Giorgio Motta
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Brussels)
Lawyer (Partner)
Giorgio Motta joined the Brussels office of Skadden, Arps in 1999. Mr. Motta has a wide-ranging experience in European Community (EC), Italian and international antitrust merger control and cartel enforcement. Mr. Motta advises clients on antitrust aspects of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has worked on numerous transactions requiring international antitrust merger control approvals both in Europe and on a worldwide basis, for clients including Activision in a $18.9 billion combination with French media conglomerate Vivendi and its wholly owned subsidiary Vivendi Games ; American Express Company in its approximately $1.1 billion sale of its American Express Bank to Standard Chartered PLC ; Oakley Inc. in its $2 billion acquisition by the Luxottica Group ; Abbott Laboratories in the $8.1 billion sale of its laboratory testing unit and blood analysis division to General Electric Company ; Guidant Corporation in its $23.9 billion acquisition by Johnson & Johnson and its subsequent $27 billion acquisition by Boston Scientific Corporation ; and Fisher Scientific International in its $12.8 billion merger with Thermo Electron Corporation. Mr. Motta also deals with cartels as well as EC and Italian competition law issues relating to vertical restraints and dominance. He has represented clients in Article 101 (formerly 81) investigations in relation to cartels, trade association membership, strategic alliances, distribution arrangements and other vertical agreements, both before the European Commission and the Italian Competition Authority. In the cartel enforcement area, Mr. Motta has assisted clients in leniency proceedings before the European Commission, and he has advised clients on antitrust compliance issues. Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Motta worked as a legal trainee in the financial services unit of the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. Mr. Motta is a member of the Brussels bar and the Catania bar in Italy.
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The U.K.’s Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has released new merger assessment guidelines that confirm the U.K. regulator’s intensified approach to merger control. The guidelines largely codify the CMA’s recent output, which includes record-high numbers of prohibitions and deal (...)
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Commissioned by the U.K. government to review its antitrust regime, Conservative Member of Parliament John Penrose’s “Power to the People” report proposes streamlined, modest changes rather than wholesale reform to the current regime. The report’s recommendations are outlined below : Merger reviews (...)
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The European Union (EU)-U.K. Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) governing post-Brexit trade relations between the U.K. and the EU includes provisions regulating EU/U.K. antitrust enforcement and cooperation effective January 1, 2021 : Anticompetitive practices and mergers. The TCA provides (...)
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Following its review of a series of global deals in the digital markets space, the U.K.’s Competition & Markets Authority (the CMA) has launched a consultation on revised merger assessment guidelines (the draft guidelines) codifying its evolving practice in the digital sector and addressing (...)
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Sustainability issues are increasingly high on the list of competition policy priorities both at the European Union and member state levels. The European Commission (EC) and national competition authorities are actively rethinking how competition policy can better support the transition to (...)
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The European Commission (EC) has proposed far-reaching new powers to investigate and sanction foreign subsidies that have allegedly distortive effects on the European Union’s (EU) internal market. The proposals include : (i) mandatory notification of acquisitions, including potentially minority (...)
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The European Commission’s (EC) June 2020 white paper proposing wide-ranging controls over foreign-subsidized companies’ access to Europe’s internal market has received fresh impetus. In a report issued earlier this month, the European Union’s (EU) audit body faulted the EC for a hitherto (...)
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As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads rapidly around the world, and countries take unprecedented measures to contain the spread of the disease, businesses are increasingly struggling with the economic impact of this crisis. While airlines, tour operators and event businesses have been among the (...)
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Antitrust-Related Considerations Collaborations With Competitors Companies seeking to collaborate with competitors in response to the COVID-19 crisis must keep in mind, as the Department of Justice has recently cautioned, that the antitrust laws remain in effect, and agreements among (...)
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The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published “Guidance on the Functions of the CMA Under the Withdrawal Agreement” (Guidance), which sets out the regulator’s approach to merger and competition cases during the Brexit transition period that will run until at least through December (...)
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A recent decision by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), Tobii AB (publ) v. Competition and Markets Authority, confirms a deferential standard for the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in its merger prohibitions. The CMA is widely regarded as a thought leader among merger control (...)
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Introduction On September 24, 2019, the EU General Court (General Court) issued its long-awaited judgments in relation to the appeals brought against two European Commission (EC) decisions of 2015 concluding that tax rulings granted by The Netherlands and Luxembourg conferred illegal state aid (...)
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The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its first antitrust decision since obtaining competition law powers four years ago. The decision is a controversial one. It sets the FCA up as a strict enforcer on the type of information that competing investors can share when making (...)
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On November 23, 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice) dealt a blow to the European Commission’s (Commission) power to close antitrust investigations with commitment decisions, with its ruling in Case C-547/16 Gasorba et al. v. Repsol. The Court of Justice ruled that (...)
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On 26 October 2017, the European Commission (the Commission) opened an in-depth investigation into UK statutory rules that exempt certain financing income earned by foreign subsidiaries of UK corporate taxpayers from UK tax. The Commission’s investigation will focus on whether the UK Controlled (...)
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On September 6, 2017 ,the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) quashed the 2014 judgment of the General Court (GC) that upheld a fine of €1.06 billion ($1.5 billion) on Intel Corporation Inc. (Intel) for abusing a dominant market position by implementing loyalty rebates based on (...)
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On 10 May 2017, two years after launching its e-commerce sector inquiry on 6 May 2015, the European Commission published its final report (Final Report) on the inquiry. The inquiry was opened in the framework of the Commission’s broader Digital Single Market strategy, which was aimed at (...)
