Damien Geradin

Damien Geradin is a partner in the firm's Brussels office, with broad experience in EU competition law.

Mr. Geradin's practice focuses on the interface between competition and intellectual property, as well as the regulation of network industries. He advises businesses, governments and regulatory agencies on issues affecting a variety of industries, including telecommunications, media, energy and transport. Mr. Geradin also has significant experience in the area of standardisation and IP licensing.

Mr. Geradin is currently a Professor of competition law and economics at Tilburg University and a William Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Over the years, he has held visiting Professorships at leading US law schools including Columbia, Harvard and Yale. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics (Oxford University Press).

According to Chambers Global (2011), Mr. Geradin "is well known for his writing, with commentators describing him as "one of the best antitrust theoreticians around."

Representative Matters

· CEZ in the European Commission's investigation of some of their practices on the Czech energy market.

· Slovak Telekom in the European Commission's investigation of their pricing practices on the Slovak broadband market.

· Microsoft in the European Commission's investigation in relation to the alleged tying of Internet Explorer with Microsoft's Windows Operating System.

· Qualcomm in the European Commission's investigation regarding complaints lodged by Nokia, Ericsson, NEC, Panasonic, Texas instruments and Broadcom.

· A third party intervener objecting to the merger of Google and DoubleClick.

· Qualcomm regarding the competition law aspects of patent infringement cases they brought against Nokia in France, Italy, Germany and the UK.

· Qualcomm in a KFTC antitrust investigation of their business practices.

· Motion Picture Association (MPA) as their regular antitrust counsel.

Honors and Rankings

· Chambers Global, Competition/European Law (Belgium) (2011-2012)

· Chambers Europe, Competition/European Law - Belgium (2011)

· Chambers Europe, TMT - Belgium (2011)

· Legal 500 EMEA, Competition - Belgium (2010-2011)

· Who's Who Legal, Regulatory Communications (2011-2012)

· Who's Who Legal, Competition (2010)

· PLC Which Lawyer? EU Competition (2010)

Publications

· "EU Competition Law and Economics," Oxford University Press (3/22/2012), Co-Author

· "The Perils of Antitrust Proliferation: The Globalization of Antitrust and the Risks of Overregulation of Competitive Behavior," Chicago Journal of International Law (2009), Author

· "Pricing Abuses by Essential Patent Holders in a Standard-Setting Context: A View from Europe," 76 Antitrust Law Journal 329 (2009), Author

· "A Proposed Test for Separating Pro-competitive Conditional Rebates from Anti-competitive Ones," 32 World Competition (2009), Author

· "Revisiting Injunctive Relief: Interpreting eBay in High-Tech Industries with Non-Practicing Patent Holders," 4 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 571 (2008), Co-Author

· "Competing Away Market Power? An Economic Assessment of Ex Ante Auctions in Standard Setting," European Competition Journal (2008), Co-Author

· "The Complements Problem Within Standard Setting: Assessing the Evidence on Royalty Stacking," Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law (2008), Co-Author

· "Can Standard-Setting Lead to Exploitative Abuse? A Dissonant View on Patent Hold-up, Royalty-Stacking and the Meaning of FRAND," European Competition Law Journal (2007), Co-Author

· "Global Antitrust Law and Economics," Foundation Press (2007), Co-Author

· "The logic and limits of ex ante competition in a standard-setting environment," Competition Policy International (2007), Co-Author

· "Standardization and Technological Innovation: Some Reflections on Ex-ante Licensing, FRAND, and the Proper Means to Reward Innovators," World Competition (2006), Author

· "Price Discrimination Under EC Competition Law: Another Antitrust Theory in Search of Limiting Principles," Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2006), Co-Author

· "The Concurrent Application of Competition Law and Regulation: The Case of Margin Squeeze Abuses in the Telecommunications Sector," Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2005), Co-Author

· "The Future of the Postal Monopoly: American and European Perspectives after the Presidential Commission and Flamingo Industries," World Competition (2005), Co-Author

· "The EC Fining Policy for Violations of Competition Law: An Empirical Review of the Commission Decisional Practice and the Community Courts' Judgments," European Competition Journal (2005), Co-Author

· "Access to Content by new Media Platforms: A Review of the EC Competition law Problems," European Law Review (2005), Author

· "The Development of European Regulatory Agencies: What the EU Should Learn from the American Experience," Columbia Journal of European Law (2005), Author

· "Limiting the Scope of Article 82 of the EC Treaty: What can the EU Learn from the US Supreme Court's Judgment in Trinko in the wake of Microsoft, IMS, and Deutsche Telekom," Common Market Law Review (2004), Author

Presentations and Speeches

· "Introduction to the Workshop," EU Competition Law & Online Search and Search Advertising (3/16/2012)

· "The Economics and Law of Internet Search," Searle Symposium (9/10/2010)

· "Standard, Patent Pools, and Innovation," Antitrust and Innovation Symposium, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Stanford Law School (5/20/2010)