Veronica Pinotti
Partner, Milan, White & Case

‘Veronica Pinotti is an Italian qualified lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in the area of EU competition and regulatory law. Veronica regularly advises European and international clients before the European Commission, national competition regulatory authorities, as well as civil and administrative courts. Veronica provides strategic advice on the feasibility and authorization of complex joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions. She brings cutting-edge technical skills and creativity to propose tailor-made solutions, coordinating with advisors in various jurisdictions who are involved in international transactions. Veronica assists with the management of distribution networks, cartels, abuse of dominance, state aid and issues related to regulated markets, antitrust audits and risk assessments of potential antitrust liabilities within judicial proceedings and alternative dispute resolution. She also assists clients on consumer protection, unfair competition and misleading advertising, including any potential criminal aspects.

Veronica has been included in the list of the 40 most Notable Women Competition Professionals in their 40s. She is ranked in Band 3 in Competition European law by Chambers & Partners Europe 2019 and she is also recognized as leading individual in EU and Competition by The Legal 500 2018. According to Chambers “she is an experienced professional and proactive in finding the best solution for the client”. Veronica is also recommended by Global Competition Review’s GCR 100 country survey on Italy and has been recognized by the Italian legal publication TopLegal as one of the most influential Italian lawyers under 50 of age. Veronica has been awarded as “Best Woman Professional of the Year” by the same publication in 2015, being “one of the most prominent competition & regulatory lawyers in the country.”

Axel P. Schulz
Partner, Brussels, Düsseldorf, White & Case

Axel is the Executive Partner of the Brussels office. He supports clients with a broad range of German and European Commission competition law matters.

He offers clients the benefit of his significant experience in this field, having handled merger control cases involving collective dominance and countervailing buyer power, as well as structural links issues in industries including aluminum, paper, energy, automotive, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Axel’s varied sector knowledge is matched by his deep understanding of the cross-border intricacies of competition and antitrust law. The international dimension to his practice enables him to guide both domestic and multinational companies through whatever competitive issues they are faced with, regardless of their scale or multijurisdictional complexity.

Axel’s significant track record in this area includes a number of high profile cases, such as ‘Toshiba v. Commission’ – in which the General Court of the European Union annulled in full the €90.9 million fine imposed on Toshiba by the European Commission, for its alleged participation in the Gas Insulated Switchgear cartel. He also worked on Toshiba’s Cathode Ray Tube appeal, as well as the oral hearings in T-113/07 before the European Court of Justice, and the Transformers (Case COMP/39.129) hearing before the General Court.

Regularly called upon to head up teams of the Firm’s lawyers, Axel is also noted for his skill in coordinating advice across multiple offices and territories, to provide his clients with clear and creative solutions to their problems.

Axel is a particularly valued resource for clients in the pharmaceutical industry. Recognized as a leading life sciences lawyer by Who’s Who Legal 2012, he has developed a strong track record of helping clients with competition law issues in the fields of distribution, co-marketing, licensing and other kinds of vertical and horizontal cooperation agreements.

A respected authority on the latest competition and antitrust issues, Axel writes regularly for leading legal publications and was honored with the Institute of Competition Law’s 2012 Antitrust Writing Award.

Lorenzo Bocedi
Counsel, CMS

“Lorenzo Bocedi began his collaboration with the Firm in 2006 in the Milan office. He is a member of the Competition & EU Law department as Counsel.

Lorenzo has considerable experience in the field of national and EU competition law. He assists Italian and multinational companies on cartels, communications of concentrations between undertakings to the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) and he regularly organizes compliance programs and trainings on competition law matters and all aspects linked to distribution in the domestic and EU markets.”

Jacquelyn F. MacLennan
Partner, Brussels, London, White & Case

Jacquelyn MacLennan is a partner in White & Case’s global anti trust practice, which has been named Competition Group of the Year by Law 360 an unprecedented 7 times.

Jacquelyn focuses on EU competition law.  She is recognized by Chambers and Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in EU antitrust law and EU trade/regulatory law. She has been twice named Best Woman in Competition and Antitrust in Europe by IFLR, and is included in Global Competition Review’s 100 Elite Women in Antitrust.

Jacquelyn represents leading global corporations in their antitrust deals and in investigations.  She is working on the highest value global transaction currently pending, involving more than 20 antitrust filings.  She has extensive experience in international cartels and unilateral behavior cases, and has litigated cutting- edge EU law cases before the EU Courts in Luxembourg, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and national courts. Jacquelyn is also a member of White & Case’s Business & Human rights group, handling strategic high- risk issues for corporations.  She is the firm’s Global Pro Bono Practice Leader, and a visiting fellow at Edinburgh University’s Europa Institute.

Tilman Kuhn
Partner, Düsseldorf, Brussels, White & Case

Tilman’s international experience across various locations includes merger control reviews, cartel matters, vertical conduct investigations, dominance matters, civil and appellate litigation and advisory work, as well as foreign investment control work. He represents clients across key industries, from oil & gas to chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, automotive and tech.

Prior to joining White & Case, Tilman worked in the Cologne office for a renowned US law firm, with a particular focus on German and European antitrust law. During this time, he spent one year at the Brussels office.

Juve states competitors are describing him as “good and well experienced, especially regarding merger control cases”. He is a prolific author on antitrust law and is an active member of Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht.

Marc Israel
Partner, London, White & Case

Marc is a partner in the Firm’s Global Antitrust Practice. He has considerable experience in a wide range of antitrust work and has been involved in some of the most high-profile UK and European cases in recent years in the fields of M&A, cartels and antitrust litigation. Many of these cases have determined the way important procedural matters are considered in mergers, antitrust and litigation cases and led to changes in guidance published  by the UK authorities and the European Commission.

Much of Marc’s work involves dealing with cross-border cases (both for UK and overseas clients) and he regularly represents clients before the UK and European competition authorities, and has also appeared before the UK and European courts in competition cases.

Jonathan Marsh
ECLA President & Vice President, International General Counsel, TotalEnergies Marketing Services

Jonathan Marsh has developed extensive experience over the past 29 years in international business transactions, with over 20 years’ experience in the energy sector, involving long term projects with long investment horizons.  He has deep knowledge of geopolitical and legal risk assessments.  Recognized within his profession, Mr. Marsh serves in leadership roles in French and European professional associations. Jonathan Marsh currently serves as Deputy General Counsel of the Marketing Services Division of the Total S.A. Group legal department.  In this role Mr. Marsh manages the legal activities performed by 170 in-house legal counsel in over 100 countries.  He serves on the Group Legal Committee consisting of 10 General Counsel supervising the global team of 550 lawyers in the Total Group. Previously Mr. Marsh was International General Counsel from 2015 to 2017.

From 2002 to 2015, Mr. Marsh led the Mergers, Acquisitions and Finance Division of the Total S.A. Holding Group Legal Department.Mr. Marsh also served as Group US Counsel, supervising in particular relations with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. Marsh also serves as President of the European Company Lawyers Association, as Vice President International Affairs and on the Board of Directors of the French In-house Counsel Association (Association Française des Juristes d’Entreprises – AFJE) as well as on the Management Committee of the French M&A Association (Association des Responsables de Fusions Acquisitions).

Mr. Marsh holds a Juris Doctor (Graduating cum laude and recipient of the Order of the Coif), and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations (Economic Phases) and French from the University of Wisconsin ‐ Madison.  Nominated by the French Prime Minister, Mr. Marsh participated in the 65^thNational Session (2012-13) of the French Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, a military training program focusing on geopolitical risks and strategies for high ranking military officers and private sector leaders.

Miguel Perez Guerra
Senior Competition Counsel, Google

Miguel is a senior competition counsel at Google in London, where he advises and oversees antitrust matters throughout the EMEA region. He previously worked at Amazon in its European headquarters in Luxembourg, where he was lead counsel to the pan-EU retail and marketplace e-commerce businesses. Prior to moving in-house, he was a senior associate at Linklaters’ Competition & Antitrust team, and was an associate at Clifford Chance’s European Competition and Regulation group before that. He qualified into the Energy & Telecoms department at Spanish law firm Garrigues. He is a graduate in law and in economics by Comillas-ICADE University in Madrid, and has studied international and EU law at Georgetown University and at King’s College London.

Giuseppe Catalano

Company Secretary and Head of Corporate Affairs and President of AIGI

Giuseppe Catalano has been Company Secretary and Head of Corporate Affairs at Assicurazioni Generali SpA since January 2015, with responsibility for coordinating corporate governance-related activities, including serving as secretary of the Board of Directors and Board Committees. Previously, from 2005 to January 2015 he was Legal and Corporate Affairs Executive Director at Indesit Company SpA and from 2000 to 2005 he was Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs at Natuzzi SpA, listed on the NYSE, and before that he was in-house counsel at banks in Italy and Luxembourg. He is a qualified lawyer and earned a Ph.D. graduation from Sant’Anna School in Pisa. Giuseppe has also been a lecturer of International Trade Law and an expert witness for the State Prosecutor in a criminal prosecution relating to analysis of the investigated companies’ compliance models under Italian legislative decree 231/2001. He is the author of several academic articles in various areas of civil and commercial law.

Giuseppe is now the Chairman of AIGI, the Italian Association of In-House Lawyers.