Assimakis Komninos
Dr. Assimakis Komninos is a partner at White and Case as well as a visiting professor at Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) at the College of Europe. He is a prolific writer on legal matters and often gives speeches and seminars on EU law. Assimakis is a former Commissioner and Member of the Board of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC). His practice focuses on complex cases of abuse of dominance, restrictive agreements and merger control reviews and on the newly adopted Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA). He represents clients before the European Courts, the European Commission, national competition authorities, national courts and international arbitration tribunals. In his professional career, he has represented Google in the Android and Heureka cases, Amazon in the Italian carve-out, CCIA in Google Shopping, BEH in Bulgarian Energy Holding, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Syfait, Lelos and GSK Spain and being part of the Microsoft litigation team (2004-2009). He has also appeared before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in a number of preliminary reference cases, including the only two competition preliminary references from Greece. Assimakis has represented clients with excellent results in proceedings before the Albanian, Croatian, Cypriot, French, Greek, Kosovo, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Slovenian competition authorities and Belgian, Bulgarian, Cypriot, French, Greek, Latvian, and Spanish courts. He has particular experience in arbitration cases involving competition issues, and in private antitrust litigation cases in national courts.