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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Adds Leading Competition and Regulatory Lawyers to Brussels Office

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Stephen Mavroghenis and Miguel Rato will join the firm as partners based in its Brussels office, working together with both Trevor Soames, who joined in December 2016, and Dr. Nadine Herrmann.  Stephen and Miguel are recognized by all the prominent legal directories and publications as leading Brussels competition lawyers. Stephen was formerly the practice group leader of Shearman & Sterling’s worldwide antitrust practice and managing partner of the Brussels office.

Stephen’s practice is global, covering 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. He is expert in many business areas, including aviation, banking and financial institutions, chemicals, energy, high-tech and information technology, hospitality, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries.

Miguel advises clients on a wide array of 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.  He has been involved in some of the leading competition cases in the high-tech filed and at the intersection of IP and competition law.

Stephen and Miguel will bring with them a team of talented lawyers from Shearman & Sterling’s Brussels office.