Assimakis Komninos

Assimakis Komninos is a partner at White & Case in Brussels and a visiting professor at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.

His practice focuses on European Union competition law, including abuse of dominance, restrictive agreements, merger control, private antitrust litigation, and competition issues in international arbitration. He also advises on the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act. Komninos has represented clients before the European Commission, EU courts, national competition authorities and courts, and international arbitration tribunals.

Before becoming a partner at White & Case, Komninos served as a commissioner and board member of the Hellenic Competition Commission, where he adjudicated antitrust and merger cases and represented Greece at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and International Competition Network (ICN) meetings. Earlier, he was a senior associate at White & Case and practiced commercial and European law independently in Athens.

Komninos is a member of the executive committee of the Global Competition Law Centre at the College of Europe. He previously taught EU competition law at UCLouvain.

Komninos earned a Ph.D. in competition law from the European University Institute, an LL.M. in international business and antitrust law from New York University School of Law, and an LL.M. in European and commercial law from the University of Cambridge. He also earned an LL.B., summa cum laude, from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.