Announcement: August 2017: Leading Competition and Regulatory Lawyers Join Brussels Office

Stephen Mavroghenis and Miguel Rato have joined the firm as partners in the Brussels office. Both join from Shearman & Sterling where Stephen was the leader of Shearman & Sterling’s worldwide antitrust practice and managing partner of the Brussels office. Stephen’s practice covers the full range of competition and antitrust matters, including complex mergers and joint ventures, monopolization (industry dominance), government investigations and EU litigation, vertical arrangements, state aid and cartel investigations in Europe the USA and Asia, as well as contentious matters in the EU. Miguel also advises clients on contentious and non-contentious EU competition law issues, with a particular focus on complex unilateral conduct matters, transactions, and IP licensing in high-tech industries.