Christian Riis-Madsen
Counsel
Christian Riis-Madsen is a counsel in O’Melveny’s Brussels office and a member of the Antitrust/Competition Practice. He focuses on EU competition law and EU regulatory law as well as Danish competition law. Christian has extensive experience advising major corporations on competition law matters, especially merger control, joint ventures, representing defendants in cartel investigations, complaints relating to abuse of dominant position and public procurement.
Christian handles notifications to the European Commission (EC), national competition authorities, and coordinates filings in jurisdictions outside of Europe ranging from South Korea, China and Japan, to Canada, South Africa and Brazil.
Illustrative Professional Experience
- EC Merger Control
- Norsk Hydro/Statoil – for Norsk Hydro in the largest merger in the history of Norway
- INEOS/Kerling – for Norsk Hydro in the unconditional Phase II clearance of its sale of Kerling, and in one of the very few “gun-jumping” investigations ever carried out by the EC
- Honeywell/Novar – for Honeywell obtaining Phase I clearance subject to remedies for the US$1.7 billion acquisition of UK listed company, Novar plc
- Successfully representing a complainant in merger proceedings leading to the abandonment of the merger
- Article 82
- AMD/Intel – for AMD in one of the largest Article 82 cases pending at the EC
- Article 81
- GFU cartel investigation – successfully representing a defendant
- Currently representing a defendant in two cartel investigations
Professional Activities
Member, Advokatsamfundet, Brussels Bar
Co-Author, "EU Energy,"
GCR European Antitrust Review (2007-08); "Strengthened Cartel Enforcement in the EU,"
IBA Competition Law International (2006); "Multi-jurisdictional Merger Control,"
PLC Cross-Border Competition Handbook (2005/06); "New Developments in EU Legislation and Application of Competition Rules to Interconnectors,"
International Energy Law and Taxation Review (2002); "The Increasing Role of EC Competition in a Liberated European Energy Market,"
GCR European Antitrust Review (2002)
Speaker, "Enhancing Deterrence in Competition Law, Compliance Programmes, and Reduction in Fines," Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop, Strathclyde University Law School, Glasgow (2007)
Languages, Danish; English; French; German; Norwegian; Swedish