Sascha Schubert

Sascha’s representative experience prior to joining Latham includes advising:

• Alere, a medical diagnostics company, on the multijurisdictional merger control aspects of its US$5 billion merger with Abbott, which included litigation relating to cooperation covenants before the US courts, resulting in clearance subject to divestment remedies in the EU and the US
• Amadeus IT Group on:
  • Acquiring US airline IT company Navitaire
  • Successful defense in the European Commission (EC)’s multiyear antitrust investigation into parity clauses, resulting in the case’s closure without finding an infringement
• Apple on the EC’s investigations into its compliance with the DMA
• CK Hutchison on its takeovers of Telefónica’s Irish mobile phone operator O2 and Orange Austria, both four-to-three mobile market consolidations that triggered Phase II investigations by the EC
• Liberty Global on complex merger control and antitrust proceedings, including:
  • Several Phase II and remedy cases, such as the EC’s Phase II merger investigation of the €18 billion sale of its German and Eastern European businesses to Vodafone or Telenet’s acquisition of Belgium’s BASE
  • Telenet’s acting as a remedy taker to enable clearance of the merger between Orange and VOO in Belgium
  • The EU merger control clearance for Telenet’s fiber joint venture with Fluvius
• Siemens on:
  • Various proposed acquisitions, including the Siemens/Alstom merger project, one of the most important test cases for the EU merger control regime
  • Successfully defending against several EC antitrust investigations