Miguel Rato
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLPThe antitrust and competition practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP represents both investigated undertakings and complainants, as well as interveners in mergers, cartel defences, dominance cases, and State aid matters. It fields experts in both public and private enforcement of competition law, with particular experience of the high-tech, telecoms, media, life sciences, and transportation sectors. Miguel Rato acts as practice head following the departure of Trevor Soames to Geradin Partners in January 2025.
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Key clients
- Qualcomm Inc.
- Salesforce
- Slack Inc.
- Air Canada
- WebGroup Czech Republic a.s.
Work highlights
- Representing Qualcomm Inc. in appealing the Commission decision in Case AT. 39711 (Qualcomm - predation) finding that Qualcomm abused its dominance by selling certain UMTS chipsets below “cost” to two strategically important customers, with the intention of eliminating Icera.
- Representing Qualcomm Inc. in the European Commission investigation into Qualcomm regarding radio frequency front-end chips which can be used in 5G devices.
- Representing Slack/Salesforce in the EC’s continuing investigation into Slack’s Article 102 complaint against Microsoft, alleging that Microsoft is breaching EU competition rules by engaging in a series of abusive behaviours.
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