Clifford Chance
Anastasios Tomtsis advises major companies from a wide range of industries on global antitrust and EU law. He has particular expertise in EU and multi-jurisdictional merger control, and in state aid control.
Anastasios represents clients before the Court of Justice of the EU and also handles behavioural antitrust and trade law matters.
- Advised Pfizer on:
- its HIV joint venture (ViiV) with GSK
- its US$68 billion acquisition of Wyeth
- the implementation of its commitments to the European Commission in relation to its acquisition of Hospira
- its HIV joint venture (ViiV) with GSK
- Advised OPAP SA on its actions before the EU General Court (T-57/13 and T-58/13) and the EU Court of Justice (C-131/15), case Casino Loutraki, others v. Commission, in support of the EU Commission's Decision C(2012) 6777 in SA.33988
- Advised Hellenic Petroleum SA and the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund SA on the divestment of their stakes in Public Gas Corporation
- Advised Moravia Gas Storage (formerly Globula) on its actions before the EU General Court (T-465/11) and the EU Court of Justice (C-596/13) against the EU Commission's decision regarding third party access to the Underground Gas Storage Facility in Damborice (Czech Republic).
- Advised Citi on the sale of its consumer banking business in Greece
- Advised Emma Capital on Emma Delta's acquisition of a 33% stake in the Greek gaming company OPAP SA
- Advised the Belgian government on securing state aid clearance(s) for the Dexia restructuring
- Advised KONE on its actions before the EU General Court (T-151/07) and the EU Court of Justice (C-510/11) against the EU Commission's decision on the elevators and escalators investigation
- Advised the Software & Information Industry Association on its interventions in the follow-on appeals before the EU General Court (T-167/08 and T-271/06) regarding the EU abuse of dominance investigation of Microsoft
- Clifford Chance advises Emma Capital on the €712 million acquisition by Emma Delta of a stake in Greek gaming monopoly, OPAP, and on the groundbreaking €400 million high yield financing – the first known instance where high yield notes were used to finance the purchase of a non-majority stake in a publicly listed company
- Clifford Chance obtains favourable judgment for KONE OYJ in first ever Commission cartel damages litigation
- Clifford Chance advises Apollo Management LP and CVC Capital Partners on their recommended bid for Brit Insurance Holdings N.V, valuing the target at up to £888 million in the second largest UK public to private deal in 2010
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, Brussels
- +3225335933
- Email me
- Speaks English, French and Greek
- Practice area M&A corporate, Antitrust, EU & trade
- Sector Consumer goods & retail, Power & energy networks, Banks, Telecommunications, media & technology, Oil & gas, Transport & logistics, Capital goods, Private equity, Healthcare, life sciences & chemicals, Funds & investment management, Mining & metals
Career and qualifications
- Aristotle University Thessaloniki (LLB) 2004
- EALT - FU St Louis (DEA – Onassis Foundation Scholar) 2005
- Harvard Law School (LLM – Fulbright Fellow) 2006
- Joined Clifford Chance 2006
- Admitted as a dikigoros in Greece 2007
- Admitted as an avocat communautaire in Brussels 2008
- Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2011
- Counsel 2013
- Partner since 2017
Professional bodies
- Member of the ABA (American Bar Association)