Damien Geradin

Practice Areas

Damien Geradin is the founding partner of Geradin Partners. Before founding Geradin Partners, Damien was a partner at Euclid Law, and immediately before that a partner in the Brussels office of Covington & Burling LLP.

Damien has assisted clients in many high-stake European Commission investigations, including some of the most complex abuse of dominance cases with a focus on the tech, media and telecommunications sectors. Damien has also developed expertise on the application of competition rules to the licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs), and he is a member of the Commission Expert Group on SEP licensing and valuation.

According to Chambers Global, Mr. Geradin “is well known for his writing”, with commentators describing him as “one of the best antitrust theoreticians around”. Chambers Europe also notes that clients report that he is “very responsive and skilled in abuse of dominance cases” and that he is a “a living legend” regarding his work on EU telecoms mandates. Damien was also recognised by Who’s Who Legal 2018 as a Competition expert.

Damien is a Professor of competition law and economics at Tilburg University and a visiting Professor at University College London. Over the years, he has held visiting Professorships at leading US law schools including Columbia, Harvard, Michigan and Yale. He was also a visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, for 15 years.

Publications

- Damien is the founder and an editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics.

- Damien has authored/co-authored over 20 books and 140 book chapters and articles published in journals, such as the Antitrust Law Journal, the European Competition Journal, World Competition, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Journal, the Journal of Competition law & Economics, the Stanford Technology Law Review, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, etc.

- Damien has spoken at over 250 conferences on issues of competition law and IP law all over the world.

Education