Georgios Zacharodimos

Mr. Zacharodimos’ experience covers a diverse range of sectors, including air transport, consumer goods, information and communication technology, engineering and pharmaceuticals. He is part of the team that advised Aspen in the European Commission’s Article 102 investigation of the company’s pricing practices, which was awarded Impact Case of the Year at Benchmark Litigation Europe’s 2020 Awards and 2021 European Behavioural Matter of the Year by Global Competition Review.

Mr. Zacharodimos has significant experience assisting multinational corporations in high-profile and complex merger control cases in transactions requiring antitrust clearance. His most recent experience includes advising:

• Downtown Music Holdings LLC on its $775 million acquisition by Virgin Music Group
• Dover Corporation on its €550 million acquisition of Sikora AG
• NXP Semiconductors N.V. on the antitrust aspects of its pending $625 million acquisition of TTTech Auto
• Catalent, Inc. on the antitrust aspects of its acquisition by Novo Holdings A/S at an enterprise value of $16.5 billion
• the special committee of the board of directors of R1 RCM Inc. on the antitrust aspects of its acquisition by investment funds affiliated with TowerBrook Capital Partners, L.P. and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC at an enterprise value of $8.9 billion
• Adobe Inc. on the antitrust aspects of its proposed (but terminated) $20 billion acquisition of Figma, Inc.
• Konecranes Plc on the global antitrust aspects of its proposed (but terminated) merger with Cargotec Corporation
• Air Canada on its CA$720 million acquisition of Transat A.T. Inc.
• Exact Sciences Corp. on its $2.8 billion combination with Genomic Health, Inc.
• Montagu Private Equity LLP and the other shareholders of Equatex on their €354 million disposal to Computershare
• General Electric Company with the antitrust aspects of its $630 million sale of MRA Systems, LLC to Vision Technologies Aerospace Incorporated, a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd.

He also has significant experience counseling on Article 101 and 102 issues in relation to horizontal and vertical agreements and alleged abuse of dominance, as well as on foreign subsidies matters. Relevant work includes advising:

• Aspen Pharmacare Holdings in relation to European Commission allegations of excessive pricing. The commission accepted proposed commitments that ended the investigation without an infringement finding on the part of Aspen
• various clients on pending notifications before the European Commission pursuant to the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation
• a multinational computer software company on private excessive pricing litigation before the Dutch courts

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Zacharodimos worked for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and other domestic and international law firms.