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Contributors
Cleo Alliston is an Assistant Director at the UK competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, where she has conducted numerous merger enquiries, as well as leading investigations into anti- -competitive agreements and abusive conduct. Cleo had a key role in the CMA’s work with the European Commission on the Three/O2 merger and was the CMA’s representative at the EU Mergers Working Group for a number of years. Prior to joining the CMA, Cleo worked as a solicitor in the Competition and Regulatory Group of London law firm Slaughter and May.
Andreas Bardong works for the German CITES Management Authority within the German Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN). He heads division I 1.3 (import and export permits). Before taking up his position at the BfN in February 2019, he worked at German customs, in particular, he led the Ger- man Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in its 13-months start-up phase (from June 2017). From 2001 to 2017, he worked for the German competition authority (BKartA), in different functions, including more than eight years as head of unit merger control within the general policy department. He had started his career as a lawyer in Brussels in 1997, first at the US law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Hale), subsequently at the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. He holds a Master of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor and a Doctorate in law from the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken.
Ricardo Bayão Horta holds a law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa Law School (2000).
LLM – Master of Laws in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary College, University of London (2003). A lawyer (with suspended registry at the Portuguese Law Bar Association). An internship at the Office of the General Counsel of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2003).
Senior legal adviser at the Portuguese Competition Authority’s Merger Department (2003-April 2010, and as from July 2014) and at the Bureau of Studies and Market Monitoring (May 2010-June 2014). A member of the Portuguese Association of European Law and an individual observer of the European Law Institute. A member of the Alumni Network (Universidade Católica Portuguesa Law School). A member of the European Law Institute Competition Law Special Interest Group. President of the Exe- cutive Editorial Board of the Competition and Regulation Journal. On behalf of AdC, he is co-chairing the Merger Working Group of ECN (European Competition Network) for the period of 2018-2020.
Mateusz Błachucki is an Associate Professor in the Department of Administrative Law of Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute. He holds a Habilitation in Law (2019), PhD in law (2011), M.A. (Hons) in Law (2002) and M.A. in Eco- nomics (2003). He is an assistant editor of Polish Case Law Review. The author of three monographs:
1) Transgovernmental networks and their impact on domestic legal order (case study of the competition authorities’ networks). Warsaw: ILS PAS, 2019 (in Polish); 2) System of Polish Merger Procedure, Warsaw:
UOKiK, 2012 (in Polish); and 3) Polish Competition Law. Commentary, Case Law and Texts, Warsaw:
UOKiK, 2013 and various articles (approximately 70) in the field of competition law, transnational administrative law and administrative procedures published in Polish and international legal journals.
Mateusz Błachucki also serves as an advisor to the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (Polish competition authority). His main duties include conducting complex merger and sanctioning investigations and representing the Polish authority before the courts in competition cases.
Member of the MWG (UE) from the inception of the Group and vice-chair of the Group during period of 2012-2014. He is responsible for international cooperation in merger control and serves as an expert in working groups devoted to competition protection and cooperation in various international fora, i.e.
ICN, ECN, ECA and OECD Competition Committee.
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Stephen Calkins is Professor at Wayne State University Law School, Detroit MI. He is a former Member of the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and its predecessor agency, a former General Counsel of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a former Associate Provost at Wayne State University, a former special counsel at a global law firm, and a former Adjunct Professor and Sutherland Fellow at University College Dublin Sutherland College of Law.
Marta García works as an advisor at the Competition Directorate. She has been working for the Spanish Competition Authority for ten years, holding various positions. Previously, she worked for the Secretary of State for Energy in the Ministry of Industry.
Wolfgang Heckenberger is a German qualified lawyer and Senior Competition Advisor at Siemens AG in Munich. Prior to joining Siemens in 1999, he served for more than three years at the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) in Berlin, and lectured as an assistant professor at the Univer- sity of Würzburg. In his position as Senior Competition Advisor, Wolfgang Heckenberger advises the Siemens Group at all seniority levels on a worldwide basis on all aspects of Competition Law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, collaborative and other horizontal and vertical arrangements, cartel investigations, antitrust-related corporate governance, and state aid/anti-dumping matters. His experience covers the complete range of the Siemens product and services portfolio. Dr Heckenberger graduated from the University of Würzburg. He is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. (German Antitrust Lawyers’ Association). He currently serves as a board member of the Competition Committee of the BDI (Federation of German Industries) and as the chairman of the board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law. In addition, he is a lecturer at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg and is admitted to the Munich Bar. He is also a frequent speaker at international conferences.
Erika Lovásová is the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, Director of the Concentration Division
Daniela Lukáčová is the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, Director of the Second Instance Proceedings Division
Adriana Meijide is a case handler at the Industry and Energy Unit of the Spanish Competition Autho- rity. Previously she worked as a competition lawyer at an international law firm. She holds an LLM in European Union Law.
Marta Michałek-Gervais is a graduate from the University of Warsaw (Master’s) and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (Ph.D.), legal adviser at Clifford Chance (Warsaw), member of ASCOLA, CARS and SPK. She specialises in competition law, in particular the issue of protecting the rights of companies.
(ORCID 0000-0001-6441-0023)
Eduard Paulus is a judge of the Austrian Federal Administrative Court, Chamber of Public Commercial Law, competent for sectoral competition appeals. Former case handler of the Austrian Federal Compe- tition Authority (Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde) responsible for private enforcement, also worked for DG Competition (including as case team member in the escalator/elevator cartel case); former Vice Chair of the Merger Working Group in the European Competition Network.
9 Fabian Pape is Heads the German and European Merger Control Unit within the General Policies Division of the Bundeskartellamt. He is a lawyer by background and holds a Doctorate in Law from the University of Cologne. He has previously served in various units of the Bundeskartellamt. He has extensive experience enforcing competition law, including cases of merger control, cartels and abuse of dominance. He has also been seconded to DG COMP.
Michele Pacillo has been an official for international antirust affairs at the Italian Competition Authority (the AGCM) since 2014. He is responsible for the AGCM’s participation in multilateral organisations (e.g. the ECN, the OCED and the ICN), as well as bilateral cooperation with other competition agen- cies. He also has experience in capacity building activities and knowledge of the challenges for younger competition authorities. Before joining the AGCM, he worked at the Irish Competition Authority in the merger division and the policy division. He also worked on consultancy companies active in the media and energy sectors, dealing with clients and managing projects. He graduated in Economics from Bocconi University, Italy, and holds a MSc in Economics from the University of York, Great Britain, and a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King’s College, London.
Rita Prates holds an LLM degree in EU and Competition Law from King’s College – University of London, a Post-Graduation in Energy Law from the University of Lisbon – Faculty of Law, a Post-Gra- duation in Corporate Law from Lisbon’s Catholica University – Faculty of Law and a law degree also from Catholica University. Rita is a Legal Adviser at the Merger Control Department of the Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC), the Portuguese Competition Authority and, on behalf of AdC, is co-chairing the Merger Working Group of ECN (European Competition Network) for the period of 2018-2020.
She has also developed extensive merger analysis involving several economic activities and was the legal case-handler of the last two Merger Prohibition Decisions of the AdC, one related with the handling services sector and other related with the acquisition of premium channels. Before joining the AdC, Rita was a competition lawyer at a top tier Portuguese law firm.
Martin Sauermann is an economist and case officer handler at the European Commission, and before that at the Bundeskartellamt. He has considerable expertise in German and European merger control, has worked on a number of high-profile merger and cartel cases and co-authored the Bundeskartellamt’s Guidance on Transaction Value Thresholds. Furthermore, he was a co-chair of the Bundeskartellamt’s economists’ network. Before joining the Bundeskartellamt in 2012, Martin Sauermann held positions in the solar industry, in academia and at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he specialised in corporate strategy, M&A, banking and finance. He regularly gives guest lectures on competition policy and economics, and writes articles on competition policy, M&A and banking. Martin Sauermann received his Doctorate in Economics at the University of Düsseldorf in 2010, was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Oxford, received Master degrees in European Public Affairs and in Economics in Maastricht and Bonn and is a CFA® charterholder.
Rafał Stankiewicz is Professor at the Department of Law and Administrative Procedure at Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. A member of the European Law Institute in Vienna.
An attorney-at-law. Deputy Dean of the Council of Attorneys-at-Law in Warsaw. Vice President of the Foundation for the Protection of Competition and Sector Regulation „IUS PUBLICUM”. A member of the Board of the National Institute of Local Government. (ORCID: 0000-0002-3227-7771)
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Maarit Taurula has 20 years of experience in competition law. She currently works for the Finnish Com- petition and Consumer Authority (FCCA) as a Head of Department dealing with antitrust enforcement.
Prior to starting as Head of Department in 2018, she was in charge of the FCCA’s public procurement supervision (2017-2018) and merger control functions (2010-2016). She has also worked in several areas within the agency’s antitrust units. She has acted as Head of Research in charge of the agency’s antitrust investigations in e.g. telecom and energy sectors (2005-2006) as well as basic industries, construction and transport sectors (2008-2010). Maarit has graduated from the faculty of law in Helsinki University.
Prior to joining the FCCA she gained experience in a law firm and the legal services of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
David Viros is a graduate of the Sorbonne (Master’s in European Law), Cambridge University (BA in Law) and Sciences Po Paris (Governmental Affairs). Admitted to the Paris Bar, he practiced as a compe- tition lawyer for several years at French firm Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier, before joining the Autorité de la concurrence in 2012, first as European Adviser to the President and then as his Chief of Staff. Since 2017, David is référendaire (legal secretary) at the Court of Justice of the European Union, where he has dealt with a number of annulment proceedings brought against State aids and cartel decisions. David contributes regularly, through articles, speeches and teaching engagements, on issues pertaining to com- petition law enforcement. David also acts as non-governmental advisor to the Autorité de la concurrence within the International Competition Network.
