Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Developments in Europe 2020

Robbert Snelders is a partner in the Brussels office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the College of Europe, and Leiden University, and clerked for Justice Kapteyn at the European Union’s Court of Justice. Mr. Snelders is distinguished as a leading Competition/Antitrust lawyer by Chambers Global — The World’s Leading Lawyers, and is included in Global Competition Review’s “40 Under 40” survey of the world’s leading young antitrust lawyers. He advises companies on a wide range of issues under European and national antitrust and merger control law and also represents clients before the European Commission and national antitrust authorities and the European Courts in Luxembourg.

Romano Subiotto QC is a partner in the Brussels and London offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. He is a graduate of the Universities of Málaga, King’s College, London, Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Harvard. Mr. Subiotto qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1988, became a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings) in 2006, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2009. Mr. Subiotto advises companies on a wide range of issues under European and national antitrust law, and represents clients in arbitrations and before the European Commission, national antitrust authorities, the European Courts in Luxembourg and the High Court in London. Mr. Subiotto is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport as well as a member of the Academic Council of Harvard Law School’s European Law Research Center.

Niklas Maydell is a counsel in the Brussels office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. He is a graduate of the University of Vienna and Columbia University, worked for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade, and was an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Economics prior to joining Cleary Gottlieb. Mr. Maydell advises on all aspects of antitrust/competition law, including on complex EU and international merger control proceedings, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance cases, and cooperation/vertical agreements. He also regularly counsels clients in EU law-related litigation and arbitration proceedings, as well as sector-specific EU regulatory matters.