32nd Annual IBA Communications and Competition Law Conference

Innocenzo Genna is an expert on telecoms and Internet European regulation. He is also known via his professional blog RadioBruxellesLibera. He is currently legal advisor to the Dipartimento per la Trasformazione Digitale, the section of the Italian Prime Minister Office dealing with digital policy. He has been in charge of various executive positions with European trade organizations in Brussels, such as MVNO Europe, Euroispa and ECTA, as well as Board Member of the European Internet Forum, the Brussels foundation gathering all stakeholders and members of the European Parliament active in the digital sector. Previously, he was the chairman of ECTA , while he also served as General Counsel for Tiscali S.p.A.. At beginning of his career, he was a partner attorney at Ughi e Nunziante, a leading Italian law firm based in Rome and Milan.

Janet Hui is a partner at JunHe LLP and is based in Beijing. She primarily specializes in antitrust, cross-border M&A, FDI and general corporate matters. Janet has been recognized as a Band 1 Ranked Lawyer by Chambers and Partners (Asia-Pacific 2012-2022), Leading Lawyer and Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 (2012-2022), Highly Regarded Lawyer by IFLR1000 (2017-2022), and Thought Leader- Global Elite by Who’s Who Legal (2017-2022) in antitrust matters. Janet will be the Co-Chair of IBA Antitrust Committee from 2023 to 2024. Janet has more than 30 years’ experience in providing legal services to clients in different industries, particularly in areas such as telecommunications and media, hotels and real estate, aviation, automobile, semiconductor, home appliance, pharmaceutical, medical instrument, food and beverage, etc.

Kyriakos is the Herbert Smith Freehills Brussels office Managing Partner and EMEA Regional Head of Practice for Competition, Regulation and Trade. He has over 20 years' experience advising clients across all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including merger control, cartels, antitrust investigations and advice, distribution agreements, dominance, and competition litigation before the EU courts. He also advises client on foreign direct investment issues. Kyriakos has advised clients across a broad range of industries with particular expertise in TMT, pharmaceuticals, energy and mining, financial services, transport and consumer goods. He works closely with the Herbert Smith Freehills network to provide advice on multi-jurisdictional transactions and investigations. Kyriakos brings particular expertise through his background as an EU official, having held positions as a European Commission official at DG Competition’s merger task force and then as a legal assistant in the cabinet of the President of the General Court of the EU. He is currently a vice chair of the IBA's Antitrust Committee.

With more than 15 years of experience, Laurent De Muyter's practice covers the regulation of electronic communications, data protection, and antitrust. Laurent ensures clients' regulatory compliance and litigates before the EU Commission and national regulators/courts in infringement procedures and related damage claims. In electronic communications, Laurent has advised operators and regulators, such as T-Mobile and KPN, on liberalizing markets, allocating spectrum, rolling-out and sharing networks, interconnection and interoperability, roaming, access regulations, universal services obligations and financing, numbering, and legal tapping. Laurent's data protection experience includes advising companies like Cardinal Health and ICANN on issues such as handling data breaches, drafting privacy policies, establishing direct marketing and whistleblower schemes, transferring data outside the EU (including approvals of binding corporate rules [BCRs] and standard contractual clauses [SCCs]), data portability, data retention, and cybersecurity. Laurent's antitrust experience covers anticompetitive practices and merger filings at the EU and national levels across various industries, including automotive, chemicals, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, oil, telecoms, and waste management. He regularly advises clients on compliance matters in relation to cooperation agreements, distribution, and technology licensing. Laurent has been a member ("assessor") of the decisional body of the Belgian Competition Authority since 2013, as well as a research fellow at the University of Liège since 2008. He teaches the regulation of data at the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium program on artificial intelligence. He has been an officer of the IBA Communications Law Committee since 2016 and is also a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Laurent's in-house experience includes a secondment at the GSM Association in London in 2008.

Samantha Mobley is a partner in the EU, Competition & Trade Practice of Baker & McKenzie's London office and she is a member of the London office Management Committee. She headed the Baker & McKenzie's Global Antitrust and Competition Group, a team of over 300 competition and antitrust specialists worldwide for six years. Samantha has extensive experience in all areas of EC and UK competition law and is an eminent name in the cartel field and an experienced merger control specialist. Samantha regularly advises the boards of UK plc's in numerous industry sectors on antitrust compliance matters. She is also a Vice Chair of the Antitrust Committee of the International Bar Association and a Non-Governmental Adviser to the UK Competition and Markets Authority at the International Competition Network.

Partner and coordinator of the Competition and EU Law team at Cuatrecasas, Madrid.

Kristina Nordlander, a partner at Allen & Overy LLP Antitrust/Competition group, has a thriving EU competition and litigation practice representing major companies in various sectors. Kristina is a skilled advocate and has led high-stakes antitrust investigations before the European Commission and precedent-setting litigation before the EU Courts. Kristina advises clients on all aspects of EU competition law, including merger control, cartels and abuse of dominance. Kristina also focuses on EU competition law enforcement issues impacting the digital single market, online selling, mobile and electronic payments and other technology. She founded the Women’s Competition Network and was named a 2017 “Top 10 Innovator" in Europe by the Financial Times.

Angela is a partner of Australian law firm Holding Redlich. Angela has over 20 years’ experience as a partner in private practice and in senior Australian Commonwealth Government roles. She has broad commercial law expertise in transactional and regulatory matters, with a focus on telecommunications, media and technology, digital issues and privacy. Angela is listed in Who’s Who Legal as a Thought Leader - Data - Telecoms & Media in 2021 and as a National Leader Australia & New Zealand - Data 2021. Angela is an officer of the IBA Communications Law Committee, member of the auDA Licence Review Panel (auDA is Australia’s domain name administrator) and a member of the Australian management committee for the International Institute of Communications, Australian Chapter.

Vittorio Noseda has extensive experience in advising leading national and multinational groups with particular reference to extraordinary business transactions as well as Telecom and ICT matters. In particular, he has been advising for more than 25 years large multinationals in all their major M&A projects, investments, outsourcings as well as Telecom and ICT issues in Italy. Mr Noseda has been consistently highly ranked in all main directories with respect to ICT and M&A matters. Vittorio Noseda has been Managing Partner of Nctm for 6 years and Head of Executive Committee and Head of Professional Practices for 7 years. He is member of the Board of Directors at Nctm. He is and has been heading the Technology, Digital Media and Telecom team of Nctm (one of the largest ICT/Telecom department in any law firm operating in Italy) over the last 15 years. He is an Officer of the IBA Communication Committee since December 2014. He is presently co-chairman of the IBA Communication Committee. Vittorio Noseda is, and/or has been over the last 15 years, consistently ranked and/or recommended in all major EU and/or Italian directories including Legal 500, IFLR, Chambers, Who’s Who, LegalCommunity, Best Lawyers, etc. “Vittorio Noseda: high legal skills, strong technically, business talent. Extremely available and quick in reverting. He and his team are very well-organised, very reliable, dedicated to clients”.

Zoltán Marosi's main area of expertise lies in Hungarian and EU antitrust law, consumer protection law and administrative litigation. He has published numerous articles and book excerpts in the fields of competition law, commercial law and European Union law. He is currently a lecturer of EU law at ELTE School of Law and serves as a member of the Hungarian committee of bar examiners. Furthermore, he is an officer of the International Bar Association, serving on its Antitrust Committee. Zoltán is also a non-governmental advisor in the International Competition Network to the European Commission's DG COMP.

Carel Maske is Senior Attorney with Microsoft in Brussels covering antitrust in the EMEA region including antitrust counseling and compliance as well as managing antitrust-related investigations and litigation. Before joining Microsoft, he had practiced competition law with two international law firms in Berlin and Brussels. Carel Maske is a German qualified lawyer and holds a phD in European Competition Law. He regularly speaks at conferences on antitrust compliance and works on competition policy topics.

Nana Adjoa is a lawyer, technology enthusiast and social development activist. She is the Secretary to the National Communications Authority, the national regulator of the electronic communications industry in Ghana. She works closely with the Chairperson, the Board and Management to ensure the efficient running of the corporate governance structures of the Authority. Her role places her in a key position to facilitate the implementation of policy directives of the Board.Some of the notable policies that the Authority has implemented are the significant market power measures introduced in the mobile network operators (MNOs) market, the national SIM registration exercise, sanctioning of unsolicited electronic communications by MNOs and Value Added Service Providers, the national roaming exercise, the ECOWAS roaming initiative, and regulation of telecommunications infrastructure companies and service providers. Nana Adjoa assisted the Board to put in place internal licensing protocols to streamline the licensing and authorisation procedures of the Authority. She is also spearheading the establishment of the first ever Dispute Resolution Committee, which is the statutory committee responsible for settlement of disputes between stakeholders in the telecommunications industry. Nana Adjoa is a board member of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC), the authorised body, legally permitted to assay, buy and sell precious minerals and to license agents in Ghana. She is a member of the Institute of ICT Professionals of Ghana and Women in Mining Ghana. She is also the founding director of the Social Bridge, an NGO that engages in social intervention projects. Nana Adjoa was called to the Ghana Bar in 2015. She has Certificates in Sustainable Dispute Resolution, Sustainable Development and International Anti- Corruption from the University of Milan, Italy. She also has a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Certificate (MITx) in Policy for Science, Innovation and Technology. Her legal expertise spans litigation and corporate services to government agencies, Ghanaian and international clients. She has worked with reputable law firms in Ghana namely Kulendi@Law, and JLD & MB Legal Consultancy. She was one of the two young female lawyers selected in 2017 to participate in the ASLA (Association of Legal Studies Associates) Lioness of Africa Project where she worked with Freshfields Bruckhaus and Derringer and NCTM Studio Legale in Italy. In 2018, Nana Adjoa was appointed Executive Director of the National Folklore Board, the state institution responsible for the legal protection of Ghana’s intangible cultural heritage (ICH). During her tenure, the agency gained international recognition, and introduced various flagship projects such as the facilitation of the passage of the folklore user fees into law as a means of increasing government revenues. She also represented Ghana at World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on matters of ICH.

Vittorio Noseda has extensive experience in advising leading national and multinational groups with particular reference to extraordinary business transactions as well as Telecom and ICT matters. In particular, he has been advising for more than 25 years large multinationals in all their major M&A projects, investments, outsourcings as well as Telecom and ICT issues in Italy. Mr Noseda has been consistently highly ranked in all main directories with respect to ICT and M&A matters. Vittorio Noseda has been Managing Partner of Nctm for 6 years and Head of Executive Committee and Head of Professional Practices for 7 years. He is member of the Board of Directors at Nctm. He is and has been heading the Technology, Digital Media and Telecom team of Nctm (one of the largest ICT/Telecom department in any law firm operating in Italy) over the last 15 years. He is an Officer of the IBA Communication Committee since December 2014. He is presently co-chairman of the IBA Communication Committee. Vittorio Noseda is, and/or has been over the last 15 years, consistently ranked and/or recommended in all major EU and/or Italian directories including Legal 500, IFLR, Chambers, Who’s Who, LegalCommunity, Best Lawyers, etc. “Vittorio Noseda: high legal skills, strong technically, business talent. Extremely available and quick in reverting. He and his team are very well-organised, very reliable, dedicated to clients”.

Matt leads AlixPartners’ EMEA economics practice and is an experienced economist who represents clients in complex competition, regulatory, intellectual property 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 regularly submits expert reports to regulatory authorities and competition authorities. Matt leads AlixPartners' economics work in the telecoms, media, and technology industries and has significant experience in the sports, financial services, electricity, healthcare and gaming sectors.

Annamaria is a partner in the Linklaters Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group practice. Based in Brussels, Annamaria is a fully-rounded competition lawyer with considerable experience representing clients in international merger control, FDI, cartel investigations and litigation matters in a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on the telecommunications, digital, energy, healthcare and FMG sectors. Annamaria has been a key advisor on many high-profile transactions in the telecommunications sector, and that included advising clients on sophisticated set of remedies in order to obtain merger clearances. Ranked among the “40 under 40” top antitrust practitioners worldwide (GCR) and as one of the top female M&A lawyers in EMEA, Annamaria closely follows the development in the digital space, and regularly speaks and publishes articles on the role that competition law plays when it comes to support innovation.

Atsushi Yamada is a partner at the Tokyo office of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune focusing on competition/antitrust law. His practice covers all aspects of competition/antitrust law including assisting clients in investigations by competition authorities (cartels/dominance/unfair trade practices), representation in courts/tribunals challenging decisions made by competition authorities, follow-on civil litigation, and merger filings. He also provides advice relating to structuring new businesses and establishing compliance programs. Prior to joining Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, he has worked at the Tokyo office of a US law firm and a local Japanese firm after serving as a judge at the Tokyo District Court as well as other courts. With such background, he has extensive experience in litigation and general corporate matters. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer for antitrust law at Hitotsubashi University (School of Law), and has spoken at various international conferences/seminars including the ABA, IBA and ICN. Atsushi Yamada is a graduate of the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1994) and Cornell Law School (LLM, 2004). He is admitted to the Bar in both Japan and New York.

Samantha Mobley is a partner in the EU, Competition & Trade Practice of Baker & McKenzie's London office and she is a member of the London office Management Committee. She headed the Baker & McKenzie's Global Antitrust and Competition Group, a team of over 300 competition and antitrust specialists worldwide for six years. Samantha has extensive experience in all areas of EC and UK competition law and is an eminent name in the cartel field and an experienced merger control specialist. Samantha regularly advises the boards of UK plc's in numerous industry sectors on antitrust compliance matters. She is also a Vice Chair of the Antitrust Committee of the International Bar Association and a Non-Governmental Adviser to the UK Competition and Markets Authority at the International Competition Network.

Regulatory Affairs Lead South Europe and Academic Outreach Europe at Google, where Andrea manages the regulatory work of the Government Affairs and Public Policy Google/YouTube teams of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Malta & Cyprus. Professor of Comparative Law, and New Technologies Law & Management and Director of Research Centres at European University of Rome; Visiting Professor and Academic Fellow at National University of Singapore and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria of Madrid. Publications: 10 books and 75+ articles in academic journals.

Senior Legal Director at the Competition & Markets Authority

Mohammed Suleh-Yusuf is a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria that was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 2003. He holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Law from University of Maiduguri in Nigeria that was achieved in 2001 and a Masters Degree in International Commercial Law from the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom in 2009. Mohammed also holds a Ph.D in Law from Nasarawa State University in Nigeria. He has previously worked with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria as a pioneer staff in 2004. He has also worked at Standard Chartered Bank as its Financial Crimes Risk Manager for West Africa and later as its Country CDD Advisor for Nigeria between 2009 and 2013. He joined Etisalat Nigeria in 2013 as its Head of Public Policy, Government Affairs and Community Relations, where he handled policy formulation issues in the telecommunications sector as well as the management of the company’s relations with regulators and the legislature in Nigeria. Mohammed joined the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the regulator of the communications Sector in Nigeria, in 2018. He serves in the Legal and Regulatory Services Department, where he handles matters related to regulations, guidelines and laws. He has published several research papers on corporate criminal liability, money laundering and terrorism financing as well as his postdoctoral research areas of cyber security, data protection and internet security.

I have worked in technology, communications and competition law in the UK and France for 30 years and I love the work in this area. I am assisted in the cross-border aspects of this exceptionally international field because I enjoy speaking several European languages and am happiest in a cross-cultural environment where my insights can add value to what each person is doing; I most like meeting and establishing relationships with people from different cultures and environments. I am fortunate to lead a great team and a growing practice at CMS and that makes me very fulfilled. We are doing more and more work on digital infra funding which is a fascinating and growing subjects breaking regulatory moulds as owner/operator ceases to be the predominant business model for telecos. I am passionate about digital including digital identity and the movement of legal principles and rights from the physical to the digital world. My goals are to succeed in the things that I want to achieve, yet to spend the maximum time with my wonderful family, to keep doing and enjoying what I am doing, to catch great fish in exciting and beautiful places, to grow the best wines in Chablis and Irancy, to keep fit, and to continue to have as many good friends as I have time for. I have been recognised in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame as one of the elite leading lawyers for Telecommunications, an accolade celebrating standout lawyers who have been ranked in The Legal 500 for 10 years or more. I have also been included in The Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Global Elite 2020, an esteemed guide to the world’s foremost legal experts. Selected through nominations from peers and corporate counsel, the guide shines a light on members of the legal profession who truly stand out in their field as being leaders and trailblazers, and who are held in the highest esteem by their clients and fellow practitioners. I was also identified by Who’s Who as one of the UK’s top 50 Data lawyers. As a firm, CMS lawyers represent over 10% of those included in the guide, head and shoulders above any other firm recognised in the guide. Specialties: Comms and regulated/network industries specialist, particularly in competition and regulatory issues and corporate/finance/commercial transactions

Damien Geradin is the founding partner of Geradin Partners, a boutique competition law with offices in Brussels and London. Damien's practice covers all aspects of EU competition law, with a particular focus on the tech sector. Besides being a practitioner, he is also a leading academic who taught in leading law schools in Europe, the United States and Asia. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics.