pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, computer and software, travel and transportation, paper products, cosmetics, and consumer electronics. Mr Saveri has established himself as one of the coun try’s top litigators in the antitrust field by repre senting entrepreneurs, individuals, consumers, small business owners, public officials, and heads of corporations negatively affected by anticompet itive monopolistic business practices.
Steven F. Benz is a partner at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C. in Washington, DC. An award-winning attorney with thirty years of litigation experience, Mr. Benz has served as counsel of record in more than 140 litigated cases, trials, and appeals and represents clients on both the plaintiff and defense side. He focuses his prac tice on prosecuting and defending high-profile monopolization, price fixing, and class action cases involving competition law and intellectual prop erty rights. Mr. Benz currently represents Veeva Systems Inc. in its data and software monopoli zation claims against IQVIA Incorporated and IMS Software Services Ltd., in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
William J Blechman
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Kenny Nachwalter PA rarnold@kennynachwalter.com
Guido Saveri Saveri & Saveri, Inc guido@saveri.com
DIRECTORY
Peter Willis
Susman Godfrey L.L.P. mseltzer@susmangodfrey.com
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP sgant@bsfllp.com
Belinda Hollway
W Stephen Cannon
Cornerstone Law Group bbrosnahan@cornerlaw.com
Steven F Benz*
Minnesota
Christopher T Micheletti Zelle LLP cmicheletti@zelle.com
Anna Morfey
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC rkoffman@cohenmilstein.com
Eric B Fastiff
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick mnemelka@khhte.com
William A Isaacson
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Hausfeld Rechtsanwälte LLP thomas.hoppner@hausfeld.com
Richard A Koffman
Michael J Freed
Hausfeld & Co LLP nboyle@hausfeld.com
Burns Charest LLP ccormier@burnscharest.com
Kenny Nachwalter PA wblechman@kennynachwalter.com
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC jdominguez@cohenmilstein.com
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick mguzman@khhte.com
Shana E Scarlett
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP wbernstein@lchb.com
Illinois
Brian A Ratner
Daniel A Small
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro jefff@hbsslaw.com
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP bglackin@lchb.com
Hausfeld & Co LLP abullion@hausfeld.com
Gustafson Gluek PLLC kgluek@gustafsongluek.com
Lesley Hannah
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP wisaacson@paulweiss.com
Scott + Scott Europe LLP bhollway@scott-scott.com
Joseph J Tabacco Berman Tabacco jtabacco@bermantabacco.com
Hausfeld LLP hscherrer@hausfeldllp.com
An asterisk denotes practitioners who have profiles in the preceding pages.
Boris Bronfentrinker
Nominees have been selected based on independentcomprehensive,surveywork with both general counsel and private practitioners worldwide.
Hausfeld & Co LLP lhannah@hausfeld.com
Anthony Maton
Brendan P Glackin
Steven A Kanner
Douglas A Millen
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP kenny.henderson@cms-cmno.com
William Bernstein
Hausfeld & Co LLP lcraig@hausfeld.com
Joseph W Cotchett
Christopher T Heffelfinger Berman Tabacco cheffelfinger@bermandevalerio.com
Hausfeld & Co LLP amorfey@hausfeld.com
Michael P Lehmann Hausfeld LLP mlehmann@hausfeld.com
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick sbenz@kellogghansen.com
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC bjohnson@cohenmilstein.com
R Bruce Holcomb
ThomasGermanyHöppner
Andrew Bullion
Bird & Bird LLP peter.willis@twobirds.com
Pearson Simon & Warshaw LLP bsimon@pswplaw.com
District of Columbia
Francis Scarpulla Scarpulla Law fos@scarpullalaw.com
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC bbrown@cohenmilstein.com
USA
Michael N Nemelka
Marc M Seltzer
Joseph R Saveri*
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Christopher J Cormier
Florida
Heins Mills & Olson PLC vesades@heinsmills.com
R Alexander Saveri Saveri & Saveri, Inc rick@saveri.com
Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy jcotchett@cpmlegal.com
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC dsmall@cohenmilstein.com
Brian P Brosnahan
Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC skanner@fklmlaw.com
Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP borisbronfentrinker@quinnemanuel.com
Berman Tabacco tseaver@bermandevalerio.com
Benjamin D Brown
Constantine Cannon LLP scannon@constantinecannon.com
Adams Holcomb LLP holcomb@adamsholcomb.com
Michael D Hausfeld
Nicola Chesaites
Karla Gluek
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP dharvey@lchb.com
Kenny Henderson
Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP swilliams@saverilawfirm.com
Vincent Esades
Bruce L Simon
Hausfeld & Co LLP scampbell@hausfeld.com
Steven N Williams*
Hausfeld LLP mhausfeld@hausfeldllp.com
Manuel J Dominguez
Tim Brown
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP efastiff@lchb.com
PaulSpainAnthony Hitchings
Furth Salem Mason & Li LLP dmason@zelle.com
Cuatrecasas paul.hitchings@cuatrecasas.com
California
Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com
Hilary K Scherrer
Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC dmillen@fklmlaw.com
Brent W Johnson
Jennifer Duncan Hackett Zelle LLP jhackett@zelle.com
Dean M Harvey
Hausfeld & Co LLP tbrown@hausfeld.com
NicolaEnglandBoyle
Scott E Gant
Christopher L Lebsock Hausfeld LLP clebsock@hausfeld.com
Hausfeld LLP bratner@hausfeldllp.com
Hausfeld & Co LLP amaton@hausfeldllp.com
Jeff D Friedman
Megan E Jones Hausfeld LLP mjones@hausfeldllp.com
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro shanas@hbsslaw.com
Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC mfreed@fklmlaw.com
Richard Alan Arnold
Lianne Craig
Michael J Guzman
Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP nchesaites@willkie.com
Daniel S Mason
Judith A Zahid Zelle LLP jzahid@zelle.com
David E Kovel Kirby McInerney LLP dkovel@kmllp.com
Sylvia M Sokol Scott + Scott LLP ssokol@scott-scott.com
Matthew L Cantor Constantine Cannon LLP mcantor@constantinecannon.com
New Mexico
David Boies
Linda P Nussbaum Nussbaum Law Group P.C. lnussbaum@nussbaumpc.com
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC drichards@cohenmilstein.com
Paul Costa Fine Kaplan and Black pcosta@finekaplan.com
Washington Steve W Berman Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro steve@hbsslaw.com
Pennsylvania Daniel Berger Berger Montague danberger@bm.net
Texas Barry Barnett Susman Godfrey LLP bbarnett@susmangodfrey.com Warren T Burns Burns Charest LLP wburns@burnscharest.com Terrell W Oxford Susman Godfrey LLP toxford@susmangodfrey.com James T Southwick Susman Godfrey LLP jsouthwick@susmangodfrey.com
Daniel C. Hedlund
Renae D Steiner
Robert N Kaplan
Constantine Cannon LLP jshinder@constantinecannon.com
Jeffrey J Corrigan Spector Roseman & Kodroff, P.C. jcorrigan@srkw-law.com
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP steigolson@quinnemanuel.com
Gordon Schnell
Brent W Landau Hausfeld LLP blandau@hausfeld.com
Eric L Cramer
Irving Scher Hausfeld LLP ischer@hausfeld.com
Jay Himes
Howard J Sedran Levin Sedran & Berman hsedran@lfsblaw.com
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Jeffrey Kodroff
Philip J Iovieno Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP philip.iovieno@cwt.com
Constantine Cannon LLP gschnell@constantinecannon.com
Donald L Perelman Fine Kaplan and Black dperelman@finekaplan.com
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP dboies@bsfllp.com
David F Sorensen Berger Montague dsorensen@bm.net
Steig D Olson
Jeffrey I Shinder
Jeffrey B Gittleman Barrack Rodos & Bacine jgittleman@barrack.com
David R Scott
Daniel Gustafson
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Spector Roseman & Kodroff, P.C. jkodroff@srkw-law.com
Stephen Neuwirth
Labaton Sucharow LLP jhimes@labaton.com
Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward PA jg@fbdlaw.com
Lovell Stewart Halebian Jacobson clovell@lshllp.com
Jeffrey S Istvan Fine Kaplan and Black mail@finekaplan.com
Heins Mills & Olson PLC rsteiner@heinsmills.com
New York
Christopher Lovell
Joe Goldberg
Gregory K Arenson Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP garenson@kaplanfox.com
Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP rkaplan@kaplanfox.com
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP stephenneuwirth@quinnemanuel.com
J Douglas Richards
Daniel Hume Kirby McInerney LLP dhume@kmllp.com
Scott + Scott LLP david.scott@scott-scott.com
Gregory Asciolla Labaton Sucharow LLP gasciolla@labaton.com
Eugene A Spector Spector Roseman & Kodroff, P.C. espector@srkattorneys.com
Gustafson Gluek PLLC dhedlund@gustafsongluek.com
Gustafson Gluek PLLC dgustafson@gustafsongluek.com
Gerard A Dever Fine Kaplan and Black gdever@finekaplan.com
Roberta D Liebenberg Fine Kaplan and Black rliebenberg@finekaplan.com
Kellie Lerner Robins Kaplan LLP klerner@robinskaplan.com
Berger Montague ecramer@bm.net
Nominees have been selected based on comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practitioners worldwide.
STATE AID
Editorial policy and selection criteria
Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.
At Latham & Watkins, Elisabetta Righini receives widespread recommendations for her first-rate handling of state aid disputes
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This year, WWL presents 122 impressive competition lawyers, revered in the market for their in-depth expertise in the full array of state aid issues.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Brussels
Philipp Werner Jones Day Brussels
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Global Elite Thought Leaders
“Statewith.”
aid guru” Jacques Derenne at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton is renowned for his first-rate practice and is hailed as “the expert in Brussels for state aid”.
Massimo Merola BonelliErede Brussels
Philipp Werner with Jones Day is lauded as “a brilliant lawyer” who comes “recommended especially for complex state aid cases.”
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LEADING INDIVIDUALS
spanning investigations and litigation before the European courts.
Latham & Watkins LLP Brussels
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Elisabetta Righini
Andreas von Bonin
Kai Struckmann Deloitte Legal Brussels
Deloitte Legal’s Kai Struckmann holds “an excellent reputation in the field of state aid law” thanks to his “very analytical yet prac tical Fromapproach”.Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Andreas von Bonin is praised as “one of the best state aid lawyers in Europe” and is described as “a star” in the field.
WWL does not list firms, only individual lawyers. The leading firms are those in each region whose listed practitioners received the most total nominations in our research. We highlight individuals at other firms who also scored very highly in our research.
BRUSSELS
Jacques Derenne Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Brussels
The Global Elite Thought Leaders are those individuals who received the highest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel and other market sources this year. Our research has identified them as being truly outstanding practitioners and the very best in their field.
Massimo Merola from BonnelliErede comes acclaimed as “a big name in state aid law” with peers adding, “He is a pleasure to work
Ulrich Soltész Gleiss Lutz Brussels
Ulrich Soltész of Gleiss Lutz is “highly experienced in the field of state aid law”, according to peers and clients who highlight his “outstanding legal expertise and profound understanding of economic and business issues”.
Harald Weiss is heralded as “a true expert in state aid issues” who is “detail oriented, commercially minded and highly responsive”.
Max Klasse from Blomstein is “a top address for all competition matters in Germany”, especially those within the technology and online sectors.
Hengeler Mueller’s Jan Bonhage is wellknown in the state aid field, where he repre sents clients in proceedings before the EU courts and European Commission.
Hugues Calvet is “a go-to in Paris” owing to his long-standing experience in complex issues of European and French mergers.
Germany
James Webber at Shearman & Sterling is recognised for being “an excellent lawyer with very good communication skills” and “an almost unrivalled depth of knowledge and experience in state aid matters”.
France
Isabel Taylor Slaughter and May London LONDON
EMEA (EXCLUDING BRUSSELS & LONDON)
Global Elite Thought Leaders
The “excellent” Thomas Lübbig at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has a formidable
Gian Michele Roberti with Chiomenti is “a highly experience lawyer” with “a great reputation in the market” and “a particular strength in EU law”.
Hanno Wollmann at Schoenherr Attorneys At Law is celebrated as “the most eminent practitioner in Austrian state aid law – full stop” with “very broad experience”.
Arjan Kleinhout at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek comes widely commended as
Thomas Lübbig Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Berlin
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Conor Quigley QC from Serle Court is acclaimed as “unbeatable in the field of state aid” and is “very well known” in the UK and EU markets.
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Hanno Wollmann Schoenherr Attorneys At Law Vienna
Global Elite Thought Leaders
Yelena Trifounovitch with Bredin Prat excels at “dealing with several high-profile and complex cases simultaneously”, with peers adding: “She is reactive and very smart.”
Netherlands
Onno Brouwer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer combines his “great legal mind” with his in-depth knowledge of EU and Dutch competition law to assist and represent clients in state aid issues.
Spain
Patricia Vidal at Uría Menéndez possesses a deep knowledge of the state aid discipline and is described in the market as “very dedicated” and “energetic”.
At Slaughter and May, Isabel Taylor is widely admired as “an extremely bright practitioner”
George Peretz QC Monckton Chambers London
Italy
who is “impressive in her knowledge and analysis”.
Austria
Hengeler Mueller Berlin
Yelena Trifounovitch Bredin Prat Paris
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Johannes Barbist from BINDER GRÖSSWANG Rechtsanwälte is “a go-to lawyer in Austria” who is further highlighted as “very pragmatic and energetic”.
Jan Bonhage
“greatly experienced in cases involving government-owned companies in regulated sectors”.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
reputation as “a first-class cartel and state aid lawyer”, regularly representing companies and state authorities before the courts of the EU.
George Peretz QC at Monckton Chambers earns a plethora of positive endorsements for his “eloquence and clarity”, with commentators “thinking highly of him as a state aid lawyer”.
“Conor is a great lawyer and unbeatable in the field of state aid”
Franz Hoffet Homburger
Conor is particularly experienced in fiscal State aid, i.e. the interaction between corporate taxa tion and State aid. He has advised governments, multinational groups, leading solicitors and all the Big 4 accountancy firms on fiscal State aid issues, in particular those involving windfall taxes, tax rulings, advance pricing agreements, CFCs, double taxation agreements and other matters that are currently under investigation by the European Commission and Courts. He is counsel for several multinational groups in cases before the EU Courts challenging Commission fiscal State aid decisions, including the Group Financing Exemption for UK CFC’s. He has also written widely in various tax publications on fiscal State aid, including a chapter in Taxation Implications of Brexit (Bloomsbury, 2021, ed. Saccardo).Conorislisted as an arbitrator in the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre and has been an ad hoc arbitrator. He frequently acts as an expert witness on State aid issues in international arbitrations. Conoralso accepts instructions on compe tition, procurement and international trade law. He is general editor of Hong Kong Competition Law (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2016) (which was praised in an ECLR review as having the status of an instant classic).
James’s competition practice is focused on merger control, joint ventures, cooperative agree ments and antitrust litigation. He also has a signif icant practice in subsidy control / State aid and is consistently rated as one of Europe’s leading lawyers in this field.
”He is fantastic and his communication skills are second to none”
Tel: +41 43 222 10 franz.hoffet@homburger.ch00www.homburger.ch
James Webber Shearman & Sterling LLP
Peers and clients say: “He is a key lawyer for competition work”
6 New cquigley@serlecourt.co.ukTel:London,Lincoln’sSquareInnWC2A3QS+442072426105www.serlecourt.co.uk
James is listed as one of The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” 2022, the top 100 lawyers in any field and of any seniority selected for excellence within and relevance to the legal profession in the UK.
”James is a strategic and creative thinker, particularly when it comes to problem solving”
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Conor Quigley QC of Serle Court, a leading barris ters chambers in London, is widely recognised for his outstanding expertise in EU State aid and UK subsidies law. He is the author of the leading textbook EU State Aid Law and Policy (including UK Subsidy Control) (Hart/Bloomsbury, 4th edition 2022). He is a Visiting Professor at the LSE and Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Institute of European and Comparative Law.
Peers and clients say: “He is very well known in the competition space”
Franz Hoffet is a partner of Homburger’s competi tion and regulatory teams. He has extensive experi ence in all areas of Swiss and European competition law, ranging from merger control to administrative and civil antitrust litigation.
He represents a wide range of companies and trade associations in proceedings before the Swiss competition authorities, the European Commission and in civil courts and arbitration proceedings. He also advises clients on compliance matters of Swiss and European competition law. Other areas of prac tice include regulated markets (in particular, health and pharma, telecommunications and media, energy, infrastructure and transport), international trade and public procurement. Franz Hoffet is also a member of Homburger’s corporate/M&A team as well as its white-collar/investigations team.
”Franz has thorough legal knowledge and the ability to contextualise his advice in the wider context of our company’s needs”
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9 Appold Street London, EC2A 2AP Tel: +44 20 7655 james.webber@shearman.com5691www.shearman.com
Conor Quigley QC Serle Court
Franz Hoffet is chairman of the Swiss Bar Association’s committee on competition law. He has published several articles on antitrust matters and is a co-editor and co-author of one of the leading treatises on Swiss competition
James Webber is a partner in the Antitrust practice in Brussels and London.
Peers and clients say: “James is an excel lent state aid lawyer”
Olaf Koktvedgaard Bruun & Hjejle oko@bruunhjejle.dk
Anna Lyle-Smythe Slaughter and May anna.lyle-smythe@slaughterandmay.com Massimo Merola
Michael Honoré
ChristianEnglandAhlborn
RenatoBelgiumAntonini
FratiniVergano - European Lawyers a.fratini@fratinivergano.eu
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP tmuelleribold@cgsh.com
Nicholas Forwood QC Brick Court Chambers forwood@brickcourt.co.uk
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José Luis Buendía Garrigues SLP jose.luis.buendia@garrigues.com
Hein Hobbelen Bird & Bird hein.hobbelen@twobirds.com
BINDER GRÖSSWANG Rechtsanwälte GmbH barbist@bindergroesswang.at Günter Bauer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP frank.montag@freshfields.com
Honoré, Fallesen & Andersen mih@honorefallesen.dk
Christian F Schneider bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte GmbH christian.schneider@bpv-huegel.com
Peter Thyri
Lode Van Den Hende
Wolf Theiss guenter.bauer@wolftheiss.com
RassDenmarkHoldgaard
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Schoenherr Attorneys At Law h.wollmann@schoenherr.at
CERHA HEMPEL Rechtsanwälte GmbH hans.kristoferitsch@chsh.com
bernard.van_de_walle@linklaters.com
Valérie Landes
Kai Struckmann
Linklaters LLP christian.ahlborn@linklaters.com
Bredin Prat valerielandes@bredinprat.com
Annabelle Lepièce
Hanno Wollmann
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP kyriakos.fountoukakos@hsf.com
BonelliErede massimo.merola@belex.com
CMS Hasche Sigle michael.bauer@cms-hs.com
Nominees have been selected based on independentcomprehensive,surveywork with both general counsel and private practitioners worldwide.
Johan Ysewyn Covington & Burling LLP jysewyn@cov.com
Kammeradvokaten Advokatfirmaet Poul Schmith rho@kammeradvokaten.dk
Steptoe & Johnson LLP rantonini@steptoe.com
Deloitte Legal kstruckmann@deloitte.com Dimitris Vallindas
Czech Republic
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP rklotz@sheppardmullin.com
Frank Montag
Hans Gilliams Eubelius hans.gilliams@eubelius.com
JochenAustriaAnweiler
Heinrich Kühnert
Bernard van de Walle de Ghelcke Linklaters LLP
Pierre Honoré Bredin Prat pierrehonore@bredinprat.com Helmut Janssen Luther helmut.janssen@luther-lawfirm.com
Kapellmann und Partner Rechtsanwälte robin.vanderhout@kapellmann.de Andreas von Bonin
Radovan Kubáč Nedelka Kubáč advokáti sro kubac@nklegal.eu
Bertold Bar Bouyssiere DLA Piper UK LLP bertold.bar-bouyssiere@dlapiper.com
Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo Garrigues SLP alfonso.lamadrid@garrigues.com
Gerhard Fussenegger bpv Hugel Rechtsanwalte GmbH gerhard.fussenegger@bpv-huegel.com
Till Müller-Ibold
Harald Weiss Gleiss Lutz harald.weiss@gleisslutz.com
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP awinckler@cgsh.com
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP lode.vandenhende@hsf.com
Aidan Robertson QC Brick Court Chambers aidan.robertson@brickcourt.co.uk
Peter Thyri Attorneys at Law peter.thyri@thyri.eu
Isabelle Innerhofer
Charlotte Breuvart
Annette Luise Schild Antitrust Law Schild annette.schild@alschild.com Ulrich Soltész Gleiss Lutz ulrich.soltesz@gleisslutz.com
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte King & Spalding LLP scisnaldeugarte@kslaw.com
CMS DeBacker annabelle.lepiece@cms-db.com
Sven B Völcker
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP andreas.vonbonin@freshfields.com
Michael Bauer
Luc Gyselen Arnold & Porter luc.gyselen@arnoldporter.com Stéphane Hautbourg Gide Loyrette Nouel AARPI hautbourg@gide.com
DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH heinrich.kuehnert@dorda.at
François Charles Laprévote Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP fclaprevote@cgsh.com
Latham & Watkins LLP elisabetta.righini@lw.com
Robert Klotz
Latham & Watkins LLP sven.voelcker@lw.com
Jones Day cbreuvart@jonesday.com
George Peretz QC Monckton Chambers gperetz@monckton.com
Baker McKenzie CVBA/SCRL nina.niejahr@bakermckenzie.com Hans-Jörg Niemeyer Hengeler Mueller hans-joerg.niemeyer@hengeler.com Elisabetta Righini
Jacques Derenne Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP jderenne@sheppardmullin.com
Natura Gracia Linklaters LLP natura.gracia@linklaters.com
Slaughter and May claire.jeffs@slaughterandmay.com
Claire Jeffs
Omar Diaz BonelliErede omar.diaz@belex.com
Andreas Bartosch Bartosch EU Law andreas.bartosch@eurojura.be
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Eisenberger & Herzog j.anweiler@eh.at Johannes Barbist
Edurne Navarro Varona Uría Menéndez edurne.navarro@uria.com
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP dvallindas@sheppardmullin.com
Conor Quigley QC* Serle Court cquigley@serlecourt.co.uk
Kyriakos Fountoukakos
BINDER GRÖSSWANG Rechtsanwälte GmbH innerhofer@bindergroesswang.at Hans Kristoferitsch
Jose Rivas Bird & Bird jose.rivas@twobirds.com
An asterisk denotes practitioners who have profiles in the preceding pages.
Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.
Antoine Winckler
Philipp Werner Jones Day pwerner@jonesday.com
Alessandra Fratini
Robin van der Hout
Nina Niejahr
Julius Budde
D&B David si Baias SCA sorin.david@david-baias.ro Georgeta Dinu Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen SCA georgeta.dinu@nndkp.ro Raluca Vasilache Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii raluca.vasilache@tuca.ro Livia Zamfiropol DLA Piper LLP livia.zamfiropol@dlapiper.com
Rizza
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP onno.brouwer@freshfields.com Cees T Dekker Nysingh advocaten–notarissen c.t.dekker@nysingh.nl Arjan Kleinhout
OlivierFranceBillard
Thorsten Mäger
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek NV arjan.kleinhout@debrauw.com
Hengeler Mueller julius.budde@hengeler.com
Zurich
Hong Kong
alexander.rose@dwf.law
Igor Simic Bredin Prat igorsimic@bredinprat.com
Chatham Partners marco.nunez@chatham.partners Gabriele Quardt
Müller-Wrede & Partner Rechtsanwälte quardt@mwp-berlin.de
Gian Michele Roberti Chiomenti gianmichele.roberti@chiomenti.net
Rhodri Thompson QC Matrix Chambers rhodrithompson@matrixlaw.co.uk
Thomas Lübbig
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP thomas.luebbig@freshfields.com
Erik Pijnacker Hordijk Pels Rijcken & Droogleever Fortuijn erik.pijnackerhordijk@pelsrijcken.nl
Switzerland
Marie-Cécile Rameau
Clifford Chance Europe LLP david.tayar@cliffordchance.com
Thomas Sebastian Monckton Chambers tsebastien@monckton.com
Patrick Horan Arthur Cox LLP patrick.horan@arthurcox.com
Hengeler Mueller jan.bonhage@hengeler.com
Alexander Rose
Ulrich Karpenstein
Redeker Sellner Dahs karpenstein@redeker.de
Marco Núñez Müller
jacques-philippe.gunther@lw.com Jérôme Philippe
Hengeler Mueller thorsten.maeger@hengeler.com Matthias Nordmann Dentons Europe LLP matthias.nordmann@dentons.com
Isabel Taylor Slaughter and May isabel.taylor@slaughterandmay.com
Hugues Calvet
Bredin Prat mariececilerameau@bredinprat.com
Antoine Gosset Grainville BDGS Associés gosset-grainville@bdgs-associes.com
David Tayar
Ulrich Denzel Gleiss Lutz ulrich.denzel@gleisslutz.com
Uría Menéndez jaime.folguera@uria.com Patricia Vidal Uría Menéndez patricia.vidal@uria.com
Helen Kelly Matheson helen.kelly@matheson.com Alan McCarthy A&L Goodbody amc@algoodbody.com
huguescalvet@bredinprat.com
Natalie Yeung Slaughter and May natalie.yeung@slaughterandmay.com
Vincent Power A&L Goodbody vpower@algoodbody.ie
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP deirdre.trapp@freshfields.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP jerome.philippe@freshfields.com
James Webber* Shearman & Sterling LLP james.webber@shearman.com
OddNorwayStemsrud
Advokatfirmaet Grette AS odst@grette.no
OnnoNetherlandsBrouwer
Moniz Morais Leitão cmoniz@mlgts.pt Carlos Pinto Correia Linklaters carlos.correia@linklaters.com Philipp Melcher Morais Leitão pmelcher@mlgts.pt
Bredin Prat olivierbillard@bredinprat.com
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Steven Verschuur Osborne Clarke steven.verschuur@osborneclarke.com Rein Wesseling Stibbe rein.wesseling@stibbe.com Gerard van der Wal Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh g.vanderwal@windtlegal.com
GiulioItalyCesare
Max Klasse Blomstein max.klasse@blomstein.com
Bredin Prat
Jörg Witting Bird & Bird LLP joerg.witting@twobirds.com
JanGermanyBonhage
Deirdre Trapp
Yelena Trifounovitch Bredin Prat yelenatrifounovitch@bredinprat.com
JaimeSpainFolguera
McCann FitzGerald philip.andrews@mccannfitzgerald.ie Anna-Marie Curran A&L Goodbody amcurran@algoodbody.com
SorinRomaniaDavid
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP crizza@cgsh.com
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This year’s Future Leaders chapter highlights 281 partners and 200 non-partners aged 45 and under. They have been carefully selected for their substantial competition expertise and experience in advising and representing clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious matters.
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With more than two decades of expe rience, Dieter Paemen enjoys a stellar reputation advising clients on all aspects of European and Belgium competition law.
Norton Rose Fulbright
Market commentators note Michele Davis “stands head and shoulders above lawyers of her generation” for her outstanding competition law practice in merger control and foreign investment.
to provide clear, and practical advice” on complex state aid and competition law.
DLA SeminPiperOearns substantive recommenda tions as a competition law specialist. He advises clients on complex M&A transac tions and multijurisdictional merger control proceedings.Peerscommend Joaquín Hervada as an “experienced lawyer with solid knowledge in competition law” offering a client-orientated approach.
Maria Dreher has built up an impres sive competition law practice and is “heavily entrenched into ESG and the interplay with antitrust”.
Peers and clients commend Stephen Whitfield at Travers Smith for his “deep knowledge of complex merger cases and high-profile antitrust investigations”.
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Eric Paroche is an accomplished compe tition practitioner with a wealth of experience in public procurement and state aid.
Respondents commend Eisenberger & Herzog’s Judith Feldner as an “indus trious, expert on all details of a case” and is “extremely good in merger control”.
At Gleiss Lutz, observers herald Christian von Köckritz as “extremely efficient at managing complex Phase II mergers” and is “very skilled at competition law matters in follow-on damages claim”.
Strati Sakellariou-Witt at White & Case receives praise for her experience in a wide range of international competition matters.
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The “fantastic lawyer” Clemens York von Wartenburg at Dechert “is very practical and provides efficient and sound advice to his clients” and “is an extremely sharp and busi ness-oriented lawyer who clearly understands legal matters from a business perspective”.
wins high praise for advising domestic and international clients on complex commercial and competition litigation.
Market sources note Attila Borsos at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is “a truly talented transac tional lawyer” and enjoys a formidable repu tation in the Belgium market.
Market sources call Christian Ritz “a brilliant lawyer with impressive experience in cartel litigation and antitrust compliance”.
Paul Johnson has built up an impressive competition law practice with “an incredible legal knowledge on competition law in a broad range of jurisdictions”.
Hogan Lovells International
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The “excellent attorney” Tone Oeyen enjoys a fantastic reputation in the market, thanks to his strategic advice on cross-border merger control and cartel enforcement.
Van Bael & Bellis’ Alex Stratakis is regarded as “very responsive, decisive, and able
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Caroline Thomas is highly recommended for her leading practice in handling high-profile cartel investigations and litigation.
Johan Van Acker with Van Bael & Bellis wins high praise for his immense expertise in all aspects of competition law, including high-profile EU merger control cases, among other matters.
Peter Harper from Eversheds Sutherland is commended by peers for his deep expertise in assisting clients on a range of antitrust matters including merger control and joint
Joost Haans is a distinguished practi tioner lauded for his substantial experience in a variety of competition law matters from worldwide merger proceedings to cartel proceedings.The”exceptional competition lawyer”
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comes highly recom mended for his adept handling of merger control and state aid control.
Marcin Trepka is praised by market sources for his “impressive litigation skills” and “ability to explain complicated legal issues in a simple way”.
Matthew Sinclair-Thomson at Kirkland & Ellis International is credited for his “vast understanding of the M&A regulatory regimes in several jurisdictions” with a “thoughtful and commercial approach”.
Étienne Renaudeau with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is recognised for being a “bright and skilful competition lawyer” specialising in merger control and litigation.
Sibel Yilmaz has experience advising clients in the healthcare and technology sectors on a variety of competition law and foreign investment issues.
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The “excellent competition lawyer” Tim Schaper is a well-regarded practitioner with impeccable knowledge of German and European competition law.
Andrea Pomana from Advant Beiten Burkhardt comes highly recommended by peers and clients alike for her competition practice, she “has an excellent grasp of the issues and gets to the heart of the legal problems”.
AlEnglandMangan with Addleshaw Goddard is a distinguished practitioner lauded for his “great technical expertise and is particularly strong on EU and UK merger control”.
Michael Mayr at Michael Mayr Rechtsanwalt is widely praised for his well-established competition practice and ability to “grasp the specifics of a case”.
Peers applaud Scott McInnes of Bird & Bird for his experience and expertise in payments regu lation and competition law, described as “one of the few real experts in the payment industry”.
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Theventures.“excellent competition lawyer” Patrick Harrison at Sidley Austin impresses peers and clients alike with his “solution orientated” approach.
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The “fantastic” Peter Broadhurst at Simmons & Simmons focuses his first-rate competition practice on advising domestic and European clients on transactions and complex multijurisdictional merger control matters.
Stefanie Budde Hengeler Mueller Düsseldorf
Thomas at Racine has built up an impressive competition law practice with a “very deep knowledge of regulated sectors”.
Market sources applaud Juan Passás for his “strong focus on abuse of dominance
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Erik Venot is a top-tier competition prac titioner highlighted for his “excellent coordi nation with foreign counsel for global merger filings”.
Niddam-Drouas Avocats’ Marie de Drouas is described by peers as an “impressive lawyer whose practice covers all fields of competition law” assisting both plaintiffs and defendants.
Anthemis Economou Latham & Watkins LLP Brussels
The “great strategist” Thomas McGrath is a “highly-skilled legal professional with extremely broad practical experience”.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
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with Lakatos Köves and Partners receives plaudits for his “great communi cation skills” and is widely respected as a “bright and thorough lawyer” in the compe tition sphere.
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Matthew Yeowart Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP London
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enforcement and competition issues in distri bution systems”.
At Dentons, René Grafunder is recognised as a “specialist in merger control, antitrust
The “fantastic lawyer” Berend Reuder at Stek is an accomplished competition practitioner with a wealth of experience in merger control in the healthcare and tech space.
Faustine Viala at Wilkie Farr & Gallagher stands out for her in-depth knowledge and strategic handling of all aspects of compe tition law.
Peers commend Eram Khan for her “excel lent depth and breadth of knowledge in competition and antitrust law issues across the UK, EU and other jurisdictions”.
The “excellent competition lawyer” Ingo Klauß is singled out for his superb work in complex investigations related to competition compliance.
and cartel investigations” and merger control work.
Thomas Paul with Hengeler Mueller is highly recommended for his skilful handling of cartel damages among other dispute reso lution-related matters.
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Nicolas Zacharie is celebrated for his experience and expertise in advising clients on a range of complex cross-border compe tition-related issues.
Kaan Gürer is a favourite among peers and clients in the competition space, who say he is “extremely dedicated and an excellent lawyer”.
Séverine Schrameck of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is a top-tier lawyer with experi ence managing multijurisdictional transac tions, complex merger control and state aid.
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Godö of BOKWALL RISLUND receives glowing praise as “the best compe tition lawyer that I have worked with in Sweden” due his strategic advice on trans actional matters, agreements and abuse of dominance.
Fabian Koch of CORE Attorneys comes highly recommended by peers and clients for his “dedication to the cases and crea tivity in presenting them to the competition commission”.
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at Wenger Vieli is “enthusi astic about competition law” with a “dynamic and first-hand approach”. Market sources singled him out as a “leader of the next generation”.
Lukas Rengier Allen & Overy LLP Hamburg
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FlorisNetherlandstenHave with Stibbe is a “versatile and excellent competition lawyer” with experi ence advising clients in the financial and pharmaceutical sector on issues concerning litigation and cartel investigations, among others.
Katharina Bongs with Van Bael & Bellis is a “recognised and well-respected lawyer” with “strong expertise in cartel proceedings".
At Baker McKenzie, Jonas Brückner impresses market commentators with his “handling of complex cartel matters
cooperation in multi-jurisdictional merger controlMarketmatters”.sources note Gian Diego Pini is “one of the brightest antitrust lawyers” in Belgium “with impressive ability to sort out complex matters in a very efficient way”.
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Omar Diaz from BonelliErede stands out for her in-depth knowledge and strategic handling of all aspects of international
Italy
Iris Benedikt-Buckenleib from Gleiss Lutz ranks highly among peers for her encyclo paedic knowledge and “focus on delivering the best outcome to the client”.
Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners’ Fabiana Campopiano receives glowing praise as “a rising star in Italy” thanks to her strategic advice on litigious matters in the competition sphere.
competition law in the energy and transport fields.
Jan Jeram is deemed by observers as a “great communicator” who is “very expe rienced in all areas of EU competition law” with an “extremely thorough and diligent” approach.
Allen & Overy
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Stéphane Dionnet is “very efficient, precise and has a good ability to communi cate” complex competition law notions.
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Clients praise Ines Bodenstein at Gleiss Lutz for her “quick grasp of complex issues” and her practical approach to “keeping the client’s wider strategic objectives in mind”.
Clemens Ziegler at Ziegler State Aid Antitrust has built up an impressive competition law practice, described by respondents as an “incredibly good state aid expert”.
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Murray Reeve comes highly recom mended for his adept handling of M&A trans actions with a “client-focused approach”.
Christoph Wilken is celebrated for his experience and vast expertise in advising clients on day-to-day competition-related issues.
for international clients” and is deemed a “top-tier legal adviser in Germany”.
Annalisa Tosdevin is widely praised for her well-established practice, which spans the gamut of competition law matters.
ÁkosHungaryKovách at Hogan Lovells possesses “exceptional knowledge on antitrust issues particularly merger control procedures in Hungary”.
Thorsten Goetz is “very responsive” and impresses sources with his “excellent
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Economou of Latham & Watkins ranks highly among peers thanks to her “exceptional knowledge of EU competition law”.
and up-and-coming star” Matthew Yeowart at Davis Polk & Wardwell impresses market commentators with his excellent merger control expertise. He is widely considered an “insightful and knowledgeable competition lawyer”.
Francesca Miotto holds “impressive analytical skills and the ability to quickly get to the core of any antitrust problem”.
Mariusz Motyka-Mojkowski is hailed a “rising star” who “is always providing busi ness-oriented and client-friendly advice”.
Dechert’s Marjolein De Backer wins high praise for her “impressive legal analysis combined with solid research” on complex antitrust law matters.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
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Niels Baeten gains widespread plaudits for being “a tactful, smooth and effective nego tiator” with “extensive expertise in dealings with global mergers in EU and Non-EU jurisdictions”.
Alexander Chadd is a “brilliant leader” with “great analytical skills” in matters pertaining to competition regulatory matters, M&A transactions and cartel investigations.
MårtenSwedenNicolin of Mannheimer Swartling receives glowing praise for his “deep knowl edge of antitrust” with a “business-oriented approach providing practical solutions”.
Sarah Milde is considered a “rising star” in the competition arena with a strong focus on litigation and cartel investigations.
Melissa Van Schoorisse at Covington & Burling is an accomplished competition prac titioner with a wealth of experience in cartel investigations and state aid.
The “rising star” René Galle is “very knowledgeable and great to work with in complex merger control proceedings”.
with Schellenberg Wittmer receives thorough endorsements in the Swiss market for her encyclopaedic knowledge of investigation proceedings.
At Bredin Prat, Guillaume Fabre is held in high esteem by peers for his “great experi ence” in competition law. He is described by peers as the “most technical lawyer in the market”.
Hengeler Mueller’s Stefanie Budde is lauded by sources for her experience and expertise in advising clients on a range of day-to-day competition-related issues.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s Mark English receives praise for her experience in a wide range of EU and UK competition matters in the aviation and technology sectors.
The ”brilliant lawyer” Thomas Masterman comes “highly recommended” for his expertise in merger control and M&A transactions.
Bertrand Guerin is the “person-to-go when it comes to multi-jurisdictional coor dination” and comes recommended for his “very strong merger control expertise”.
“A leading figure in the German antitrust market”, Lukas Rengier impresses peers and clients alike with his “strong analytical skills which are complemented by his knowledge in competition law”.
John J Fedele Baker McKenzie Washington, DC
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Vadim Brusser with Weil Gotshal & Manges impresses observers with his “in-depth knowledge of any given matter and his ability to juggle numerous tasks at once”.
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Jack Pace is a “great strategist” with a specialised competition practice concen trating on litigious matters.
Meghan Rissmiller at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US impresses with her broad knowledge of competition matters. She is singled out by peers as “the role model in competition law”.
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt’s Kaeleigh Kuzma draws high praise for her “thoughtful and analytical” approach, providing “clear and practical advice” on competition law.
has a wealth of experi ence dealing with various US enforcement agencies and assisting clients with antitrust investigations.
Arnold & Porter’s Michael Bernstein as a “very skilled practitioner” for his sterling advice to clients on complex merger filings and investigation proceedings.
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Rebecca Farrington is singled out by respondents for always being “astute and thorough” in her handling of antitrust and merger control cases.
Rani Habash with Dechert holds a “strong understanding of the merger review process” and is deemed a “creative problem solver who is strongly driven to get the best possible results for his client”.
Aimee DeFilippo is highly regarded for her agile handling of competition matters, ranging from M&A transactions to investigations.
Kenneth Reinker of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton focuses his leading practice on a wide range of competition matters, from litigation and investigations to merger
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At McCarthy Tétrault, Jonathan Bitran ranks highly among peers thanks to his deep knowl edge of “compliance, complex regulatory and statutory procedures”.
Jeny Maier of Axinn is described by peers as a “seasoned antitrust lawyer” and is singled out for her “pragmatic approach and outstanding client Sourcescare”.highlight
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Justin Bernick at Hogan Lovells US receives impressive endorsements from market sources for his “practical approach to liti gation” and is noted for “balancing business needs and legal risk in his advice”.
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Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Maria Raptis is an “excellent” practitioner with a wealth of experience in complex competition-related transactions.
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Michael Laskey from Stikeman Elliott has an impressive antitrust practice and is “a lawyer with significant experience and tech nical ability”.
The “brilliant” Franklin Rubinstein is a “master at antitrust law, especially at the interplay between technology and antitrust”.
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Canada
JohnUSA Fedele with Baker McKenzie has built up an impressive competition law practice focusing on investigations and transactional Gibson,matters.Dunn & Crutcher’s Michael Perry is lauded by peers for his deep expertise in assisting clients on a range of antitrust
Ben Labow is a highly regarded prac titioner with impeccable knowledge of competition litigation, merger reviews and investigations.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Washington, DC
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Kenneth Field is recognised for being a “smart and experienced practitioner” with deep expertise in healthcare matters, deemed “strong in hospital mergers”.
matters including complex merger control and litigious issues.
Megan Browdie is celebrated for being “creative and insightful” and receives high praise for “building up her reputation as a leading competition lawyer”.
Tanisha James is a widely respected figure in the market, thanks to her top-tier handling of merger control cases, investiga tions and compliance matters.
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Jeffrey Bank is lauded as a “thoughtful and strategic litigator” who holds a “very strong client-orientated service”.
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Toronto
EthanCooleyGlass is considered a “very strong liti gator” providing strategic advice on compe tition litigation and regulation.
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Rackow with Cahill Gordon & Reindel is hailed by market sources as a “great lawyer with a lot of international experience” and is highlighted for her “excellent ability to explain and understand the client's needs”.
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Felicity McMahon Allens Sydney Robert Walker Allens Melbourne
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complex competition law and regulatory matters”.Market sources commend Felicity McMahon for her “ability to present complex legal issues to senior management in an effective manner”.
Lauren Rackow Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP New York
Kail Jethmalani Axinn New York
At Axinn, Kail Jethmalani is “very knowledge able on a range of antitrust issues and an excellent communicator”. Clients note that “he asks the right questions to get to the heart of the legal issues.”
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Patrick English with Latham & Watkins is “solution-oriented and brings creative counsel to novel situations” he holds a “wealth of experience” and provides “prac tical advice”.
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At Bennett Jones, Zirjan Derwa is highly regarded among peers and clients alike, who commend his incisive handling of merger control and foreign investment.
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The “excellent lawyer” Anisha Chand “under stands and communicates fundamental legal principles very well, making complicated issues easy to understand”.
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Robert Walker with Allens is credited for “providing excellent, strategic advice on
Kate McNeece of McCarthy Tétrault is a “star performer” with a “good understanding of the regulatory landscape and how to navigate it”.
James Goldfeier from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett does a “great job of explaining complex terms concisely and understand ably” he is “incredibly knowledgeable with a business-minded approach”.
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Market commentators state Pranjal Prateek is an “excellent lawyer who always has an answer to any question on Indian law”. Sagardeep Rathi is widely praised for his “deep understanding of the regulatory envi ronment in the competition law space”.
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Peers applaud Alyssa Phillips at Ashurst for her “great command on merger control matters in Australia, particularly in the energy and healthcare sectors”.
Gilbert + Tobin’s Simon Muys is a favourite among peers and clients in the competi tion space, who say he is a “pre-eminent competition lawyer with excellent technical knowledge”.
Lindsey Vaala of Vinson & Elkins has an impressive antitrust practice and is consid ered by observers as “a rising star in cartel defence”.
Anshuman Sakle is “an impressive competition lawyer and comes well regarded in the competition space”.
Lindsey Vaala Vinson & Elkins LLP Washington, DC
Harikumar Pillay Baker McKenzie Singapore
Matthew Bachrack of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is highly recommended by peers for her deep expertise in assisting clients on a range of antitrust matters including inves tigations and litigation.
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz’s Franco Castelli focuses his first-rate competition practice on cross-border transactions.
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Observers note Tae Hyuk Ko is “very knowledgeable in all areas of competition law in addition to the regulatory landscape in Korea”.
of Yoon & Yang is celebrated for his “ability to accurately analyse and under stand facts to effectively advise appropriate solutions”.
Baker McKenzie
Hemi Lee is a greatly appreciated compe tition lawyer with a “deep understanding and expertise in the antitrust law” and the ability
Vaibhav Choukse at JSA is highly regarded for his “strong structured approach based on judicial precedents and global market practice”.
to “present complex matters in a simple, easy-to-grasp way”.
The “excellent” Ying Song from AnJie Law Firm is considered by peers as “an experi enced lawyer who is especially applauded for her outstanding knowledge of competition law”.
The “highly recommended” Yoshitoshi Imoto with Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu is singled out by respondents for his “sound knowledge of competition law” with a “prac tical and responsive” approach.
“Internationally experienced” Anderson Mori & Tomotsune’s Takeshi Suzuki is deemed by observers as an “outstanding competition lawyer with a commercial and pragmatic approach”.The“talented rising star” Yoshiharu Usuki has built up an impressive competi tion law practice focusing on regulatory and transaction matters.
Most highly regarded
Donald Pan draws praise for his “in-depth knowledge in competition law” with “expe rience in multi-jurisdiction merger filing”.
Competition lawyer Thomas Jenkins is a favourite among clients who praise his “strong strategy and tactics” and “ability to see the big picture”.
YamanIndia
Verma at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co is an accomplished compe tition practitioner who is “adept at explaining in-depth legal issues to a non-legal audience”.
Laura Liu receives widespread acclaim for her “responsiveness and sense of respon sibility”, her peers note she is “always ready to answer questions together with practical advice”.
Clients endorse Seung Hwan (Miles) Chung who “excels at presenting his views on complex issues to clients in a clear and succinct manner.”
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Il Kang with Bae, Kim & Lee is an accom plished competition practitioner with a wealth of experience in M&A and enforcement.
The “outstanding professional” Ritwik Bhattacharya of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co impresses market commen tators with “the depth of his knowledge and experience in dealing with matters involving competition law perspectives”.
Gong at JunHe is highly recom mended for her skilful handling of high-pro file transactions and merger control fillings.
Japan
Lee & Co’s Suruyn Kim draws praise from plaudits for her “pragmatic approach to the Korean merger control regime”.
Ravisekhar Nair of Economic Laws Practice is a “well-regarded professional in the Indian antitrust space” with a “detailed analysis and smooth handling of complex matters”.
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Maria Hajiyerou is highly recommended for her competition practice thanks to her pragmatic approach and “ensuring consist ency between different international filings”.
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AnitaAustraliaThompson with Allens enjoys a fantastic reputation in the market thanks to her “excellent communication skills and the ability to understand antitrust issues from the client’s perspective”.
Zhao Sheng Law Firm’s Xi Liao stands out for his in-depth knowledge and strategic handling of EU and Chinese competition law. He is noted for his “diligent and responsive” approach.
India
HarikumarSingaporePillay at Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow is held in high esteem by peers as “a great competition lawyer” and is singled out for his “extensive knowledge of Singapore’s competition law”.
Michio Suzuki is a key name thanks to his “in-depth knowledge in competition law and experience in multi-jurisdiction merger filing”.
Seung Hwan (Miles) Chung Kim & Chang Seoul
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Ana Bátia Glenk of Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados holds “extensive knowl edge of Brazilian and foreign competition
The “phenomenal” Federico Rossi Rodriguez with Allende & Brea is an accomplished competition practitioner with a wealth of experience in investigations and merger proceedings.
Michelle Marques Machado Mattos Filho São Paulo
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Marval O'Farrell Mairal’s Ignacio Cesar Mora is recognised by sources for his “great under standing of the new technological trends and their impact on antitrust law”.
The “excellent lawyer” Julia Loret de Mola of Payet Rey Cauvi Pérez Abogados is hailed by peers for her well-established practice, which spans the gamut of competition law matters.
Luís Nagalli with Madrona Advogados is recognised for his “growing presence on the opposition bench in merger review cases” and is considered “one of the strongest young competition lawyers in Brazil”.
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Pinheiro Neto Advogados’ Daniel Costa Rebello is in high regard by market respond ents as “one of the best of his generation” in the competition space.
Baquero at Brigard & Urrutia Abogados is recognised as a leading
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DanielEcuadorCastelo Guerro with Fabara & Compañía Abogados is a “key figure in the local market” due to his “solid knowledge both in the legal and economic aspects of competition law in Ecuador”.
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Juan Carlos Burgos at Galicia Abogados is highly recommended for his leading practice in managing complex merger procedures, cartel and dominance investigations.
Peers commend Ademir Pereira Junior at Advocacia José Del Chiaro as “one of the top antitrust attorneys in Brazil” and is considered “part of the new wave of antitrust lawyers in Brazil”.
Michelle Marques Machado at Mattos Filho is praised by peers for her deep expertise in assisting clients on a range of antitrust matters including merger control and investigations.
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Tatiana Lins Cruz receives widespread plaudits for her wealth of experience in inves tigations and regulatory matters.
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DiegoChile Hernández at FerradaNehme has built up an impressive competition practice earning him a reputation for “understanding the nuances of a company and adapting his strategy to work for the client”.
Advogados’ Vivian Fraga is a favourite among peers and clients in the competition space, who say she is “fantastic in dealing with international cartel investigations”.
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CarlosMexicoOrci Berea with Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes SC enjoys a fantastic repu tation in the market thanks to his “strong technical knowledge of Mexican antitrust law” and ability to “identify the risks from an antitrust perspective and provide practical solutions”.
Ademir Pereira Junior Advocacia José Del Chiaro São Paulo
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At Claro y Cia, Santiago Bravo draws praise from plaudits who consider him “an excellent competition law lawyer” most notably when it comes to litigation and regulatory matters.
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Respondents note Felipe Serrano of serranomartinez “has a very sound practice” advising domestic and international clients on various competition matters from litiga tion and investigations to data privacy.
Marval O’Farrell Mairal Buenos Aires
Tatiana Lins Cruz Tozzini Freire Advogados São Paulo
competition practitioner, most notably when it comes to mergers and dealing with the Colombian competition regulator.
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Peers and clients say: “Felicity is by far the best practitioner in Australia”
Louise has also advised a broad range of clients in regulated industries including in relation to competition, pricing, privatisation and access issues for energy networks, airports and ports.
Louise has specialist expertise in competition issues in the aviation and travel industry and is the leading lawyer nationally on competition issues associated with airline alliances. Louise has closely advised Virgin Australia for almost 15 years, most recently developing a regulatory strategy for Virgin Australia as it faced challenges associated with covid-19 and as it recommences services and plans for a covid-recovery world.
With 18 years of commercial practice, Louise’s clients include Virgin Australia, Meta Platforms Inc / Facebook Australia, J.P. Morgan, MYOB, eBay, Westpac, Carnival Australia, Paspaley Pearls, Ausgrid, AusNet, FedEx, Boral, Velocity, Sanitarium, Prosegur, and WiseTech.
Felicity’s particular specialty is advising on the ACCC aspects of global mergers where multiple filings in a range of jurisdictions are required. In doing so, Felicity combines both her local expertise and knowledge of the ACCC with her experience of coordinating global filings herself from her time working in London prior to joining Allens.
Felicity is a trusted advisor to major corporations in sectors including agriculture, financial institu tions, private equity firms, telecommunications, funds, mining and healthcare on competition and consumer law matters. Felicity has developed a heathy practice advising clients in relation to complex mergers, acquisitions and joint venture arrangements, ACCC market studies, inquiries, and investigations & enforcement.
Peers and clients say: “Louise is very comprehensive and thorough in her advice, providing a considered opinion on complex issues”
“She is an excellent listener who constantly strives to see issues from the client’s perspective”
“A knowledgeable and practical lawyer”
In the digital realm, Louise is a strategic advisor to Meta on Australian competition and consumer law and regulatory issues.
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felicity.mcmahon@allens.com.au5242www.allens.com.au
Deutsche Bank Place 126 Phillip Street Sydney, NSW 2000
”She is simply outstanding”
”I would recommend Felicity for her specialist expertise and client service skills”
Recently, Felicity has acted on numerous global merger clearances including advising Veolia Environnement S.A. on its global acquisi tion of Suez, Salesforce on its acquisition of Slack, Konecranes on its proposed (although later aban doned) merger with Cargotec, and Waterlogic’s acquisition by the Culligan Group. Felicity has also been very active in response to ACCC inquiries; including advising News Corp in relation to the Digital Platforms and Ad Tech inquiries and Match. com with respect to the Digital Platform Services Inquiry.
L35, Tower Two, International TowersSydney 200 Barangaroo Avenue Sydney, NSW 2000 Tel: +61 2 9263 lklamka@gtlaw.com.au4371www.gtlaw.com.au
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Louise is a Partner and the team’s People Leader in Gilbert + Tobin’s Competition + Regulation group. She has extensive experience advising on the Competition and Consumer Act implications of mergers, strategic alliances, and joint ventures, complex supply arrangements, and the use of the ACCC’s merger clearance and authorisation processes to achieve the commercial objectives of herLouiseclients.is deeply experienced in advising on ACCC investigations, cartel prosecutions and immunity applications, including in a criminal context. She has closely advised a major interna tional bank in relation to its immunity application, engagement with the ACCC, and the criminal cartel prosecution arising from a 2014 capital raising.
Tel: +61 3 8656 smuys@gtlaw.com.au3312www.gtlaw.com.au
Simon is one of Australia’s leading advisers on regulatory issues in infrastructure markets, including telecommunications, energy, ports, rail, and water. Over the last 12 months, he led a number of strategic of strategic competition and regulatory matters in the ports and logistics space, including advising on reviews by the Productivity Commission, and state regulators, on ports in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.
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”He is a pre-eminent competition lawyer”
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Robert is particularly sought after on financial services, payments and tech matters. He is the firm’s TMT sector lead and has assisted numerous tech clients with ACCC sector inquiries as well as privateRobertlitigation.isexperienced in preparing economic evidence and completed postgraduate training in competition economics at King’s College London and the Barcelona Graduate School of
101 Collins Street Melbourne, VIC 3000 Tel: +61 3 9613 robert.walker@allens.com.au8879www.allens.com.au
Peers and clients say: “Robert provides excellent, strategic advice on complex competition law and regulatory matters”
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”He is practical, sensible and commercial in his approach”
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Simon is also recognized as one of Australia’s leading telecommunications lawyers, and continues to advise Telstra in response to a number of significant regulatory and ACCC investigations and transactions, including acting for Telstra in relation to its request for informal ACCC clear ance of the acquisition of Fetch TV (a matter that is ongoing).Simon’s practice is recognised by the major legal directories. He has been listed for over a decade in Best Lawyers for his work across Competition Law, Regulatory Practice, Litigation and Telecommunications, as well as Chambers Asia-Pacific and The Legal 500
”His technical knowledge is excellent”
”Robert is both technically excellent and commercially minded”
Simon Muys Gilbert + Tobin
Robert complements his front-end work with a busy antitrust investigations and litigation prac tice. Robert advised: Peters Ice Cream – defending allegations of anticompetitive exclusive dealing arrangements, Australian Energy Council – in Competition Tribunal proceedings seeking author isation for the New Energy Tech Consumer Code and Ford Australia – in its defence of proceedings brought by the ACCC alleging unconscionable and misleading conduct.
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Peers and clients say: “Simon’s advice is considered and pragmatic”
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Simon heads the Gilbert + Tobin competition and regulatory practice in Melbourne. His practice spans general competition law/anti-trust as well as regulation of utilities and infrastructure. He regularly advises clients on complex merger clear ances as well as acting in strategic competition and regulatory litigation.
Robert acts as a trusted adviser to leading Australian and international companies as well as global law Robert’sfirms.practice spans ACCC merger clear ances, antitrust investigations and litigation, ACCC market studies and competition law advice and compliance.Robertbrings a global lens to his practice. He spent seven years with Linklaters in London and Brussels. He continues to work with interna tional clients and firms to secure ACCC merger clearances on cross border transactions and to manage the Australian aspects of global antitrust investigations.Robertis a go to advisor for complex ACCC merger clearance processes, recent deals include; Vodafone / TPG successfully overturning the ACCC’s decision to block Vodafone’s $15 billion merger with TPG – the largest merger litigation in 10 years. Securing ACCC merger authorisation for the amalgamation of major Australian payments schemes – eftpos, BPAY, NPP and numerous global pharmaceuticals deals involving; CSL / Vifor, CSL / uniQure, and Takeda / Shire.
In 2021, Simon advised on two of the most significant merger clearance matters, acting for Virtus in litigation commenced by the ACCC objecting to a proposed acquisition by Virtus of the IVF business of Healius Limited. He also acted for Qube on its engagement with the ACCC in respect of their acquisition of the Newcastle Agri Terminal. The matter resulted in a post-completion investiga tion, which has been completed without the ACCC taking further action.
Prior to joining Allen & Overy, Frances spent 16 years at another leading law firm practising compe tition law, splitting her time between Brussels and Amsterdam. Before that, Frances worked for the Dutch Competition Authority as well as for the European Commission, where she gained firsthand knowledge of their internal procedures.
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Tel: +1 416 869 mlaskey@stikeman.com5541www.stikeman.com
Tel: +32 2 780 frances.dethmers@allenovery.com2241www.allenovery.com
Frances Dethmers is a Brussels-based partner whose practice focuses upon European competi tion law. She has extensive experience in advising clients from a wide range of industries on merger control procedures, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, intellectual property issues and licensing and distribution agreements.
Peers and clients say: “Frances is both an extremely skilled economist and lawyer” ”She is very efficient and knowledgeable”
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In addition, Mike has led foreign investment reviews of many of the most significant foreign acquisitions in Canadian businesses, including Airbus in its acquisition of a majority interest in C Series Aircraft Limited Partnership from Bombardier and Vail Resorts in its acquisition of Whistler Blackcomb5300Holdings.Commerce Court West 199 Bay Street Toronto, M5L 1B9
Peers and clients say: “Michael is a lawyer with significant experience and technical “Anability”efficient and knowledgeable lawyer with excellent advisory skills”
Tervurenlaan 268A avenue de Brussels,Tervueren1150
Ms. Song is a full-time antitrust partner at AnJie Law Firm. She practices antitrust law since the very first years that China’s Anti-Monopoly Law was enacted and devoted her entire career so far to the practice of antitrust law. She has accumulated extensive experience in all types of antitrust cases, including antitrust investigations, private antitrust actions, merger filings and antitrust compliance counselling.Shehas handled a number of high-profile antitrust cases in China, including the merger filing cases – GlobalWafers/Siltronic, MediaTek/ Morning Star and ChemChina/Syngenta; the anti trust private litigation cases-Hitachi Metals case and Panasonic case, and the investigation case in sectors of LCD , auto parts, internet, pharmaceu tical, technology, among many others. All these cases have been widely followed by enforcers, scholars and practitioners in China and around the world.Ms.Song have also accumulated an array of experience in competition cases related to intel lectual property. She has experience of handling various IP-related competition litigations and advised numerous high-tech companies on responding to antitrust investigations. •
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Mike’s recent notable competition law transac tions include: Air Canada in its proposed acquisition of Air Transat; Discount Car & Truck Rentals in its acquisition by Enterprise; IBM in its acquisition of Red Hat; United Technologies in its merger with Raytheon and its acquisition of Rockwell Collins; Global Payments in its acquisition of TSYS; TELUS in its acquisition of ADT Canada; Wabtec in its acquisition of GE’s transportation business; Lowe’s in its acquisition of RONA; Univar in its acquisition of Nexeo; Valspar in its acquisition by Sherwin-Williams; CST Brands in its acquisition by Alimentation Couche-Tard; and Sobeys in its acqui sitions of Safeway Canada, Farm Boy and Longo’s.
Ying Song AnJie Law Firm
“He is extremely responsive”
Frances has degrees in economics and law from the University of Amsterdam. As a result, she has an in-depth understanding of the economic concepts and analytical techniques at the heart of competition law. Accolades from clients and peers in WWL: Competition 2021 include “She always addresses the key points swiftly” and “Frances masterfully handles economic issues”.
Frances is the co-author of The Economic Assessment of Mergers under European Competition Law and a regular contributor of arti cles that provide insights into the latest antitrust developments.Allen&Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
Michael Laskey is a partner in Stikeman Elliott’s Competition & Foreign Investment Group. He has significant experience advising clients on the competition law risks of complex and highprofile transactions, including working with the Competition Bureau to resolve difficult issues and negotiate remedial agreements. Mike also advises under the Investment Canada Act on precedent-set ting foreign investment reviews.
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Mike is repeatedly recognized as a leader in Canadian competition law, having been awarded the IFLR Rising Stars Americas Award for 2020 for both Canada and North American Antitrust & Competition categories. He has also been recog nized as a leading lawyer by Chambers Canada, Chambers Global, GCR 100 and Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Michael Laskey Stikeman Elliott LLP
”He has been great on various important M&A transactions”
25 Southampton Buildings London, WC2A 1AL Tel: +44 203 655 lskruzmane@brsllp.com3636www.brsllp.com
Thomas Masterman Allen & Overy LLP
Tom Masterman is a partner in Allen & Overy’s global antitrust group. He has over 15 years’ expe rience advising clients on complex international, EU and UK merger clearances, including some of the highest-profile M&A transactions in the market in recent years.
He also has an established track record of advising on cartel and abuse of dominance inves tigations, national security / foreign direct invest ment reviews and market investigations. Tom’s practice spans a broad range of sectors, with particular expertise in infrastructure, life sciences and TMT.Tom is listed in the Legal 500 directory as a “rising star” and a “superb competition lawyer”. Client accolades include “technically he is very strong, but more importantly for us, he also has the ability to apply his knowledge to the specific commercial context and discern what the real risk is, adding real value to our decision-making.”
Peers and clients say: “Thomas is a bril liant ”Tomlawyer”isafantastic lawyer with deep knowl edge and experience on a wide range of competition issues”
Peers and clients say: “She is a highly professional and experienced lawyer with outstanding knowledge of competition law” ”Ying finds constructive solutions to clients’ cases”
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
Clients value Lauma’s insights on how to maxi mize the monetization opportunities of their claims like any other corporate asset and how resolution of any actual or threatened litigation fits within the overall commercial strategy.
”She excels at finding pragmatic solutions that effectively meet her client’s needs”
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Peers and clients say: “Lauma is very commercially minded”
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”She deploys her extensive knowledge and experience of various strategies to cut through complex substantive issues”
Lauma is one of the founding partners of BRS. With offices in London and LA, BRS is an international leader in antitrust affirmative recoveries and have a strong track record of successful results acting for multinational corporates in private damages claims across the US and Europe.
One Bishops Square London, E1 6AD Tel: +44 20 3088 thomas.masterman@allenovery.com3386www.allenovery.com
She was consecutively recognized by Chambers & Partners as Recommended PRC Competition/ Antitrust Lawyer from 2017 to 2022,. From 2019 to 2021, she was awarded as Top Ten PRC Antitrust Lawyers by China Intellectual Property Forum She was recognized as Top 15 female Lawyers of China in 2020 and as Top 15 Innovative Lawyers of China in 2021 by the LegalBand. She also serves as the experts in various tasks forces with ICC Competition Commission and closely follow the global trend of antitrust matters.
Tel: +86 10 8567 songying@anjielaw.com5979www.anjielaw.com
Lauma manages the London office and leads on the firm’s European matters. Lauma’s experi ence includes acting for a wide range of clients in antitrust litigation matters before the UK courts and the CAT, and developing, coordinating and deliv ering antitrust litigation strategies in proceedings in other European jurisdictions in collaboration with localBRSlawyers.arechange makers in the delivery of legal services. Our distinguishing feature and unique offering to clients is that we only work on a fully contingent, deferred, ‘no-win, no-fee’ basis taking on all the risk of running cases and managing funding arrangements. Therefore, we truly have ‘skin in the game’ and are fully aligned with our clients’ interests to reach successful recoveries most efficiently. We pick cases with great diligence, utilising knowledge and past expertise bringing these claims for claimants, as well as defending them.Lauma’s representative matters include acting in claims following cartels and other infringements in the financial services, e-commerce, automotive, mobile devices, pharma, payment services, power products, air cargo and synthetic rubber markets.
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Ms. Song’s clientele ranges from large SOEs to renowned multinationals and medium-sized domestic or foreign companies. The clients are active in industries like automobile, electronics, semiconductor, chemical, pharmaceutical, energy, transportation, machinery, aviation and consumer goods. Her professional devotion is well recognized by many clients.
Prior to BRS, Lauma trained and practiced in the European offices of other global law firms.
Peers and clients say: “He provides prac tical advice with strategic focus”
Bastien Thomas is a partner in the Paris-based competition practice of Racine, one of the main independent French business law firms with over 200 lawyers acting as advisors, litigators and arbitrators in all business-related areas (M&A, competition, real estate, labour, commercial, IP, tax, restructuring & insolvency).
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Well recognised in his fields of expertise, Bastien is the author of several papers on compe tition law and is notably a regular contributor to the French quarterly review Concurrences
Stephen is a partner in the Competition Department.Stephen has particular experience in dealing with UK and EU cartel investigations, obtaining UK, EU and international merger clearances, and resolving competition law disputes including follow-on damages litigation. He also advises clients on UK market studies / investigations and European Commission sector inquiries, the compe tition law aspects of commercial agreements and compliance with competition law. Stephen also advises on the UK National Security & Investment Act and other national security / foreign investment matters.Stephen’s expertise covers sectors including technology, financial services, consumer prod ucts and brands, infrastructure and utilities, life sciences, construction, sports and media.
Charles-Henri has acted in several land mark EC and French competition cases, such as e-books, GIE Cartes Bancaires, the Nespresso coffee capsules saga, the widely publicised petfood, poultry, fruit compote and yogurt cases (obtaining a massive fine reduction for Lactalis group before the Paris Court of Appeals) and the highly sensi tive supermarket probes concerning national and international joint purchasing agreements in the food retail sector, among others.63,avenue de Paris,Villiers75017
Peers and clients say: “Charles-Henri combines technical excellence with a strong strategic view of the case and how to interact with competition authorities”
In addition to being an active member of the competition law practitioners’ community as a member of the APDC (French competition practi tioners association), the AFEC (French association studying competition law) and the ASAE (State aid monitoring association), Bastien is a lecturer in European and international competition law for the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Columbia University and Sciences Po Master 2 academic partnership.Holding a MBA from Essec Business School and a master’s in European business law from Panthéon-Assas University, Bastien’s native language is French and he speaks English fluently.
Stephen has been regularly recognised in a number of legal directories, and he is currently included as a “Next Generation Partner” in The Legal 500. Stephen is frequently quoted in general and trade press on a wide range of issues, and he is also regularly invited to speak as a competition law expert at industry events, including most recently on financial services and also sustainability issues.
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“He provides insightful technical analysis and strategic advice”
Charles-Henri Calla is a partner at the top-notch French competition and distribution boutique firm Grall & Charles-HenriAssociés. has a wealth of experience in all areas of French and European competition law.
He is constantly ranked as one of the best lawyers in competition law in France by the main legal directories, which state that his “competi tion practice is truly outstanding” and that he “is very talented, provides strategic outlook and has exceptional analysis skills”. The guides add that he “perfectly understands constraints faced by compa nies and relentlessly seeks to attain the best reach able goals for his clients” and “has perfect legal mastering, is very responsive and thinks outside the box”.Charles-Henri is particularly praised for his deep expertise in advising leading French and inter national companies across a wide range of sectors before French or European competition authorities and courts. He advises on high-profile and complex merger control cases (including Phase II), repre senting both merging and third parties (at trial, when necessary); highly complex litigation matters (cartel and abuse of dominance investigations, vertical restraints, private enforcement, commercial and distribution law matters); and state aid. He also offers first-class representation in high-stakes civil and criminal investigations in relation to consumer law protection (the horsemeat scandal, etc).
”He is very hands on, proactive and responsive”
“Stephen is a fantastic lawyer” “He holds vast experience in dealing with UK and EU cartel investigations”
Peers and clients say: “Bastien has the ability to handle complex cases with multiple parties in an international environment”
Focussing his expertise on advising French and international companies on complex and challenging competition law issues, Bastien has acquired extensive experience in and knowledge of very specific sectors such as energy, automo tive and mobility, agri-food, microelectronics and health. He represents clients before French and EU competition authorities and courts.
With over 15 years of experience in competition law to his credit, Bastien specialises in antitrust (anticompetitive agreements and abuse of domi nant position), merger control, State aid and foreign investment control, both at French and EU levels.
Tel: +33 1 53 57 40 chcalla@grall-legal.fr37www.grall-legal.fr
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”He has a terrific reputation in the Indian ”Hemarket”isgreat to work with on merger control matters”
Peers and clients say: “He has very exten sive knowledge in merger control matters”
Maxim has worked on a number of high-profile competition law cases before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission, covering various markets as railways, power plant infrastructure, beer, wallpaper, steel, building insu lation, and contact lenses. Furthermore, Maxim has extensive knowledge of distribution systems and regularly provides advice on the structuring of joint ventures and cooperations between competitors in accordance with applicable antitrust law.
Maxim has experience in all areas of conten tious antitrust law, including antitrust investiga tions before the European Commission and various national authorities, such as the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt). He defends clients against antitrust damage claims that regu larly succeed to authority proceedings, both in liti gation and arbitration proceedings.
”Dr Kleine possesses valuable analytical skills”
”He has an excellent critical mind”
Ram Kumar Poornachandran leads the competi tion practice of TT&A. He has advised Indian and foreign clients on complex matters across various sectors such as digital markets and e-commerce platforms, pharmaceuticals, media, petrochemi cals, energy, FMCG, and glass.
”Takeshi is an expert on Japanese compe tition law”
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He speaks Japanese and English. He gradu ated from the University of Kyoto in 2006.
Peers and clients say: “Maxim is a prom inent figure in the German antitrust scene”
Takeshi has published on Japanese merger control issues and is a contributor to multiple competition law publications such as Global Competition Review: Information Exchange and The Asia-Pacific Antitrust Review, published by Global Competition Review.
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Takeshi Suzuki Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Takeshi Suzuki is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. He specialises in competition law advice including Japanese and multi-jurisdictional merger filings, domestic and international cartel defence, and distribution matters.
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Prior to joining Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Takeshi was engaged in a number of M&A trans actions and competition matters (including cartel defence, merger control, joint ventures and unfair trade practices) at a leading UK law firm, and also gained experience of EU competition law practice while working in Brussels. Takeshi also worked for approximately two years at the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC). During his time at the JFTC, Takeshi was involved in reviewing a large amount of merger filings as a chief case handler.
Maxim holds a law degree and a doctoral degree from the University of Goettingen and studied abroad at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Before joining GÖRG Rechtsanwälte, he headed the German antitrust and regulatory prac tice of an international law firm and the antitrust practice of another leading German firm.Hamburg
He recently won a series of benchmark cases before the German Federal Supreme Court, successfully challenging a rule of assumption that cartels regularly lead to damages and creating benchmark jurisdiction for follow-on damage claims in Germany for defendants.
Peers and clients say: “Ram has built a great practice based in New Delhi and has cultivated excellent contacts with the Competition Commission”
With this background, Takeshi is able to provide domestic and international clients with practical advice in complex merger cases, enabling them to have clear views on their prospects of clearance and filing schedules at the early stages of an M&A transaction. Takeshi has extensive experience in various industries including steel; chemicals; phar maceuticals and medical devices; aviation; elec tric devices; semiconductors; automobile; energy; media and entertainment; consumer goods; logis tics; finance; and real estate.
Tel: +81 3 6775 takeshi.suzuki@amt-law.com1288www.amt-law.com
Dr. Maxim Kleine leads the German competition practice of GÖRG Rechtsanwälte. He advises clients in German and EU antitrust law and his main focus is defending clients in antitrust proceed ings before the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission, and the competent courts. Furthermore, Maxim regularly advises clients in multinational competition matters and coordinates proceedings with colleagues in various jurisdictions outside Germany and Europe.
“He is very responsive and commercial” Japan
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He has successfully advised and represented a number of clients in merger transactions, including: Linde AG in its merger with Praxair Inc, 21st Century Fox in relation to the sale of its business to Walt Disney Co, Lafarge in its global merger with Holcim and Rosneft’s acquisition of EssarOnSteel.theantitrust side, Ram has successfully defended Saint Gobain, Reliance Industries, 21st Century Fox, Facebook and Swiggy. Ram has also represented clients such as Flipkart, Disney Star India and Great Eastern Energy before various Courts in India. He has represented Reliance Industries and 21st Century Fox in cartel inves tigations. Ram is a non-governmental advisor to the CCI.Hereceived his LLM degree from the National University of Singapore and holds a postgraduate diploma in competition economics from King’s CollegeRamLondon.isconsistently rated for his expertise and experience by publications such as Chambers and Partners, Who’s Who Legal as a “Future Leader” 2020 and The Legal 500. He is described as “mature beyond his years and very capable” and someone who has “evolved into a brilliant competi tion lawyer and has built a greatPlotpractice.”No.A7 & Noida,SectorA84201301
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Manish is admitted in the Netherlands and England & Wales, specializing in core competition, commer cial law and regulatory issues. He has practiced in Amsterdam (since 2006) and London (2002–2006).
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Since 2012, he has been a regular contrib utor to LexisNexis UK’s LexisPSL Practice Note on Competition (International Cartel Enforcement and Merger Control). He is also the co-author of several international publications, including the South Korea chapter of Chambers Global Practice Guides: Merger Control (2019–2022) and Practical Law Global Guide: Competition and Cartel Leniency (2009–2022).
Van Baerlestraat 144 Amsterdam, 1071 BE Tel: + 31 6 1448 manishbahl@bahlco.nl1198www.bahlco.nl
Manish was recommended in The Legal 500 Chambers and by Who’s Who Legal as Global Leader Franchise 2020 and 2021 and Competition Future Leader 2021 - Partners: Manish wins endorsements for being “a pragmatic and efficient lawyer, particularly strong in antitrust matters”. “He is very responsive and delivers high-quality work products products, concrete advice and guidance within a short period of time. He is an excellent lawyer and a great source of advice.” According to a Fortune 500 client: “Manish is able to deal with different backgrounds with great ease; this helps a lot in today’s legal market in the Netherlands” and “Manish is the type of lawyer that US clients look for inManishEurope.”studied law in Edinburgh, Leiden and London and has lived in seven countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. He enjoys family-time, reading, food, wine, running, cricket, history, travelling.
He is a graduate of Hanyang University College of Law (LLB, 2001) and Boston University School of Law (LLM, 2011). He is admitted to the Bar in Korea.
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Peers and clients say: “He has the ability to accurately analyse and understand the facts and suggest appropriate solutions”
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He was recognised as a leading lawyer in antitrust/competition by The Legal 500: Asia Pacific (2019–2022), and as a “future star” in competition/antitrust by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific (2019-2022). He has been named as a notable practitioner in competition/antitrust by asialaw Profiles (2020–2022).
Tel: +82 2 6003 sryu@yoonyang.com7530www.yoonyang.com
He acts for both transacting and opposing parties. His disputes work involves competition damages actions, cross-border litigation, interna tional arbitration. He deals with Dutch regulators and the European Commission and has extensive experience in supporting businesses on their contracting, routes to market, supply, pricing, coop eration and acquisition strategies and regulatory requirements.Afterworking at leading firms (CMS, Clifford Chance and, as a partner, at Eversheds Sutherland and Fieldfisher), in 2021 Manish set up Bahl & Co., a modern progressive firm focusing on quality and successful and sustainable legal solutions in the (post-) covid-19 and Brexit reality (see www.bahlco. nl for an overview of Manish’s esteemed clients and wins). Manish brings together top lawyers, econo mists and experts to provide world renowned exper tise for clients in a variety of sectors. In addition to direct client engagements, Manish is regularly instructed by international law firms.
Peers and clients say: “Manish is an excellent communicator with strong business acumen” ”He understands what kind of practical solutions clients require” ”A brilliant mind, with outstanding expertise in competition law”
Song Ryu is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC and member of the firm’s competition and antitrust practice group. He advises Korean and multina tional corporations on antitrust matters. His exper tise focuses on the interface between antitrust law and intellectual property rights, abuse of domi nance, leniency programs, merger control, unfair business practice, and administrative/civil/criminal litigation.Hehas successfully represented many leading Korean and multinational corporations in various antitrust cases. Most recently, he successfully defended ICT companies belonging to large busi ness group regarding their alleged violation of the regulation on obtainment of unlawful benefits from affiliates, obtained acquittal and deliberation process closed. He was also involved in the representation of United Technologies Corporation in the KFTC’s merger review investigation into its acquisition of Rockwell Collins and Raytheon Company, which resulted in the KFTC’s unconditional approval.
”He understands and judges the needs of the client, and always strives for the best results”
Mr Larcina also regularly advises clients from diverse industries on various competition law issues, including, but not limited to the competitive impact of vertical restraints and agreement such as resale price maintenance, territorial exclusivity and non-compete. He has also helped clients design and implement antitrust audit and compliance programmes.MrLarcina co-authored the Philippine chapter in Getting the Deal Through:Vertical Agreements. He is included in Who’s Who Legal: Competition Future Leaders (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021).His efforts contributed to SyCipLaw winning the inau gural Antitrust and Competition Team of the Year award given by The Legal 500 for fglarcina@syciplaw.comTel:105SyCipLaw2020/2021.CenterPaseodeRoxasMakatiCity,1226+63289823500www.syciplaw.com
Andreas joined Mannheimer Swartling in 2011, after brief stints working for the Swedish foreign service in Stockholm and Geneva, and as a trainee at another competition law practice in Brussels. He was promoted to partner at Mannheimer Swartling in 2021. He studied law and political science at the universities of Uppsala and Panthéon-Assas, Paris, and did a secondment in Washington DC with a leading US antitrust practice in 2016. He is based in Brussels and splits his time between the firm’s Brussels, Gothenburg and Stockholm offices. He is a member of the Sweden and Brussels bars.
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“A really good competition lawyer who is bright and responsive”
Andreas’ work spans the full range of compe tition, trade and general EU law. He regularly acts as lead counsel on EU and national merger filings, cartel and abuse of dominance investigations, trade defence investigations, and in litigation before the EU courts. In addition, he acts in arbitration proceedings alongside the firm’s leading global dispute resolution practice, on antitrust aspects of high-value commercial disputes, e.g., in the energy and technology sectors.
Andreas has been listed by Who’s Who Legal as a future leader of competition law, in 2021 and 2022. He speaks Swedish, English, French and www.mannheimerswartling.seandreas.johansson@msa.seTel:NorrlandsgatanSpanish.21POBox1711Stockholm,11187+3227377179
“He is able to understand and translate busi ness needs into legal language”
Mr Larcina has extensive experience in compe tition law. In merger control, his work highlights include advising Sanofi in its Philippine merger filing for its acquisition of the consumer health care business of Boehringer Ingelheim (resulting in the first merger clearance to be issued by the Philippine Competition Commission after a full review), advising Alipay of the Ant Financial Group in its merger filing for its investment in the fintech enterprise of Globe Telecoms (where the PCC conducted its first Phase II review, and was subse quently unconditionally approved), and Grab in its acquisition of Uber’s Southeast Asian assets (the first transaction that was subjected by the PCC to a motu proprio review and subsequently cleared on the basis of voluntary commitments).
Highlights from the last year include repre senting LKAB in proceedings against the European Commission before the General Court, in a EUR billion dispute under the ETS directive, representing a State-owned Finnish gas supplier in commercial arbitration against Gazprom, representing AAK in the European Commission’s anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations concerning fatty acids, and merger control work for clients such as Volvo, E.ON and Capio Healthcare.
“He is a very responsive practitioner”
Franco Aristotle G Larcina SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
Franco Aristotle G Larcina is a partner at SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan. His main areas of practice are M&A, competition law, TMT and data privacy.Mr Larcina has extensive experience in M&A transactions, specialising in industries with nation ality restrictions and involving public corporations. Some of his work highlights include advising GIC in its various investments in the Philippines, all in highly regulated businesses and with the target or a key affiliate being a public company.
Peers and clients say: “Franco is well versed in complex multijurisdictional merger control “Workingmatters” with Franco on competition matters is a great experience”
Peers and clients say: “Andreas is sharp and thorough”
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”She stands out from her peers due to her pragmatic approach and outstanding client care”
Aside his work on the mandates, Fabian Koch regularly publishes articles and gives presentations on the topics of his expertise.Dufourstrasse 105 Zurich, CH-8008 Tel: +41 43 555 70 fabian.koch@core-attorneys.com01www.core-attorneys.com
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Peers and clients say: “He has a very quick grasp of even the most complex issues” “He always remains on top of what is going “Fabianon” is great to work with”
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Jeny Maier is a trusted counselor and advocate for parties to strategic M&A transactions with compe tition issues. She regularly guides major compa nies and investors through large, strategic M&A transactions, using her significant experience to advise on pre-merger notification requirements and substantive competitive issues. Jeny also has comprehensive experience advising clients in all facets of antitrust law.
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Peers and clients say: “Jeny is a seasoned antitrust lawyer who advises companies in high-profile merger cases”
Recent representative M&A experience includes representing Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. in its US$12.7 billion acquisition of Zynga; Tufts Health Plan in its merger with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; securing clearance without a Second Request investigation for Sunrun in its US$3.2 billion acquisition of Vivint Solar, securing unconditional clearance from the US DOJ for McKesson’s US$3.4 billion healthcare technology joint venture with Change Healthcare; assisting Dell in achieving clearance in 18 jurisdictions around the world in its US$67 billion acquisition of EMC as well as its US$4 billion sale of Boomi to Francisco Partners and TPG Capital; representing Johnson Controls International in the US$2 billion sale of its Scott Safety business to 3M; and securing clearance for Stanley Black & Decker in its US$900 million purchase of the Craftsman brand from SearsJenyHoldings.also has considerable experience assisting clients in responding to civil and criminal antitrust investigations and defending class-ac tion litigation. In addition to M&A and litigation, she counsels clients on a broad range of antitrust issues relating to pricing practices, distribution and marketing arrangements, intellectual property licence agreements and standard-setting activities. She works with clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, manufacturing, and transportation.1901
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In addition to a Master’s degree in Law and Economics (2014), Fabian Koch holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (2010), both from the University of St. Gallen (HSG). This combined educational background allows him to understand economic interconnections as well as the needs and objectives of his clients. From 20152017, Fabian Koch worked as an auditor and clerk at the District Court of Horgen, Switzerland. Fabian Koch also worked as a trainee and lawyer in two large Swiss law firms where he obtained extensive expertise in his areas of expertise.
During his studies, Fabian Koch gained substantial business insights in various indus tries. In particular, he worked at a globally active railway technology manufacturer, a leading Swiss transport company and a globally active insurance company in the area of corporate development and controlling. Fabian Koch is a member of various legal associations and notably a listed expert of the Swiss Distribution Association (formerly Swiss Franchise Association).
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MelissaAustraliaFraser Ashurst melissa.fraser@ashurst.com Louise Klamka* Gilbert + Tobin lklamka@gtlaw.com.au Felicity McMahon* Allens felicity.mcmahon@allens.com.au Simon Muys* Gilbert + Tobin smuys@gtlaw.com.au Alyssa Phillips Ashurst alyssa.phillips@ashurst.com Robert Walker* Allens robert.walker@allens.com.au Mihkel Wilding Clayton Utz mwilding@claytonutz.com
Fabian Koch is an attorney at law and founding partner of CORE Attorneys, a Swiss boutique law firm specialising in competition and antitrust law, regulatory matters and distribution law. He repre sents clients in complex competition investigations, merger control proceedings, public procurement proceedings and civil litigation related to his prac tice area. He advises companies of all types on general contract, subcontract and distribution law issues (including e-commerce), cooperation and compliance issues (including compliance training, dawn-raid workshops and internal investigations) and regulatory matters.
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Richard Pepper
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Michael Laskey* Stikeman Elliott LLP mlaskey@stikeman.com
Michael Caldecott
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Satyen Dhana Simmons & Simmons LLP satyen.dhana@simmons-simmons.com Marta Isabel Garcia Stephenson Harwood LLP marta.garcia@shlegal.com
White & Case LLP ssakellariou@whitecase.com
Clemens York von Wartenburg Dechert LLP clemens.york@dechert.com
Robin van der Hout
Macfarlanes LLP richard.pepper@macfarlanes.com
Adam S Goodman Dentons Canada LLP adam.goodman@dentons.com
Angus Coulter Hogan Lovells International LLP angus.coulter@hoganlovells.com
Joost Haans
Johan Van Acker
Maikel Van Wissen
Ricardo Motta
Francesco Carloni
CMS Derks Star Busmann bjoern.herbers@cms-hs.com
BMA - Barbosa Müssnich Aragão marcos@bmalaw.com.br Milena Fernandes Mundim Demarest Advogados mmundim@demarest.com.br
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP irooms@cgsh.com
Paul Johnson
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP tone.oeyen@freshfields.com
Clifford Chance LLP dieter.paemen@cliffordchance.com
Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick v.mussche@liedekerke.com
Clifford Chance LLP anastasios.tomtsis@cliffordchance.com
John Wileur
Michelle Marques Machado Mattos Filho michelle.machado@mattosfilho.com.br Marcel Medon Santos TozziniFreire Advogados mmsantos@tozzinifreire.com.br
Isabel Rooms
BMA - Barbosa Müssnich Aragão ccp@bmalaw.com.br
McCarthy Tétrault LLP jbitran@mccarthy.ca
Strati Sakellariou-Witt
FelipeColombiaSerrano
Michele Davis
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP michele.davis@freshfields.com
Vincent Mussche
Ademir Pereira Junior Advocacia Del Chiaro apj@ajdc.com.br
Zhao Sheng Law Firm vivian.cao@linklaterszs.com Zhifeng Chai King & Wood Mallesons chaizhifeng@cn.kwm.com Jet (Zhisong) Deng Dentons zhisong.deng@dentons.cn Mingfang Gong JunHe LLP gongmf@junhe.com Cheng Liu King & Wood Mallesons liucheng@cn.kwm.com Ying Song* AnJie Law Firm songying@anjielaw.com Yizhe Zhang Jones Day yzhang@jonesday.com Ziqing Zheng Zhong Lun Law Firm zhengziqing@zhonglun.com
Angelique Bret Pinsent Masons LLP angelique.bret@pinsentmasons.com
francesco.carloni@klgates.com
Frances Dethmers* Allen & Overy LLP frances.dethmers@allenovery.com
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Sibel Yilmaz
Jones Day ldemuyter@jonesday.com
Latham & Watkins LLP john.wileur@lw.com
McCarthy Tétrault LLP mcaldecott@mccarthy.ca
TimEnglandBlanchard
Jim Dinning Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP jdinning@dwpv.com
serranomartinez fserrano@serranomartinez.com
Slaughter and May tim.blanchard@slaughterandmay.com
Ricardo Ferreira Pastore Pereira Neto Macedo Advogados ricardo.pastore@pnm.adv.br
Peter Broadhurst Simmons & Simmons LLP peter.broadhurst@simmons-simmons.com
Jones Day
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VivianChinaCao
White & Case LLP genevra.forwood@whitecase.com
Jonathan Bitran
Alysha Manji-Knight Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP amanji-knight@dwpv.com
Joshua Chad McMillan LLP joshua.chad@mcmillan.ca
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Laurent De Muyter
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Van Bael & Bellis jvanacker@vbb.com
Ana Bátia Glenk
K&L Gates LLP
Scott McInnes
Grinberg e Cordovil Advogados rcm@gcalaw.com.br Luís Nagalli Madrona Advogados luis.nagalli@madronalaw.com.br
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Christian von Köckritz
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Peter Harper
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Constantine Cannon rpike@constantinecannon.co.uk
Matthew Sinclair-Thomson
Heinz & Zagrosek Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB rzagrosek@hz-partner.com
Marie Leppard
Francesco Liberatore
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Ben Lasserson
Christopher Graf
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James Marshall
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Thomas Masterman*
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Francesca Richmond Baker McKenzie francesca.richmond@bakermckenzie.com
Sylvain Justier Magenta sylvain.justier@magenta-legal.com Lionel Lesur Franklin llesur@franklin-paris.com
aditi.gopalakrishnan@azbpartners.com
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Lauma Skruzmane* Butler Reichline Skruzmane (BRS) LLP lskruzmane@brsllp.com
Hengeler Mueller thomas.b.paul@hengeler.com Andrea Pomana Advant Beiten Burkhardt andrea.pomana@advant-beiten.com Christian Ritz Hogan Lovells International LLP christian.ritz@hoganlovells.com
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Allen & Overy LLP thomas.masterman@allenovery.com
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Caroline Thomas
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Al Mangan Addleshaw Goddard LLP al.mangan@addleshawgoddard.com
LaurenceFranceBary
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Sarah Ward Walker Morris sarah.ward@walkermorris.co.uk
Christopher Hutton
Jeremy Robinson Harcus Parker Limited jrobinson@harcusparker.co.uk
Janja Zaplotnik
Liat Hertzka Meitar Law Offices liath@meitar.com
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L&L Partners ahussain@luthra.com
Anshuman Sakle Khaitan & Co anshuman.sakle@khaitanco.com
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune yoshiharu.usuki@amt-law.com
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Yohsuke Higuchi
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Ben Labow Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati blabow@wsgr.com
Marin Boney Kirkland & Ellis LLP marin.boney@kirkland.com
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Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP vadim.brusser@weil.com
Jeffrey J Amato Winston & Strawn LLP jamato@winston.com
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Adam J Zapala Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy azapala@cpmlegal.com
John J Fedele Baker McKenzie LLP john.fedele@bakermckenzie.com
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Jones Day epenson@jonesday.com
Rudolph Labuschagne Bowmans
Covington & Burling LLP alee@cov.com
Thompson Hine LLP
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Claire Reidy Bowmans claire.reidy@bowmanslaw.com
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Stefanie is counsel in Allen & Overy’s antitrust team, based in Sydney. She advises domestic and foreign clients on complex mergers and joint ventures, investigations and enforcement matters, infrastructure access and obtaining regulatory clearances.Stefanie’s practice covers a wide range of sectors including financial services, IT, media, aviation, health, energy and resources, ports, rail, agriculture and food manufacturing.
Geoff has authored a textbook on access regulation with two colleagues: Access Regulation in Australia (Geoff Petersen, Morelle Bull and Catherine Dermody, Thomson Reuters, 2016).
85 Castlereagh Street Sydney, NSW 2000
”Stefanie is a fantastic lawyer”
Geoff is also frequently called on to advise on competition law matters – including enforce ment, compliance and merger clearance matters – particularly where complex economic principles are involved. Key clients include Virgin Australia, NSW Ports and BlueScope Steel.
Prior to joining Gilbert + Tobin, Geoff was a professional economist at a leading Australian economic consultancy. In that role, he advised a range of clients on economic issues relating to the regulation of network industries such as telecom munications and energy.
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Stefanie Benson Allen & Overy LLP
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Peers and clients say: “Stefanie is highly knowledgeable, very responsive and provides comprehensive feedback”
Stefanie holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney and a Masters in Global Competition Law from the University of Melbourne and is a co-author of the Lexis Nexis text ‘The Law and Social Media’.
Geoff holds first-class honours degrees in both law and economics.
Geoff’s practice includes regulatory and trade prac tices matters, with a focus on access to essential infrastructure. He advises on economic regulation, competition and access matters in a range of infra structure sectors including energy, telecommuni cations, ports, rail, aviation and logistics.
Peers and clients say: “His advice is considered, well-reasoned and most impor tantly commercial”
Stefanie delivers highly technical expertise to clients in a commercial and practical manner. Her experience has benefited from the opportunity to work on complex matters within the integrated Allen & Overy network, including secondments to Beijing and Hamburg. Stefanie has advised numerous clients on the application of competition laws across the Asia Pacific region, including how to navigate newly established competition regimes.
Geoff Petersen Gilbert + Tobin
In addition to being listed in WWL, Stefanie is recognised as a ‘Rising Star’ by The Legal 500: Asia Pacific, which reports that Stefanie is “an excellent competition practitioner – very knowledgeable, responsive and pragmatic.”
Tel: +61 2 9373 stefanie.benson@allenovery.com7700www.allenovery.com
L35, Tower Two, International Towers Sydney 200 Barangaroo Avenue Sydney, NSW 2000 Tel: +61 2 9263 gpetersen@gtlaw.com.au4388www.gtlaw.com.au
“She is active in some of the most high-profile cases in Australia”
Geoff is a trained economist and lawyer and is experienced in dealing with both economic and legal issues relating to infrastructure access and pricing. He has advised a number of electricity and gas distribution businesses on the revenue and price control regimes under the National Electricity Law and National Gas Law, and has represented these businesses in numerous price review proceedings. In the port and rail sectors, he has advised regula tors and major users of regulated infrastructure in relation to reviews of access undertakings and access dispute processes. He also provides advice to Telstra on regulatory obligations arising under the telecommunications access regime, particularly in relation to access pricing matters.
”He provides a high quality of advice, timeli ness of service and efficiency”
Stefanie has extensive experience acting on multi-jurisdictional merger clearances and crossborder investigations. Stefanie has advised on some of the most significant antitrust matters in Australia, most recently acting for Asahi in its US$11 billion acquisition of Carlton & United Breweries, and for a global technology client in relation to various inquiries by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and other competition regulators. In addition, she has advised a range of clients such as Alinta, Euro Garages, OneRail, PEXA, and George Weston Foods.
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the
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Niels has over 10 years of experience helping global corporations navigate complex multi jurisdictional merger control matters, including complex remedy structures. He has played a leading role in several high-profile transactions, including Air Canada/Transat IBM/Red Hat United Technologies/Rockwell Collins, Sherwin-Williams/ Valspar, Linamar/Montupet and several acquisitions by Mohawk Industries.
Francesca Miotto is counsel in Allen & Overy’s Brussels antitrust team and a member of the life sciences group. She acts on the full range of competition law issues across a variety of indus tries and has dealt extensively with the European Commission and other regulators around the world.Francesca’s experience is truly diverse: she has represented clients in several EU investiga tions, including cartel settlement procedures and abuse of dominance issues. She also has particular experience in advising on complex multi-jurisdic tional merger reviews, including two Phase II clear ances before the European Commission (one of which was based on a “failing firm” defence).
Francesca has considerable experience representing clients before the European courts in Luxembourg and frequently advises on private enforcement matters, having developed particular expertise in this field since the implementation of the Private Damages Directive in the EU.
Francesca regularly publishes and speaks on competition law and life sciences topics. She is qualified in the UK and Belgium. She has worked in the firm’s London and Brussels antitrust teams, and in its Paris office. Francesca is fluent in Italian, with a good command of French.
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“He is an unusually talented and exceptional “Helawyer”has extensive expertise in dealings with global mergers”
Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
Tervurenlaan 268A avenue de Brussels,Tervueren1150
Recent EU cases include acting for Scania in the European Commission’s trucks cartel investi gation and related appeal proceedings before the General Court in Luxembourg and private damages claims, as well as advising major global banks in confidential and parallel antitrust investigations by various competition authorities, including the European Commission.
Peers and clients say: “Francesca is responsive, very knowledgeable and bold (when neces sary) as well as a pleasure to work with” “She has impressive analytical skills and the ability to quickly get to the core of any antitrust ”Sheproblem”isafantastic lawyer with in-depth expertise of the full lifecycle of cartel matters”
Niels Baeten Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates
Niels has also developed particular experience in EU state aid matters, specifically in the finan cial and energy sectors. He has also represented various multinationals on fiscal state aid matters before the European Commission (EC) and the EU courts.Niels also regularly acts for clients in anti trust investigations before the EC and the Belgian Competition Authority, as well as on appeals before the EU courts. Relevant work in this area includes advising Johnson & Johnson in one of the EC’s reverse payment investigations, and a Japanese automotive parts company as an immunity appli cant in a number of EC investigations.
Avenue Louise 480 Brussels, 1050 Tel: niels.baeten@skadden.com+3226390321www.skadden.com
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Peers and clients say: “Niels is a tactful, smooth and effective negotiator”
Sources commend his “great analytical skills”, “great grasp of the facts” and “practical approach”, and consider him a “thoughtful and an excellent communicator” and “pleasant and easy to deal with”. One client summarised: “With the pressure and demands of our multibillion-dollar deal on the line, Niels never alienated, was persuasive, did not grate on the opponent or regulator, and always had a clear sense of priority in recommending when to hold firm and when to yield. I could trust the deal in Niels’ hands and did.”
Niels’ practice covers all aspects of EU and inter national competition law, including merger control, state aid, abuse of dominance, cartels and antitrust compliance issues.
Tel: +32 2 780 29 francesca.miotto@allenovery.com17www.allenovery.com
Peers and clients say: “András is always enthusiastic about competition law and issues to be solved”
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Wey House Guildford, GU1 4YD Tel: +44 1483 robert.eriksson@stevens-bolton.com406436www.stevens-bolton.co.uk
René regularly advises on antitrust investi gations. He represents clients in investigations conducted by competition authorities as well as antitrust compliance audits and other internal investigations. His expertise covers the design, set up and execution of internal investigations, including the use of e-discovery software.
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Robert Eriksson Stevens & Bolton LLP
René has also extensive experience in complex merger control matters before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission. He frequently advises on competitive restraints in distribution agreements.
“I was particularly impressed by the highquality work Robert and his team provided in a short time-frame”
Robert has 20 years’ experience of advising on competition law from private practice in Brussels and London. He previously worked as a Senior Case Officer at the Swedish Competition Authority and is a former secondee to the FCA’s Competition Division.
A further focus of René’s practice is competi tion litigation. He represents clients seeking judi cial review against the decisions of competition authorities and in private enforcement actions, with particular expertise in follow-on damages actions, preliminary injunction cases, disputes concerning the legality of anticompetitive restraints in distri bution contracts and joint ventures. His extensive experience covers both the pretrial (negotiation) stage and representation in court.
Peers and clients say: “Rene is very “Heknowledgeable”isgreattowork with in complex merger control proceedings”
Peers and clients say: “Robert’s insights as to the CMA’s position and his assessment of the potential outcomes was impressive”
András M. Horváth
Hegymegi-Barakonyi and Partner Baker McKenzie
András was admitted to the Budapest Bar Association in 2012. He has obtained an LLM degree with competition law focus from City University London and obtained a PhD degree from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest based on his research on the regulation of antitrust damages. András publishes articles on antitrust damages and holds lectures in postgraduate competition law courses. He is an active member of the Hungarian Competition Law Association. Besides his native Hungarian, András speaks English and GermanDorottyafluently.
“He is extremely responsive and clear in conveying information”
Robert’s experience in cartel cases includes advising a pharmaceutical supplier on a CMA cartel investigation; a broker firm in relation to the LIBOR cartel investigation by the European Commission (EC) and related investigations by the FCA and the US Department of Justice; an individual on a multi-jurisdictional cartel investigation; and a trade association in relation to an antitrust investigation by the EC, including advice during the dawn raid and negotiating final commitments accepted by the EC. His merger control experience includes advising Post Office on its acquisition of Payzone Bill Payments, obtaining CMA’s unconditional merger control clearance in Phase 1; obtaining uncondi tional CMA merger control clearance under the De Minimis exception in the medical device sector; and advising various clients on merger control filings before the CMA and the EC.
“He is very experienced and has solid knowl edge in competition law”
“He offers quality, speed and technical knowledge”
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Robert has particular expertise in advising clients on merger control, national security matters, cartels and abuse of dominance inves tigations and has attended dawn raids both in private practice and for authorities. He also advises clients on compliance programmes and has broad sector coverage, including in particular retail, oil & gas, financial services and life sciences, including advising pharmaceutical clients on supply/IP licence agreements and patent litigation settlements.Clientspraise him for his insight from having worked for authorities and his willingness to go the extra mile, with his “advice balanced, clear and anchored in commercial reality”.
András joined the Competition practice group of Hegymegi-Barakonyi and Fehérváry Baker McKenzie’s Budapest office in 2015 as a senior associate and was promoted to counsel in 2020. Before joining Baker McKenzie, András previously practiced in the competition team of Dentons in Budapest. He also gained experience as a blue book trainee at DG Competition of the European Commission in Brussels in 2009.
András has more than ten years’ experience advising and representing clients in competition law matters. He represented grocery retail, banking, travel agency and recruitment clients in cartel cases; pharmaceutical and technology clients in abuse of dominance cases; and tech companies, OTAs and grocery retail clients in unfair commercial prac tices cases. András regularly advises automotive clients in connection with vertical competition law issues. He has experience in advising grocery retail clients on significant market power issues. András has represented energy, automotive and grocery retail clients in merger control cases. He advises banking and pharmaceutical clients regularly and waste management and brewery clients occasionally on compliance matters, preparing competition law compliance manuals and dawn raid manuals, as well as holding respective trainings for employees.
“Mr Eriksson is a trusted adviser in compe tition matters”
René is counsel in Allen & Overy’s Hamburg office. He advises on all aspects of German and EU competition law. He represents clients across all sectors, and in particular, consumer electronics, media, technology, retail, food, life sciences, real estate and shipping. He has a specific interest in the economics of competition law.
u. 6. Budapest, H-1051 Tel: + 36 1 302 andras.horvath@bakermckenzie.com3330www.bakermckenzie.com
René speaks on antitrust issues at confer ences and publishes articles in competi tion law journals. He is a member of the German Competition Lawyers’ Association and co-heads the Northern Germany region. Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competition practice comprises over 120 specialists operating across APAC, Europe and North America. The prac tice advises clients on their global antitrust transac tions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the highest-profile and most complex cases in the Ballinhof,market.Ballindamm 17 Hamburg, 20095 Tel: +49 40 82221 rene.galle@allenovery.com2141www.allenovery.com
Jaime has significant experience in merger filings to the European Commission and the Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC), and also handles multi-jurisdictional filings to other competition authorities worldwide. He has provided merger control advice to clients including Apax, Cepsa, Enagás, EQT, ICG, IIF, Mubadala, Naspers, Repsol and Talgo.
“She provides solid and thorough work with fast and high-quality deliverables”
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Jaime Rodriguez Allen & Overy LLP
Peers and clients say: “Jaime has built up an impressive boutique and does well on cartel damages litigation”
“He is rigorous yet accessible”
Tel: +41 43 222 16 allegra.schaer@homburger.ch23www.homburger.ch
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Allegra Arnold née Schär Homburger
Allegra Arnold has studied in Neuchâtel and London, and graduated in law from the University of Neuchâtel in 2013 (MLaw) and from King’s College London in 2014 (LL.M). After working at a district court and a litigation boutique law firm in Switzerland, she joined Homburger in HardstrassePrime2017.Tower201Zurich,8005
Amalie Wijesundera Schellenberg Wittmer
Peers and clients say: “She provides straight-forward communication”
(SAV).Löwenstrasse 19 Zurich, 8021 Tel: +41 44 215 amalie.wijesundera@swlegal.ch9364www.swlegal.ch
Peers and clients say: “She has rich “Amalieexperience”is extremely committed to her cases” • Zurich
Allegra Arnold is an associate in Homburger’s competition and regulatory teams. She focuses on Swiss and EU competition law, in particular merger control, cooperation and distribution agreements, as well as administrative and civil antitrust litigation matters.She advises companies in complex national and international merger control cases, ranging from advice on the structuring of a transaction and antitrust compliance in a merger context to multi-jurisdictional merger control. She also advises clients on various forms of cooperation and distribution agreements, both stand-alone as well as in a transactional context. Other focus areas include regulated markets (in particular, health and pharma, energy and infrastructure).
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Jaime also has substantial experience defending companies (including Altadis, a subsid iary of Imperial Brands Group; Hanson Hispania, a subsidiary of HeidelbergCement; PwC; and Thales), as well as trade associations, in infringement proceedings for alleged anticompetitive practices. His practice also covers setting up competition law compliance programmes for Spanish and interna tional clients, and advising large multinationals on state aid Jaimematters.frequently litigates before the Spanish Courts in competition law appeals. He also has experience defending clients before the European Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU.
”He has a tremendous clarity in written and spoken communication, strategic vision, substantive excellence”
Amalie’s expertise includes: Advising and representing Credit Suisse in investigations by the Swiss Competition Commission; coordinating the international merger control procedure for Panalpina Welttransport in more than 12 jurisdic tions; and representing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in the Swiss review of the merger with PSA Group. Other clients Amalie has worked for as lead asso ciate with regard to competition, antitrust, merger control and investigations matters are inter alia Adobe, Husqvarna, Goldman Sachs, SIX Group, CSL Behring, Lonza, Conforama, TE Connectivity and VaroAmalieEnergy.studied law at the University of Bern (MLaw 2010) and was admitted to the Bar in 2013. Before joining Schellenberg Wittmer, she was a research officer in the Services Division of the Secretariat of the Competition Commission of Switzerland.Amalie is inter alia a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV (Antitrust Law Association), the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV) and the Swiss Bar Association
Jaime’s sectoral expertise includes IT, energy, infrastructure, construction, foodstuff, retail, medical devices and provision of professional services.Hehas
over 18 years of experience and since 2014 has been listed by relevant directories as among the top competition law practitioners in Spain.Allen & Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the Madrid,Serranomarket.7328006
“Allegra is a reliable lawyer with an excellent knowledge of competition law”
Jaime Rodríguez is counsel in the antitrust and European law group of Allen & Overy Spain.
Amalie Wijesundera is a senior associate in Schellenberg Wittmer’s competition and antitrust law team in Zurich. Her main areas of practice are national and multi-jurisdictional merger control procedures, cartel and abuse of dominance investi gations, dawn raids, internal investigations, compli ance, and leniency procedures.
Tel: +34 91 782 99 jaime.rodriguez@allenovery.com52www.allenovery.com
Peers and clients say: “Wei-Han is very effi cient and handles TFTC matters smoothly”
51 West 52nd Street New York, 10019
Franco Castelli joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Antitrust Department in 2005. He focuses on analysis of competition issues in U.S. and crossborder mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Mr. Castelli has represented clients before the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, as well as other antitrust regulatory agencies. He has worked on transactions involving a wide variety of industries, most recently representing companies in the hightech, stock exchange, pharmaceutical, oil and gas and chemical industries. Mr. Castelli has served as a guest lecturer on antitrust law at the Law School of the University of Milan, Italy.
Among other matters, Mr. Castelli repre sented Expedia in its acquisition of Orbitz, which was named by Global Competition Review as Merger Control Matter of 2015 in the Americas, and in its acquisition of HomeAway; Actelion in its sale to Johnson & Johnson; Analog Devices in its acquisition of Linear Technology Corporation; Cox Automotive in its acquisition of Dealertrack Technologies; Nasdaq in its acquisition of the International Securities Exchange; NYSE Euronext in its sale to InterContinental Exchange, its later-abandoned merger with Deutsche Börse, and its acquisition of the American Stock Exchange; BGC Partners in its acquisition of GFI Group, its sale of Trayport to InterContinental Exchange, and its sale of eSpeed to Nasdaq; Covidien in its sale to Medtronic; Mallinckrodt in its acquisitions of Therakos, Ikaria, Questcor Pharmaceuticals and Cadence Pharmaceuticals; El Paso in its sale to Kinder Morgan; Copano Energy in its sale to Kinder Morgan; Rohm and Haas in its sale to Dow Chemical; XPO Logistics in its acquisitions of Norbert Dentressangle S.A. and Conway; Chicago Bridge & Iron in its acquisition of Shaw Group; URS in its merger with AECOM Technology; and AMB Property Corporation in its merger with ProLogis.
Wei-Han Wu is an associate partner at Lee and Li and a core member of the firm’s competition law practice group.
“She has strong relationships with regu lators so she knows what they need and expect”
Ms Wu completed her LLM at Northwestern University (2008) and holds a master’s degree in law (2007) and a bachelor’s degree in law (2004) from National Taiwan University. She is a member of the Taipei Bar Association and the New York Bar Association.
8F, No. 555, Sec. 4 Zhongxiao E. Rd Taipei, 11072 Tel: +886 2 2763 weihanwu@leeandli.com8000www.leeandli.com
Peers and clients say: “He is great for advice on cross-border transactions”
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Franco Castelli Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Ms Wu’s experience extends to all areas of competition law practices covering merger control, cartel leniency applications, abuse investigations, vertical agreements and unfair trade matters. She has a wealth of expertise representing domestic and multinational clients before the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission and regularly appears in proceed ings before the administrative courts in Taiwan. She also assists clients on setting up antitrust compliance programs in relation to dawn raids, whistle-blowing and other internal audit systems. Her practice spans a wide range of sectors, with a focus on high-tech, e-commerce, semiconductor, specialty chemicals, pharmaceutical and consumer goods. She has lectured and published articles on a variety of Taiwan competition law topics, in both Chinese and English.
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Mr. Castelli is a member of the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of the City of New York.
Mr. Castelli received a J.D. from the University of Milan in 2001 and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2005, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Mr. Castelli was selected as a “Future Leader” by Who’s Who Legal: Competition in 2017 and has been listed as a Rising Star in the 2015 and 2016 New York – Metro edition of Super Lawyers.
Tel: +1 212 403 fcastelli@wlrk.com1355www.wlrk.com
“Franco is a leader in the field” • New York
”Ms Wu’s responsive and pragmatic approach is really appreciated”
In addition to antitrust cases, Ms Wu also advises on mergers and acquisitions cases, and has experience in handling anti-corruption, intellectual property and personal data protection issues.
Wei-Han Wu Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law
Peers and clients say: “Kail is very knowl edgeable about antitrust issues and an excellent communicator”
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Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KGaA on its defence in the litigation, In re Namenda Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litig.; WillScot on its USD6.6 billion merger with Mobile Mini; global healthcare company BTG on its US$4.2 billion acquisition by Boston Scientific; Fresenius Kabi on its agreement to acquire Akorn Inc. for US$4.3 billion (abandoned for non-antitrust reasons); United Airlines, on its defence in the litigation, DPWN Holdings (USA), Inc. v. United Airlines, Inc.; Tullett Prebon on its US$1.68 billion acquisition of the global voice and hybrid broking business of ICAP; and Experian plc on its US$360 million acquisition of CSIdentity Corp.
”She has an excellent antitrust practice”
Tel: +1 212 261 kjethmalani@axinn.com5649www.axinn.com
”He asks the right questions and quickly gets to the heart of legal issues”
Puja has published several articles in the antitrust space and currently serves as Vice Chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Diversity Advanced Committee and an Executive Member of the NYSBA Antitrust Section.
She received her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law and BS from New York University.Allen& Overy’s global antitrust and competi tion practice comprises over 120 specialists oper ating across APAC, Europe and North America. The practice advises clients on their global antitrust transactions, investigations, policies, litigation and regulatory strategies, and acts on some of the high est-profile and most complex cases in the market.
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Puja Patel is an associate and member of Allen & Overy’s US antitrust practice. Puja advises clients on all aspects of the merger review process, including Second Request investigations, antitrust risk assessments, SPA aspects, multi-jurisdictional filing analysis, and HSR compliance. She also has significant experience in representing clients in complex antitrust litigation matters, from fact and expert discovery, pleadings and motions, to settle ment strategy. Puja additionally counsels clients on complex, high-stakes issues including compet itor collaborations, vertical arrangements, joint ventures, and Section 8 interlocking directorate issues. Throughout her career, Puja has worked on dozens of complex cross-border matters in a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, financial services, technology, airlines, industrials, and food/agriculture.Puja’srecentexperience includes advising:
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Peers and clients say: “Puja is a talented merger control lawyer”
Kail was on the Axinn teams nominated for Global Competition Review’s Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defence Award in 2021 for their work on behalf of Tyson Foods in the broiler chicken litigation and in 2018 for their work on behalf of Nishikawa Rubber Company in the auto parts liti gation. The award recognises “creative, strategic and innovative litigation on behalf of a defendant in a private action for cartel damages”.
Kail is currently part of the ABA antitrust law section’s leadership. He is also a regular contrib utor to publications and speaking engagements on antitrust and competition law
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Kail advises clients in both domestic and crossborder transactions, representing them before the US DOJ; the FTC; and competition regulators in Europe, China, Korea, Japan, India and other juris dictions. He recently advised, among others, Dell in its US$67 billion acquisition of EMC; Tyson Foods in its acquisition of Keystone Foods and American Proteins; and Thermo Fisher in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Affymetrix.
Kail Jethmalani Axinn
Kail Jethmalani counsels clients in all areas of anti trust and competition law, including high-stakes litigation, strategic M&A, sensitive government and internal investigations, and corporate counselling.
Kail currently represents Tyson Foods in its defence of two major treble-damage class action litigations, alleging industry-wide conspiracies to raise the prices of broiler chickens and pork, and to depress poultry grower pay. He also represents Independence Blue Cross in the largest antitrust class action in US history.
47th Street New York, 10036-1510
”He is great at working directly with clients, particularly non-lawyers”
1221 Avenue of the Americas New York, 10020 Tel: +1 212 610 puja.patel@allenovery.com6311www.allenovery.com
”She is an excellent attorney who is very active in the field”
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Francesca Miotto* Allen & Overy LLP francesca.miotto@allenovery.com
CERHA HEMPEL Rechtsanwälte GmbH michael.mayer@chsh.com
Gian Diego Pini
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates andreas.kafetzopoulos@skadden.com Ana Raquel Lapresta Uría Menéndez
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32 Old Slip New York, 10005 Tel: +1 212 701 lrackow@cahill.com3725www.cahill.com
Marval O’Farrell Mairal icm@marval.com Mercedes Pando Beccar Varela mpando@beccarvarela.com
Recently,compliance. Lauren advised ICON plc in its $12 billion acquisition of PRA Health Sciences, forming one of the world’s leading contract research organ izations; Envigo RMS Holding Corp. in connection with its acquisition by Inotiv, Inc.; PharmaMar in its exclusive license of small cell lung cancer drug lurbinectedin to Jazz Pharmaceuticals Ireland Limited in the USA; Envigo International Holdings in the sale of its non-clinical contract research services business to LabCorp, and simultaneous purchase by an Envigo subsidiary of LabCorp’s research products business; CocaCola Enterprises in merger with Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränk; and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. in various transactions.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates niels.baeten@skadden.com Katharina Bongs
Neil Hoolihan
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Erik Venot Linklaters LLP erik.venot@linklaters.com
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Allen & Overy LLP stefanie.benson@allenovery.com Patrick Clark Herbert Smith Freehills patrick.clark@hsf.com Elizabeth Hersey Clifford Chance elizabeth.hersey@cliffordchance.com
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates giandiego.pini@skadden.com
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates thorsten.goetz@skadden.com
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Clemens Ziegler
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP marixeniadavilla@quinnemanuel.com Marjolein De Backer Dechert LLP marjolein.debacker@dechert.com
Melissa Van Schoorisse Covington & Burling LLP mvanschoorisse@cov.com
Covington & Burling LLP azulli@cov.com
MichaelAustriaMayer
Lauren acts as antitrust counsel to the financing sources in many major acquisitions featuring significant debt financings, including some of the largest buyouts in US history, and other significant transactions. On the litigation side, Lauren has most recently represented Credit Suisse in U.S. litigation relating to the alleged manipulation of the US Dollar and CHF London Inter-Bank Offered Rate.
Rita Motta
Dimitris Vallindas
Geoff Petersen* Gilbert + Tobin gpetersen@gtlaw.com.au
Nick Wolfe
Lauren Rackow Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek NV zeynep.ortac@debrauw.com
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates nick.wolfe@skadden.com
Andrea Zulli
Lauren writes and speaks frequently on anti trust topics. She co-chairs the healthcare and pharmaceuticals committee of the ABA antitrust law section; and is a member of the executive committee of the New York State Bar Association antitrust law section. Lauren also served as a member of the NYC Bar Association antitrust and trade regulation committee. Lauren is recognised as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA for antitrust in the New York region and named a recommended antitrust lawyer by The Legal 500
Omar Diaz BonelliErede omar.diaz@belex.com Stéphane Dionnet
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates stephane.dionnet@skadden.com Anthemis Economou Latham & Watkins LLP anthemis.economou@lw.com
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A top-tier lawyer with vast international ”Laurenexperience”isa great lawyer with deep knowl edge of US merger control”
Jan Jeram
Thorsten C Goetz
Nominees have been selected based on independentcomprehensive,surveywork with both general counsel and private practitioners worldwide.
Andreas Kafetzopoulos
Zeynep Ortac
Stefanie Stegbauer Schoenherr Attorneys At Law s.stegbauer@schoenherr.eu
May Lyn Yuen Hogan Lovells International LLP maylyn.yuen@hoganlovells.com
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP peter.rowland@hsf.com
raquel.lapresta@uria.com
Anita Thompson Allens anita.thompson@allens.com.au Tihana Zuk Ashurst tihana.zuk@ashurst.com
Peers and clients say: “She has an excel lent ability to explain and understand the client’s needs””
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP dvallindas@sheppardmullin.com
Lauren Rackow’s practice is focused on a wide range of antitrust matters, M&A, complex antitrust litigation, government investigations, and financing transactions with potential for antitrust risk and antitrust
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Dario Cadena Lleras Lloreda Camacho & Co dcadena@lloredacamacho.com
Aude Guyon
Katherine Kirrage
Emma Radcliffe
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP marie-claire.strawbridge@freshfields.com
Suzy Campbell
Bech-Bruun mag@bechbruun.com
Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP matthew.yeowart@davispolk.com
Estelle Jégou White & Case LLP estelle.jegou@whitecase.com
Esguerra Asesores Jurídicos dbeltran@esguerra.com
Linklaters LLP eram.khan@linklaters.com
Claudia Mercer
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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (London) LLP neda.moussavi@friedfrank.com
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Clifford Chance LLP chandralekha.ghosh@cliffordchance.com
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Alison Berridge Monckton Chambers aberridge@monckton.com
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP francois.gordon@freshfields.com
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Linklaters LLP meredith.brooks@linklaters.com
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Michelle Rosswick
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP karen.bonneslaney@freshfields.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP mary.wilks@freshfields.com Philip Woolfe Monckton Chambers pwoolfe@monckton.com Matthew Yeowart
Fabara & Compañía Abogados dcastelo@fabara.ec
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Kambourov & Partners Attorneys at Law yotov@kambourov.biz
AlanEnglandBates
Baker McKenzie karoline.phillips@bakermckenzie.com
TGS Baltic katri.paas@tgsbaltic.com
Orrick Rambaud Martel SCP midri@orrick.com
Osborne Clarke LLP katherine.kirrage@osborneclarke.com
Blackstone Chambers tristanjones@blackstonechambers.com
Stevens & Bolton LLP robert.eriksson@stevens-bolton.com Chandralekha Ghosh
Addleshaw Goddard LLP Paul.Chaplin@addleshawgoddard.com Gabriela Da Costa K&L Gates LLP gabriela.dacosta@klgates.com
Christon Shenolikar
Dittmar & Indrenius
MarkDenmarkGall
Slaughter and May michelle.rosswick@slaughterandmay.com
Kate McNeece McCarthy Tétrault LLP kmcneece@mccarthy.ca
DanielEcuadorCastelo Guerro
Petra Carey
Slaughter and May aurora.luoma@slaughterandmay.com
Plamen Yotov
XiChinaLiao
Nicolás Cardona Baquero Brigard & Urrutia Abogados ncardona@bu.com.co
Zhao Sheng Law Firm xi.liao@linklaterszs.com
Paul Chaplin
Neda Moussavi
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP christon.shenolikar@hsf.com
T&D Associates wesley.wang@tdlawyers.com
Angelica Navarro Acevedo Baker McKenzie Colombia SA angelica.navarro@bakermckenzie.com
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP pstuart@cgsh.com
Chimène Faurant
Clifford Chance LLP petra.carey@cliffordchance.com
Eram Khan
Emily Xueref-Poviac Clifford Chance Europe LLP emily.xuerefpoviac@cliffordchance.com
Karen Slaney
François Gordon
Proskauer Rose cmercer@proskauer.com
MatthieuFranceBlayney
Marie-Claire Strawbridge
Murray Reeve Slaughter and May murray.reeve@slaughterandmay.com
Karoline (Karolina) Phillips
Andrew North Herbert Smith Freehills LLP andrew.north@hsf.com
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Zirjan Derwa Bennett Jones LLP derwaz@bennettjones.com
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Laura Liu Baker McKenzie LLP laura.liu@bakermckenzie.com
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Linklaters LLP matthieu.blayney@linklaters.com Patrice Boulkeroua Grall & Associés Avocats pboulkeroua@grall-legal.fr Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson Linklaters LLP charlotte.colin-dubuisson@linklaters.com Guillaume Fabre Bredin Prat guillaumefabre@bredinprat.com
Michael Rosenstock Stikeman Elliott LLP mrosenstock@stikeman.com
Annalisa Tosdevin Slaughter and May annalisa.tosdevin@slaughterandmay.com Alice Wallace-Wright Hogan Lovells International LLP alice.wallace-wright@hoganlovells.com Mary Wilks
De Pardieu Brocas Maffei faurant@de-pardieu.com
Monckton Chambers alan.bates@reddie.co.uk
heidi.muukkonen@dittmar.fi
De Pardieu Brocas Maffei gavoty@de-pardieu.com
Naomi Burgoyne Slaughter and May naomi.burgoyne@slaughterandmay.com
TGS Baltic triinu.jarviste@tgsbaltic.com Katri Paas-Mohando
Thomas McGrath
Richard Maliniak
Maria Jose Villalon Carey mjvillalon@carey.cl
Meredith Brooks
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP thomas.mcgrath@freshfields.com
DanielColombiaBeltrán
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría alvaro.espinosa@ppulegal.com
Macfarlanes LLP emma.radcliffe@macfarlanes.com
Paul Stuart
Anne Jussiaux Bredin Prat annejussiaux@bredinprat.com
Tristan Jones
Wesley Wang
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP frank.felgentraeger@freshfields.com
Hogan Lovells International LLP elena.wiese@hoganlovells.com
Fabiana Campopiano Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners fcampopiano@gattai.it Carlo Edoardo Cazzato Lipani Catricala & Partners cecazzato@lipani.it Alessandro Di Giò
KatharinaGermanyApel
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co ritwik.bhattacharya@amsshardul.com Rahul Rai AZB & Partners
Christoph Wilken Hengeler Mueller christoph.wilken@hengeler.com
Bitonto BonelliErede giorgio.bitonto@belex.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP bertrand.guerin@freshfields.com
SeungKoreaHwan (Miles) Chung Kim & Chang miles.chung@kimchang.com Maria Hajiyerou Kim & Chang maria.hajiyerou@kimchang.com Tae Hyuk Ko Kim & Chang taehyuk.ko@kimchang.com Hemi Lee Kim & Chang hemi.lee@kimchang.com
Iris Benedikt-Buckenleib Gleiss Lutz
Elena Wiese
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP kapel@cgsh.com
Sarah Milde Hengeler Mueller sarah.milde@hengeler.com Mariusz Motyka-Mojkowski
Samuel Hiebendaal Bell Gully sam.hiebendaal@bellgully.com
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Allen & Overy LLP rene.galle@allenovery.com
rahul.rai@azbpartners.com Dhruv Rajain
JuanSpainPassás
Gleiss Lutz ines.bodenstein@gleisslutz.com
Hengeler Mueller stefanie.budde@hengeler.com
Ralf Willer Hengeler Mueller ralf.willer@hengeler.com
Hegymegi-Barakonyi and Partner Baker McKenzie andras.horvath@bakermckenzie.com Ákos Kovách
Bertrand Guerin
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP alessandro.digio@freshfields.com Gianluca Faella
Fabian Stancke Dentons
Schoenherr si Asociatii SCA m.banu@schoenherr.eu Lucian Bozian
MonaRomaniaBanu
Kaan Gürer
Juliane Ziebarth
Miura & Partners masayuki.atsumi@miura-partners.com Michio Suzuki Baker McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise) michio.suzuki@bakermckenzie.com
Stefan Horn Taylor Wessing PartGmbB s.horn@taylorwessing.com
Engling Stritter and Partners alouw@englinglaw.com.na
Pinsent Masons laura.stammwitz@pinsentmasons.com
AleineMexicoObregon
AndrásHungaryM.Horváth*
iris.benedikt-buckenleib@gleisslutz.com
AEQUITAS Law Firm LLP a.kornilova@aequitas.kz
Hogan Lovells International LLP lukas.rengier@hoganlovells.com
Hong Kong
Hogan Lovells akos.kovach@hoganlovells.co.hu Anna Turi Schoenherr a.turi@schoenherr.eu
AnnaKazakhstanKornilova
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP gfaella@cgsh.com
NautaDutilh NV nima.lorje@nautadutilh.com Elske Raedts Stibbe elske.raedts@stibbe.com
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP juliane.ziebarth@freshfields.com
RitwikIndiaBhattacharya
AnnaPolandLaszczyk
Howard Chan
Atsumi
Slaughter and May paddy.law@slaughterandmay.com Donald Pan Baker McKenzie donald.pan@bakermckenzie.com
AletNamibiaLouw
Lukas Rengier
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Linklaters C. Wiśniewski i Wspólnicy Spółka Komandytowa anna.laszczyk@linklaters.com Agata Zawłocka-Turno Linklaters C. Wiśniewski i Wspólnicy Spółka Komandytowa agata.zawłocka-turno@linklaters.com
Nicolas Zacharie Linklaters LLP nicolas.zacharie@linklaters.com
New Zealand
Linklaters LLP kaan.guerer@linklaters.com
Jonas Brückner Baker McKenzie jonas.brueckner@bakermckenzie.com
Nortons Inc m.currie@primerio.international Leana Engelbrecht Herbert Smith Freehills South Africa LLP leana.engelbrecht@hsf.com
Ingo Klauß Linklaters LLP ingo.klauss@linklaters.com
South Michael-JamesAfricaCurrie
Linklaters SLP juan.passas@linklaters.com Jaime Rodriguez* Allen & Overy LLP jaime.rodriguez@allenovery.com
Stefanie Budde
D&B David si Baias SCA lucian.bozian@david-baias.ro Georgeta Gavriloiu Filip & Company georgeta.gavriloiu@filipandcompany.com
Thomas Jenkins Baker McKenzie tom.jenkins@bakermckenzie.com Paddy Law
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Frank Felgenträger
fabian.stancke@dentons.com
Gregor Wecker Gleiss Lutz gregor.wecker@gleisslutz.com
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez SC aleine.obregon@creel.mx
Ines Bodenstein
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP mariusz.motyka-mojkowski@freshfields.com
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas dhruv.rajain@cyrilshroff.com Kirthi Srinivas Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas kirthi.srinivas@cyrilshroff.com
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Hogan Lovells Studio Legale luigi.nascimbene@hoganlovells.com Riccardo Pennisi
Herbert Smith Freehills howard.chan@hsf.com
GiorgioItaly
MasayukiJapan
Simmons & Simmons LLP riccardo.pennisi@simmons-simmons.com
Laura Stammwitz
Wei-HanTaiwanWu*
javier.torrecilla@ashurst.com
New York Franco Castelli* Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz fcastelli@wlrk.com
Acevedo Advokat AB andres@acevedolaw.eu Mårten Nicolin Mannheimer Swartling Marten.Nicolin@msa.se
Latham & Watkins LLP patrick.english@lw.com
Kail Jethmalani* Axinn kjethmalani@axinn.com Puja Patel* Allen & Overy LLP puja.patel@allenovery.com Lauren Rackow* Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP lrackow@cahill.com
ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law ceren.ozkanli@elig.com
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Pennsylvania Julia Chapman Dechert LLP julia.chapman@dechert.com
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP amaury.sibon@skadden.com
Lindsey Vaala Vinson & Elkins LLP lvaala@velaw.com
Massachusetts Deidre J Johnson Ropes & Gray LLP deidre.johnson@ropesgray.com
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP mbachrack@cgsh.com
John Goheen
Bernhard Lauterburg Prager Dreifuss Ltd bernhard.lauterburg@prager-dreifuss.com
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Zurich
Amaury Sibon
Berne
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP john.goheen@stblaw.com Aleksandr Livshits
Deniz Özkan Paksoy dozkan@paksoy.av.tr
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USA
California
Meaghan Thomas-Kennedy Latham & Watkins LLP meaghan.p.kennedy@lw.com
James Goldfeier Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP james.goldfeier@stblaw.com
Allegra Arnold née Schär* Homburger allegra.schaer@homburger.ch
Amalie Wijesundera* Schellenberg Wittmer amalie.wijesundera@swlegal.ch
Switzerland
Samlı
Patrick English
ECONOMISTS
Editorial policy and selection criteria
Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.
Nominees have been selected based on comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practitioners worldwide.
StefaniaEnglandGerminario of Frontier Economics comes highly recommended by respondents as “an analytical and vigorous economist who is approachable”.
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Helen Ralston with Oxera is a standout competition economist in the market, with sources saying she is “first class”.
RomanBelgiumFischer at Charles River Associates is lauded by market commentators as “an intelligent economist who is always to the point and a pleasure working with”.
WWL does not list firms, only individual experts. The leading firms are those in each region whose listed practitioners received the most total nominations in our research. We highlight individuals at other firms who also scored very highly in our research.
Compass Lexecon London Roy Shalem
Compass Lexecon
Tim Reuter RBB Economics Düsseldorf
Andrew Swan
Laura Phaff is a respected name in the UK’s competition market and is known as “a strong former agency economist”.
METHODOLOGY
The Global Elite Thought Leaders are those individuals who received the highest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel and other market sources this year. Our research has identified them as being truly outstanding practitioners and the very best in their field.
OlivierFranceSautel at Deloitte is a standout competition economist in France, with over 15 years of experience on regulatory and policy issues in the space.
Frich at Gorrissen Federspiel receives comprehensive endorsements for her competition expertise as an economist, with experience advising clients across a variety of sectors.
NicolaGermanyTosini of NERA Economic Consulting is counted among the rising stars in Germany, and his “advice is straight to the point and meets exactly the client's needs”.
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Patricia Lorenzo has built and maintains a sterling competition practice in Europe and is well versed in merger and damages analyses.
OTHER LEADING INDIVIDUALS
In this chapter, WWL proudly presents 47 competition economists who are the rising stars of their field thanks to their impressive advisory and testifying work on behalf of domestic and international clients across a wide range of sectors.
LEADING FIRMS
KPMG Economics’ Adam Rivers is a key name in the UK market as he leads the firm’s gaming and betting group, and is wellversed in demand, market size and regulatory analyses.
Andrew Swan sits among the brightest stars of the competition market, with sources saying he is “a great economist with a hands-on approach”.
EMEA
Roman Fischer Charles River Associates Brussels
Lau Nilausen is a favourite among peers and clients, who recommend him as “an intelligent, meticulous, and knowledgeable economist”.
Most highly regarded
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Orjan Sandewall impresses commen tators with his competition expertise and is recommended as “a thorough practitioner who is able to build solid arguments and master the details”.
Numerics Economic & Financial Consulting Tel Aviv
Christopher Milde gains comprehensive endorsements for his competition work, with sources confirming that he is “a tough oppo nent, as well as a smart and a fast thinker”.
at Numerics Economic & Financial Consulting earns plaudits as “a highly regarded competition economist” with
economist in the US, who is “practical and detail oriented”.
Bryan Ricchetti comes highly recom mended for his “insightful comments and economic advice, which always reflect a keen understanding of the relevant legal issues”.
Bryan Ricchetti
LEADING FIRMS
Chuck Fields is “a smart, well-organised, and creative economist” and “is extremely good at translating between economists and attorneys”.
Tim Reuter cuts a distinguished figure in the competition space, where he is lauded as “an excellent economist and a pleasure to work with”.
TimothyUSA
Cornerstone Research Chicago
Shireen Meer has “very strong written analysis capabilities” and ensures “clarity of analysis, responsiveness, and a thorough approach”.
Dimitri Dimitropoulos receives impres sive recognition from peers and clients, thanks to his polished work on mergers, anticompetitive conduct and damages issues.
Alia Schweiger with E.CA Economics
Most highly regarded
Edgeworth Economics
PatriciaSpain
Berkeley Research Group
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at The Brattle Group takes a place among Canada’s brightest stars in competi tion economics and brings over a decade of experience in merger analyses.
Lorenzo of Compass Lexecon sits among Spain’s rising stars when it comes to competition economics. She is well versed in merger, damages and conduct issues.
vast experience across the gamut of compe tition matters.
Vivek Mani of Cornerstone Research is iden tified by sources as a go-to name for a range of competition issues, including cartels and mergers in the US and EU.
NERA Economic Consulting New York
IanCanadaCass
RBB Economics’ Annabelle Jochem receives extensive recommendations for her competi tion skill and experience and is known as “a precise and efficient economist”.
Mario Lopez at Charles River Associates is an established name in the North American antitrust and competition market, with special expertise the telecommunications, pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.
Kevin Christensen is an economist who “on the pharma side has done more than anti trust, which informs any analysis one might need on an antitrust matter”.
“impresses with her farsighted approach to economic analyses. She has a keen eye for the required level of detail”.
Timothy Watts
NORTH AMERICA
David Colino “has a strong understanding of how expert economic testimony can fit into and support a larger litigation strategy. This makes him not only an excellent expert on economic issues, but also a valuable sounding board for such matters as discovery and motions strategy.”
OTHER LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Watts with NERA Economic Consulting is a standout competition
Hong Kong Compass Lexecon’s Dennis Beling “impresses most with his ability to explain complicated economic concepts in simple language to lawyers”.
AndrésBrazil Osorio Tocornal with Econsult Advogados e Consultores Associados is a favourite among peers and clients and possesses “outstanding skills as an economist”.
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MostASIA-PACIFIChighlyregarded
LATIN AMERICA
VishalIndia
ChrisAustraliaWhelan at RBB Economics is a highly sought-after economist report peers, who say he “has a great manner, is very thorough and writes well”.
LipSingaporeHangPoh of Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow is “extremely thorough, has good standing with antitrust regulators, and is strategic in helping companies deal with antitrust regulators”.
in the complicated matters where we typically face various challenges, including time and data constraints and the sheer complexity of issues involved'.
VincentPeru
Bronwyn Taylor of HoustonKemp Economists impresses peers and clients with the strength of her practice, which encompasses merger analyses across a range of sectors including the finance, retail and energy sectors, among others.
RBB Economics Melbourne
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
New WilliamZealandTaylorat NERA Economic Consulting earns high praise for his competition prac tice, with commentators confirming that he is “an excellent competition economist”.
respondents as a top-tier competition econ omist, with a special focus on drug pricing issues.
Narula with Alvarez & Marsal offers clients “proactiveness, subject matter exper tise, a practical approach, and effective communication”.
Poblete at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile is recognised by
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Guillermo Paraje of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez is a respected economist in the Chilean market and is described by sources as “an upcoming leader in the field”.
KeitaJapanFukunaga of AlixPartners “consist ently delivers solid and practical outcomes
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Poirier-Garneau with APOYO Consultoria enjoys a sterling reputation among peers in the Peruvian market, due to his standout work on cartels, abuse of domi nance and regulatory issues.
Tel: +44 dessens@e-ca.com7480322314www.e-ca.com
“Iona is confident, articulate and very tech nically able”
Peers and clients say: “Mr Dessens has impressive analytical skills”
Iona is a professional economist with 20 years of experience. She specialises in competition and regulatory matters and has an established repu tation for delivering rigorous economic analysis for clients both as an adviser and an expert witness, in particular with respect to anti-competitive agree ments, abuse of dominance infringements and associated private damages claims.
“She produces sound and thorough analysis which demonstrates command of the under lying detail”
Peers and clients say: “Patrick is a very sharp-minded economic consultant”
Patrick Andreoli-Versbach
Charles River Associates
Iona McCall AlixPartners UK LLP
In his research focussing on applied econo metrics and competition policy he published five papers in international peer-reviewed scholarly journals including International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Competition Law & Economics and Research Policy
Bas also co-authored E.CA Economics’ ex-post evaluation of vertical mergers, which was commis sioned by the CMA. Bas holds master’s degrees from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the Humboldt University of Berlin in the areas of busi ness and economics.
She has acted for the UK, EC, Dutch and French competition authorities, as well as lawyers and businesses on competition matters across a range of sectors including financial services, digital markets, transport, healthcare and pharmaceuticals.Ionahaswide experience estimating damages in the context of both group claims and CPOs. Recent cases include trucks, forex, and auto motive bearings. Iona has also advised clients in complex market investigations including secondary ticketing, credit reference agencies and loan syndication.Sheis a founding member of W@ CompetitionUK and she has written and spoken widely on competition and litigation matters. In 2021, Iona was named by Who’s Who Legal as a “Future Leader” in the field of competition economics.Ionaholds an MSc Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc (First) in Economics and French from the University of Birmingham. Iona also spent a year studying economics at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Recently, he successfully managed Nexi’s acquisition of SIA in the payment industry, a complex deal involving eleven affected markets across the entire payment services value chain. He was also in charge of Nexi’s acquisitions of Intesa Sanpaolo’s merchant book and Nets, both cleared at EC level in Phase I without remedies. Besides mergers he has been involved in high-profile abuse of dominance cases involving exclusionary and exploitative prac tices for both Apple and Amazon, as well as damage estimations.Recent clients include Private Equity firms (Advent, Bain Capital, CVC and Hg Capital), BigTech (Amazon, Microsoft and Apple), energy companies (ENEL, Shell and BP), Payment Service Providers (Nexi, Intesa Sanpaolo and Bancomat), and other companies including Unilever, Expedia, General Motors, Open Fiber and Philips.
“He is a team player and very pleasant to work with”
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Working Languages: English, Italian and German Education: Ph.D. Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University & Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition; M.Sc. Economics and Management (Distinction), London School of Economics; B.A. in Economics (110 cum laude), Bocconi University
“Bas has the ability to analyse and oversee matters quickly and to translate his views and findings into realistic strategic advice”
Dr. Patrick Andreoli-Versbach is Director, Italy within CRA’s Antitrust Practice, based in Rome. He leads large antitrust cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities, mostly the AGCM. As an expert in antitrust economics, he has an in-depth knowledge of assessing market power in large mergers, estimating damages resulting from anticompetitive conduct, and using economic analysis to evaluate the ability and incentive of firms to abuse their (alleged) dominance.
Peers and clients say: “She is a fantastic communicator, and is particularly good at breaking down difficult economic concepts into plain English”
Bas Dessens
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Bas Dessens is a Director at E.CA Economics in London and has over 15 years of experience in the field of competition economics. In particular, his work has focused on damage assessments related to cartel and information exchange cases (e.g. trucks, smart card chips, air cargo) and economic analysis in the context of merger proceedings (e.g. EssilorLuxottica/GrandVision, Holcim/Lafarge, Knauf/Armstrong). Bas was further involved in cases related to state aid, abuse of dominance and regu latoryBas’smatters.sector experience covers a broad range of industries including transport, lifts, advertising, online platforms, pharmaceuticals, beverage distri bution, beer, eyewear, grocery retail, telecommuni cations, payment cards/interchange fees, auditing services, film distribution, forklift trucks, gas-in sulated switchgear and a range of commodity industries.Bassupported clients on cases brought before the European Commission, the German Bundeskartellamt, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets and the Belgian Competition Authority. Bas was seconded to the UK Competition Commission (the CMA’s predecessor), where he worked on several merger proceedings and a market investigation.
Tel: +32 2 627 pandreoli-versbach@crai.com1400www.crai.com
”He has built an impressive career in compe tition economics”
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Thomas holds a Doctoral degree in Economics from Humboldt University as well as a double Diploma degree in Economics from Humboldt University and the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique (ENSAE) Paris. In his research, Thomas has focussed on two-sided markets and financial economics. His work has been published in leading international peer-re viewed journals such as Management Science, Economics Letters and Research Policy
Tel: + 49 30 212 hildebrand@e-ca.com31-7083www.e-ca.com
In particular, Alia has advised on multiple complex transactions that raise horizontal, vertical and conglomerate concerns brought up at the European Commission, the German Bundeskartellamt and other national competition authorities. Leading casework includes Kronospan/ Pfleiderer Polska, Remondis/DSD, RHI/Magnesita, Novomatic/Casino Austria, Immonet/Immowelt and EDEKA/Kaiser’s Tengelmann
Alia is specialised in applying qualitative and quantitative economic analysis. She has worked on a large variety of Article 102 TFEU cases and cases involving vertical restraints, with a particular focus on network industries and (digital) platform markets.
Thomas has worked on cases brought before the European Commission, the German Bundeskartellamt and the Swiss Competition Commission (WEKO) as well as on private liti gation matters. His industry experience spans a broad variety of fields including grocery retailing, fast-moving consumer goods, chemicals, cement, refractories, automotive parts, freight forwarding, print/television/online advertising and digital markets. Thanks to his empirically informed background, Thomas has particular expertise in applying statistical and econometric methods to cartel cases and merger proceedings.
Alia Schweiger is an associate principal at E.CA Economics in Berlin. She has extensive experience in providing economic advice to clients from a wide range of industries and across all fields of compe tition policy, including cartels, mergers, abuse of a dominant position and state aid cases.
Peers and clients say: “Alia impressed me with her farsighted approach to economic “Sheanalyses”has a keen eye for the required level of detail while keeping sight of all ‘balls in the air’”
Peers and clients say: “He is very respon sive and ”Thomasreliable”isanexcellent economist who is diligent and pragmatic”
Dr Thomas Hildebrand is a Director at E.CA Economics. He has more than 10 years of expe rience supporting clients across various fields of competition economics, with a particular focus on cartel and information exchange cases (e.g. trucks, air cargo, synthetic rubber), merger proceed ings (e.g. RHI/Magnesita, HeidelbergCement/ Italcementi, Immonet/Immowelt) and abuse of dominance cases (e.g. Immowelt vs ImmoScout24, the first case ever decided based on the new German legal anti-tipping act § 20(3a) GWB).
Prior to joining E.CA Economics, Alia obtained a Master’s degree from the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she specialised in the field of compe tition economics and industrial organisation.Schlossplatz 1 Berlin, 10178 Tel: +49 30 21 schweiger@e-ca.com231-7086www.e-ca.com
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Her experience covers a broad range of sectors such as online platforms (e-commerce, search engines, advertising, price comparison tools), transport (air cargo, railway, rental cars), payment cards, pharmaceuticals, construction materials, electric vehicle batteries (automotive), recycling and waste, grocery retail and FMCG (beer, sugar).
Thomas Hildebrand E.CA Economics
“He is able to translate economic theories into plain words”
Vishal Narula Alvarez & Marsal
Mr. Narula has extensive experience providing expert testimony in commercial arbitrations and litigations in India and abroad. He has prepared legal strategy, defended and rebutted claims and counter claims, and developed expert reports on loss of future profits and business valuation. Mr. Narula developed and implemented proactive fraud detection and prevention programs using technology, intelligent data analytics and process reviews. He created innovative methodologies to conduct penetration testing of an organization’s systems and processes to assess its vulnerability to manipulation and fraud.
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She has carried out damage assessments in private litigation cases following cartel investiga tions in industries such as beer and sugar, as well as in the context of an abuse of dominance, including most recently the European Commission’s Google Shopping case. Furthermore, Alia has assisted clients in state aid control proceedings as well as in regulatory matters.
Vishal Narula is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations practice in Bengaluru. He leads anti-trust, privileged consulting for clients undergoing investigation or regulatory enquiries, and crisis management services in CombiningIndia.investigation skills with expertise in law, economics and operations to help clients in crisis recovery, Mr. Narula specializes in managing un-precedented situations and has led some of India’s highest-profile investigations into complex accounting frauds and financial misstatements, anti-trust and anti-competition matters and head line-making bribery and corruption cases.
Alia Schweiger
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”He produces high-calibre economic anal ysis, even when there are data constraints”
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Mr. Narula has worked with various clients, including technology, e-commerce, food and bever ages, retail, manufacturing, industrial, global capa bility centers and media and entertainment. He has also conducted training for the Indian Judiciary on a variety of technical subjects.
Peers and clients say: “Vishal has a prac tical approach and an effective communica tion ”Hisstyle”knowledge about the subject and his proactiveness really impressed me”
Keita is an expert in economic analysis with regard to regulation and litigation matters such as anti trust, economic damages, and transfer pricing cases. He has more than 15 years’ experience as a professional economist with involvement in many regulation and litigation cases. Keita also has experience in cross-border cases in which he served as economist for Japanese companies. As an economic consultant, he performed economic analyses for private companies to identify crucial evidence in support of clients’ claims. From April 2012 to March 2014, he led the economic anal ysis team of the merger division of the Japan Fair Trade Commission, where he reviewed the merger submissions and conducted economic analyses in major merger cases as chief investigator. He leads AlixPartners’ economic consulting team at the Tokyo office.
Among his most relevant experiences in compe tition, he is currently advising an energy client in a vertical abuse of dominance case; providing advice to a consumer goods client in antitrust compliance, as well as leading APOYO Consultoria’s team on several peruvian merger cases.
Vincent holds a Bachelor in Commerce degree with Honours in Economics and Finance from McGill University, and a Master’s degree in Finance and Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) vpoirier@apoyoconsultoria.comTel:Armendarizdesignation.424Piso5Lima,15074+512131100www.apoyoconsultoria.com
Over the last several years, Vincent has mantained an active practice in academia, teaching economic and finance courses at Universidad del Pacífico, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, as well as the university extension courses organized by key Peruvian authorities such as Indecopi and Ositran.
Keita Fukunaga AlixPartners
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Mr. Narula earned a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Mumbai. He is a Chartered accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Vincent Poirier-Garneau APOYO Consultoria
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Vincent acts as an expert witness before regu latory authorities and arbitral tribunals and has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal: Competition as a leading competition expert in Peru between 2018 and 2021.
Peers and clients say: “Vincent has the capacity to deal with very complex cases” ”Vincent is very strongly recommended”
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Narula was an Executive Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers India, leading forensic services for south India and handling crisis management for all of India.
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”He is very creative”
Vincent joined the firm in 2013, having previously worked for 5 years as senior consultant at Oxera Consulting in London. Vincent has over 16 years of experience in economic and financial matters. He is an expert in providing economic evidence in compe tition, regulation, and arbitration cases, effectively leveraging from his corporate finance expertise and combining it with his sound economic knowledge to provide a robust and holistic assessment of the cases in which he acts as an advisor.
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Peers and clients say: “Mr Fukunaga consistently delivers solid and practical outcomes for complicated matters”
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Kevin W. Christensen, Ph.D. is a Director in BRG’s Economics and Damages community. Dr. Christensen specializes in antitrust & competition policy, public policy, and damages analysis. Often these specialties are applied in the context of the pharmaceutical industry. He regularly works on class action litigation matters to address questions of class certification and estimation of class-wide damages. Dr. Christensen has submitted expert reports to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and regulatory agencies. He has provided deposition testimony in state court. Additionally, he has authored white papers and regulatory filings for state and federal agencies.
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Peers and clients say: “I hold Kevin in high regard - a great peer” ”His in-house experience is a great benefit to his practice”
Dr Shireen Meer is an economist and a director in the Washington DC office of the Berkeley Research Group. She specialises in the rigorous application of economic analysis to litigation and consulting matters. She has worked on a wide variety of matters, including antitrust, class actions, complex commercial disputes, intellectual property and government investigations.
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Dr. Christensen has been involved in antitrust & competition matters that included price fixing, monopoly, monopsony, market allocation, raising rivals costs, or tying and bundling allegations. He also has worked on several mergers and acqui sitions and non-public investigations by federal agencies. For economic regulation matters Dr. Christensen has estimated the economic and tax revenue impact of proposed infrastructure investments or regulatory changes. He has esti mated economic damages in a variety of antitrust and false advertising litigations and has provided testimony on economic damages resulting from bribery. His work spans oil & gas, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, banking, automo bile finance, wholesale distribution, transporta tion, consumer packaged goods (CPG), agriculture, building materials, tourism, and gaming industries.
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Dr Meer has worked on competition matters across a wide range of industries addressing issues related to class certification, competitive effects, unfair competition and unfair trade prac tices, economic impact, economic damages and long-term liability estimation. Additionally, she has conducted benchmarking analyses, assessed outsourcing viability of public services and has conducted comparative economic analyses of proposals for government clients. Her work has spanned industries such as healthcare, consumer products, metal refining products, banking, and pharmaceuticals.DrMeerhas taught undergraduate-level courses in micro- and macroeconomics and was managing editor of Managerial and Decision Economics , a peer-reviewed journal. She has published papers in academic journals and in professional publications. Her research on behav ioral economics has received mentions in trade press. Dr Meer has testified at jury trial, provided deposition testimony, and submitted expert reports in federal and state court. She has served on arbi tration panels for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Dr Meer is an active member of several professional associations. She received her PhD and MA in economics from Emory University.
Peers and clients say: “She is willing to think outside of the box”
Dr. Christensen holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Florida and a B.S. from James Madison University. From 2011 to 2022 Dr. Christensen served on the board of editors for The Antitrust Magazine Online (formerly The Antitrust Source) a publica tion from the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law. Dr. Christensen also serves on the Board of Directors for RxPartnership. RxPartnership is a critical part of the health care safety net that provides affordable brand and generic medications to low-income, uninsured Virginians.
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