Assimakis Komninos

Partner at White and Case LLP

Speaker

Assimakis Komninos's 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. His highlights include representing Google in the Android and Heureka cases, Amazon in the Italian carve-out case (BuyBox), CCIA in Google Shopping, GlaxoSmithKline 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.

Clients look to Assimakis for his proven track record and his ability to combine quietly resolving the most sensitive and complex investigations with aggressively litigating to achieve the necessary results. Chambers Global 2021 notes that he is "brilliant", giving "concrete advice and never hides behind legal words", while Legal 500 2020 lauds him for "his professionalism, proactive mentality and good communication ethos.