Mario Barka

mario.barka@lw.com

+32.2.788.6163

Profile

Mario Barka is an associate in the Brussels office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Global Antitrust & Competition Practice.

Mario advises clients in all areas of EU and international competition law, with specific experience in behavioral cases, multijurisdictional merger control clearances, as well as regulatory compliance.

Prior to joining Latham, Mario worked as an associate at another international law firm in Brussels.

Experience

A selection of Mario’s experience includes representing:

A major semiconductor company in an abuse-of-dominance investigation by the European Commission*
Saudi Aramco in its US$69.1 billion acquisition of SABIC*
Saudi Aramco in its acquisition of Valvoline Inc.’s global products business*
DIC Corporation in its acquisition of BASF's global pigments business*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

Brussels Bar - A List

Education

LLM in European Law, College of Europe, Bruges, 2018
Master in European Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2017
LLB, University of Strasbourg, 2016

Languages Spoken

English
French
Greek
Albanian

Practices

Industries

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