Ketevan Zukakishvili

Ketevan Zukakishvili advises clients on all aspects of EU, U.K. and international competition law, including multijurisdictional merger control, antitrust compliance, digital regulation, cartel investigation, abuse of dominant position and state aid matters. She has been involved in several high-profile matters in the tech sector, as well as in-depth merger control transactions requiring international antitrust merger control approvals around the world.

Ms. Zukakishvili’s experience includes advising:

• Prosus N.V. on the antitrust aspects of its €4.1 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V.
• Getty Images Holdings, Inc. on its $3.7 billion merger-of-equals with Shutterstock, Inc.
• Berry Global Group, Inc. on its $37 billion acquisition by Amcor plc
• ByteDance Limited in matters relating to the European Commission’s decision to designate ByteDance’s TikTok platform as a “gatekeeper” under the EU’s Digital Markets Act
• Visa Inc. on the antitrust aspects of its acquisition of Featurespace Limited
• Catalent, Inc. on its $16.5 billion acquisition by Novo Holdings A/S, the holding and investment company for the Novo Nordisk Foundation

Prior to joining Skadden, Ms. Zukakishvili worked in the Brussels office of another international law firm. She also completed a traineeship at the Legal Service of the European Commission, worked at the Georgian Competition Authority and undertook a short-term secondment at the Competition Division of the OECD. During her studies, Ms. Zukakishvili received several merit-based scholarships, including a bilateral fellowship to undertake an exchange program at Vilnius University in Lithuania and the U.S. government’s prestigious Global UGRAD scholarship for an exchange year at Utica College in New York.