Competition lawyers

Spiros Komitopoulos

Managing Partner- Practice areas: Civil Law, Company Law, Tax Law, Real Estate, Civil and Commercial Dispute Resolution, Medical Malpractice Law

Saplegal - A.S. Papadimitriou & Partners Law Firm

Stacy Turner

Partner

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Stefaan Raes

Partner

Liedekerke

Stefan Dittmer

Dr. Stefan Dittmer advises companies on all aspects of intellectual property law, including licensing, with a focus on technology, media and digitization. He represents clients in disputes relating to unfair competition, copyright, trademarks, patents and designs, and in general commercial disputes before courts of law and arbitral tribunals.

Dentons

Stefan J. Schröter

Stefan Schröter is part of the firm’s trademark & design group. He represents clients in regulatory proceedings and civil litigation. He has wide-ranging experience with unfair competition cases as well as in registration and enforcement of trademarks, copyright, designs and geographical indications. Stefan Schröter is admitted to the bar in Germany and Switzerland and has a focus on anti-counterfeit and e-commerce issues with particular experience in the sectors of retail, fashion, electronics, furniture, healthcare and life science. He is fluent in German, English and Spanish.

MLL Legal

Stefan Tzakov

Managing Partner

Kambourov & Partners

Stefanie Fogel

Partner; Vice Chair of DLA Piper's Markets and Sectors

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Stefanus Haryanto

Managing Partner

Adnan Kelana Haryanto & Hermanto (AKHH)

Stephan Lesage-Mathieu

Partner

LPA Law

Stephan Zimprich

Stephan Zimprich is a Partner in Fieldfisher's Hamburg office and Co-Head of the Technology & Data Practice Group in Germany, advising on Data Protection, Competition Law, Media Law and IT Law. One focus is on advising technology providers in the field of online advertising (Adtech) and online platforms. He also specialises in representing his clients in court in cases with a technology background. His clients are European and global online platform providers, leading ad tech providers and digital business model providers. Examples of his work include: Representing the world's leading trade association for the online advertising industry in a case concerning the admissibility of a standard data exchange protocol Legal representation of a leading short video service in a legal dispute in connection with the client's advertising products Legal representation of a leading consent management platform in an administrative law dispute concerning data transfer to the US Legal representation of the leading social network for professionals in numerous court disputes, including on the blocking of user accounts, user preferences and data usage Legal representation of a leading online rating platform regarding the algorithm-based classification of ratings Representing the world's leading provider of smart TVs in a legal dispute concerning the use of user data Representation of a provider of special software for insurance companies in an IT-law compensation case Advising leading ad tech providers on the GDPR, including preparing for an IPO Advising leading German publishers on the implementation of regulatory requirements for the implementation of advertising technology Representing one of the leading European flight search engines in several competition law disputes concerning the core functionality of the website Advising a leading global supplier of medical and camera products on a pan-European IT outsourcing project Representation of a major German public publishing house in court proceedings concerning anti-competitive cooperation between a public broadcaster and a private competitor Furthermore, he advises clients on the drafting and negotiation of IT contracts, such as SaaS contracts, software licence agreements or outsourcing projects.

Fieldfisher

Stephanie Reinart

Senior Counsel Stephanie Reinart focuses on EU and German competition law as well as EU and German regulatory law. German Competition Stephanie’s experience includes securing merger clearance from the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) in numerous cases and successfully defending clients in investigations of alleged cartel conduct and other anti-competitive practices conducted by the German Federal Cartel Office. EU Competition Stephanie has handled numerous international cartel cases in which she defended companies in proceedings before the European Commission and the EU Courts. Stephanie’s EU competition law experience extends to advising clients on how to structure agreements, including strategic alliances, cooperation, licensing and supply agreements, in order to achieve compliance with competition law rules. She also frequently counsels companies holding a dominant market position on how to avoid abusive conduct. Stephanie regularly conducts training sessions on competition law matters for company employees throughout Europe. She also prepares antitrust compliance programmes and assists companies with their implementation. State aid Stephanie assists clients involved in State aid investigations launched by the European Commission.

Van Bael & Bellis

Stephen Kiptinness

Managing Partner

KO Associates

Stephen Smith

Stephen has 20 years’ experience advising across a broad range of EU and UK competition law matters. Stephen’s practice includes distribution agreements, merger control, cartels and anti-trust investigations, abuse of dominance and competition litigation. Stephen has represented clients before the European Commission and the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK and on appeals both to the European courts in Luxembourg and to the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal. He advised the Société Co-opérative de Production (SCOP), the company operating Eurotunnel’s MyFerryLink business, in its landmark appeal. The case was the first ever jurisdictional challenge under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act to reach the Supreme Court in the UK. Stephen also advised the owners of the Evening Standard and the Independent in the Competition Appeals Tribunal on their successful jurisdictional challenge against the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Support’s attempt to intervene in the sale of a minority stake to overseas investors. More recently, Stephen has been advising Dutch listed home furnishings group Hunter Douglas in respect of the CMA’s Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews of the completed acquisition of 247 Home Furnishings. Stephen is recognised by his clients as adept at providing pragmatic, commercial advice and his experience spans diverse sectors including life sciences, financial services, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and technology. He has also has experience of working inside a regulator, having worked at OFCOM, the UK’s communication regulator, earlier in his career. Stephen is fluent in French and is a former Chair of the Law Society’s Competition Section, where he remains a member of the Committee.

Bristows LLP

Stephen Weissman

Steve Weissman, the Global Co-Chair of the firm's Antitrust and Competition practice, has almost two decades of practice representing clients in high-stakes transactional matters, criminal cartel investigations and civil litigation before the DOJ and FTC. Steve has litigated a substantial number of cases on behalf of both defendants and plaintiffs, including claims under the Sherman, Clayton and Robinson-Patman Acts, as well as breach of contract and business tort claims. He regularly counsel clients on issues pertaining to joint ventures and distribution agreements, and other antitrust compliance matters.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Stephen Wu

Stephen Wu has nearly twenty-five years’ experience in defending antitrust litigation in federal courts around the country, defending mergers and acquisitions before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and State Attorneys General and counseling clients on antitrust compliance issues. Stephen has successfully defended clients in class actions and other litigation brought by purchasers, competitors, and employees alleging unlawful conspiracy, price-fixing, wage-fixing, exclusive dealing, group boycott, market allocation, monopolization and tying claims. In addition, Stephen has successfully defended numerous mergers and acquisitions from federal and state antitrust reviews. Stephen also regularly counsels clients on pricing and distribution and joint venture matters. He represents clients in a wide variety of industries, ranging from consumer goods to healthcare to packaging. Stephen is co-head of the Firm’s Health Antitrust Practice Group. Stephen has been recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America, BTI Consulting, Chambers USA, Global Competition Review, Lawyers of Color, The Legal 500 USA, LMG Life Sciences, The National Law Journal and Super Lawyers. Prior to joining the Firm, Stephen was an attorney for the FTC, where he received its Award for Meritorious Service. At the Firm, Stephen received McDermott’s Pro Bono and Community Service Award in 2010 for his pro bono efforts.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Steve Ross

Associate Steve Ross focuses on EU competition law, as well as EU and French regulatory law, including environmental and consumer protection law. His experience extends to international trade law, with a particular emphasis on anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations.

Van Bael & Bellis

Steven Bizar

Dechert

Steven C. Sunshine

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Susan Meyer

Susan is a Director in our Competition Law practice and Head of the Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals sector. Susan has specialised experience in advising clients on all issues of competition law including: prohibited practice litigation, general compliance (for example, opinions, training workshops, dawn raid advice, and general advice on business strategy in light of competition legislation), corporate leniency, exemption applications and merger notifications.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Svein Terje Tveit

Tveit has extensive experience of all aspects of EU/EEA, Norwegian and international competition law, regularly leading complex mergers and investigations, including multi-jurisdictional filings. He regularly also assists with state aid and public procurement mandates. He has particular expertise in the retail/food, transport, TMT and energy sectors.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Sylvia Anthamatten

Counsel

Walder Wyss Ltd.

Sylvie Sobolová

Partner

Kocián Solc Balastík

Szabolcs Szendrő

CMS

Sílvia Cristóvão

Managing Associate

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