24th Annual Competition Conference - 8 September

Anna Morfey

Anna is a Partner and qualified solicitor-advocate at Hausfeld in London, with a practice encompassing all aspects of contentious EU and competition law. She has extensive litigation experience in the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and, at European level, before the General Court and Court of Justice.

Ongoing cases in which Anna is acting include representing an OEM in a follow-on damages claim against the Bearings cartel, representing a group of claimants in a follow-on damages claim against the PU Foam cartel. She is lead partner representing Foundem in its intervention in Google’s appeal in the European General Court against the European Commission’s Google Shopping decision, which demonstrates how she has been developing Hausfeld’s expertise in European court litigation.

Prior to joining Hausfeld, Anna represented a number of defendants in follow-on damages claims, including the immunity applicant in claims brought against members of the Carbon and Graphite cartel, and acting for a defendant in National Grid’s claim against the Gas Insulated Switchgear cartel. Anna has also advised clients in the context of numerous other cartel investigations and follow-on claims, including Elevators and Escalators, Marine Hoses, Industrial Bags, Libor, Credit Default Swaps and FX.

Elizabeth Richmond

Elizabeth Richmond has a particular interest in competition investigations and litigation, and in general dispute-related matters.

Her experience includes obtaining merger clearances from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and advising on issues such as pricing, structuring of distribution and reseller agreements, agency arrangements, joint venture arrangements and consumer protection matters.

Carolyn Oddie

Carolyn has over 20 years of experience advising on competition and regulatory issues in Australia and South East Asia. She is recognised by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2018 as a leading competition law practitioner.

Carolyn specialises in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; structuring of alliances and advising on business conduct including authorisations and notifications; cartel immunity applications, investigations by the ACCC, Vietnam Competition Authority and other regulators.

He is also specialised in competition and consumer litigation by the ACCC and third parties; Australian Consumer Law, advertising and marketing issues and advertising clearance; competition audits and compliance; and regulatory issues including access, pharmaceutical and medical devices regulation.

Munesh Mahtani

Munesh Mahtani is the Head of Legal at ViaVan (London). Prior to that, he was Senior Competition Counsel at Google from 2010 to 2018 and lawyer at Clifford Chance from 2002 to 2007.

Andrea Hamilton

Andrea Hamilton draws on deep experience from both sides of the Atlantic, advising clients on some of their most strategic competition matters. She has been recognized for her subject matter experience and her ability to work closely and efficiently with clients to develop winning strategies. Andrea focuses her practice on EU and international merger control investigations as well as non-merger conduct investigations and antitrust litigation. She regularly represents clients before the European Commission and national competition authorities and coordinates global investigations.

Kristina Nordlander

KRISTINA NORDLANDER, co-leader of Sidley’s Antitrust/Competition group, has a thriving EU competition, litigation and regulatory practice representing major companies in a variety of sectors. Kristina is a skilled advocate and has led high-stakes antitrust investigations and regulatory matters before the European Commission as well as precedent-setting litigation before the EU Courts.

Kristina has a record of success in improving market access for her clients’ products and services, with a particular focus on high-tech sectors such as online services and ePayments, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and agribusiness. In addition to antitrust investigations and complaints, Kristina has vast experience using EU law tools such as free movement rules, litigation and infringement procedures to secure market access. She has challenged many product bans or restrictions imposed under various EU regulatory frameworks.

Kristina advises clients on all aspects of EU competition law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance and other anti-competitive behavior. She has extensive experience in EU state aid law, in particular regarding taxation. Kristina also focuses on EU competition law enforcement issues impacting the digital single market, online selling, mobile and electronic payments and other technology. She advises a variety of online marketplaces and platforms on EU competition issues, complaints and investigations. In addition, she was heavily involved in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG Competition) e-commerce sector inquiry and is involved in several investigations and cases against Google.

Attila Komives

Attila is a Senior Associate at Allen & Overy, qualified and based in Hungary. Attila is an experienced EU and Hungarian competition lawyer, acting for clients in antitrust damages claims as well as in relation to investigations by competition authorities and ensuing administrative litigation seeking annulments of antitrust decisions. His most recent cases include representing an OEM in relation to defending antitrust damages claims in Hungarian courts, and acting for ING in the high-profile preliminary reference procedure in the European Court of Justice in C-228/18 Budapest Bank v GVH.

Eric Meiring

Eric Meiring is an antitrust partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Winston & Strawn, LLP. Prior to joining Winston, Mr. Meiring spent ten years in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, where he served as an Acting Chief and Assistant Chief in Washington, D.C. His practice is focused on representing corporations and individuals in complex government investigations and high-stakes criminal and civil litigation. Mr. Meiring also conducts sensitive internal investigations, provides practical antitrust counseling, and creates and implements effective compliance programs.

Karen Ruback

Karen advises clients on a full range of antitrust and competition issues, in both contentious and non-contentious matters. She had the opportunity to handle landmark cases, mainly related to cartel investigations, settlement negotiations, and merger control cases. She also has notably experience on training and providing assistance to the development of compliance programs related to antitrust laws.

Karen holds a Ph.D. in Competition Law from the University of São Paulo – USP and a Master degree in Competition Law from Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG. She participated in the Brazilian antitrust authority CADE´s Internship Program, and was a visiting researcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany.

Yoshi Ikeda

Yoshi served as an investigator of the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) where he participated in around 20dawn raids; prepared the implementation of the leniency system; and investigated a case involving standard essential patents. With his success in the most cutting-edge cases of cartel, merger review, and other types of antitrust/competition cases, Yoshi has been recognized as one of the most prominent antitrust/competition law practitioners in Japan by lawyer ranking institutes such as Who’s Who Legal.