Giuditta Caldini
Partner
Brussels
giuditta.caldini@lw.com
+32.2.788.6138
PRACTICES
- Antitrust & Competition
- European Union Life Sciences Regulatory
- Litigation & Trial
INDUSTRIES
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Technology
EDUCATION
- LLM, College of Europe, Bruges, 2013
- LLB, King's College London, 2012
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- Italian
- English
- French
PROFILE
Giuditta Caldini, Deputy Office Managing Partner of the Brussels office, represents clients in many of their most significant and complex competition law matters.
Giuditta leverages extensive cross-border antitrust experience to provide creative and pragmatic solutions to leading multinational companies. Her expertise spans across:
- Merger control
- Antitrust investigations and litigation
- Antitrust policy and related regulations, including the Digital Markets Act
- Interface of competition law and intellectual property issues, including standard essential patents
Giuditta collaborates across Latham’s robust platform to advise clients in a broad range of industries, with particular experience in the technology, media, healthcare, telecoms, automotive, and consumer goods sectors.
Giuditta frequently speaks on a broad range of topics related to competition law including merger control and antitrust investigations and litigation, including as a guest lecturer for King’s College London. A recognized leader at the firm, she has served on Latham’s global Associates Committee.
EXPERIENCE
Giuditta’s experience includes representing:
Merger Control
- Microsoft in its US$19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance
- Microsoft in its US$7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub
- Vodafone, Telefónica, and Orange in a joint venture to create a technology platform in Europe
- Teleperformance in its Є3 billion acquisition of Majorel
- Siemens Healthineers in its US$16.4 billion acquisition of Varian Medical Systems
- Mellanox in its US$7 billion sale to NVIDIA
- Deutsche Telekom in its acquisition of Tele2’s Dutch telecom operations (EC Phase II)*
- TeliaSonera in its proposed joint venture with Telenor in Denmark (EC Phase II)*
Antitrust Investigations and Litigation
- Valve in an antitrust investigation concerning its Steam videogame platform before the European Commission and related proceedings before the European Courts
- Broadcom in abuse of dominance proceedings concerning its set-top-box and modem business before the European Commission and related court proceedings before the European Courts
- Multinational companies in several European Commission’s investigations into the enforcement of intellectual property rights, including standards-essential patents
- Multinational companies in several abuse of dominance proceedings before the European Commission
- Multinational companies in several proceedings before the European Commission related to alleged anticompetitive agreements with competitors
- Multinational companies in antitrust proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority
- A major automotive supplier in a referral to the European Court of Justice relating to national proceedings on abuse of dominance and standard essential patents
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham