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Assimakis (Makis) Komninos is a Partner at the Brussels office of White & Case LLP. He has acted in many landmark cases before the EU Courts. His highlights include representing Google in the Android and Heureka cases, Amazon in the Italian carve-out case (BuyBox), CCIA in Google Shopping, Bulgarian Energy Holding in BEH and being part of the Microsoft litigation team (2004-2009). He has acted in numerous preliminary reference cases, including both of the only two competition preliminary reference cases to the CJEU from Greece (for GlaxoSmithKline). He has also been involved in complex Phase II merger clearance cases in the airline, energy and telecoms sectors. Makis was a Commissioner and Member of the Board of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) between 2009 and 2011. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) at the College of Europe and a visiting professor at Panthéon-Assas University Paris II.