Riccardo Celli Partner Brussels D: +32-2-642-41-34
[email protected] Riccardo Celli is Chair of O’Melveny’s European Antitrust and Admissions Competition Practice, the Regional Head of Litigation for Europe, and managing partner of the firm’s Brussels office. Riccardo Bar Admissions joined O’Melveny in June 2004 when he founded the Brussels Solicitor, Supreme Court of England office. and Wales (1994) Italy, Avvocato (1986) Riccardo has almost 30 years of experience in counseling clients on all aspects of EU competition law with particular focus on merger control, unilateral conducts, cartel investigations, Education IP/antitrust interface and antitrust compliance. University of Rome (La Sapienza), Riccardo has worked for many of the world’s largest corporations, Law (1983) and has been involved in high-profile cases covering many global industries. For example, Riccardo led the O’Melveny-Brussels team that advised AMD in its Article 102 complaint against Intel, in which the European Commission fined Intel a record €1.06 billion for its anti-competitive practices. O’Melveny’s EU team won the 2010 “Competition Team of the Year” at The Lawyer Awards for its representation of AMD, and Riccardo was a finalist for the “Partner of the Year” award for his leadership during the case. In the area of merger control, Riccardo regularly assists clients with the legal assessment, structuring and clearance of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other significant investments. Riccardo manages and coordinates multiple filings for clients, not only in Europe but worldwide, and interacts with competition authorities in multiple countries for a single transaction, including assisting clients in preparing and negotiating possible commitments with regulators.