WilmerHale Secures EU and US Merger Clearance for Cisco's Acquisition of TANDBERG

Download IconDownload Print IconPrint

WilmerHale Secures EU and US Merger Clearance for Cisco's Acquisition of TANDBERG

Client News

Related Solutions

Antitrust and Competition

WilmerHale Brussels has a collegial team culture geared to providing results in often-demanding proceedings. We have extensive experience in all areas of EU competition law, including mergers before the European Commission, worldwide merger control filings, cartel investigations (in Europe and worldwide), abuse of monopoly power, and State aid cases. We also regularly provide transactional advice, supporting joint ventures and distribution systems.

Our team has helped clients in some of the largest and most complex mergers of recent years, guiding them through EU merger control, including Phase 1 and Phase 2 cases with remedies, and other challenges requiring policy insight, legislative advocacy and government affairs experience. We have handled hundreds of procedures, ranging from cartel defense work to other alleged infringements and complaints. We have successfully represented third parties seeking to oppose mergers or challenge monopolies and exclusionary conduct, both through EC proceedings and litigation. We have assisted clients with State aid procedures.

 
Antitrust and Competition
“The firm is at its best during a fight—whether that’s against an enforcer, or in court against a private litigant.” — Global Competition Review
WilmerHale is uniquely positioned to provide counseling, strategic advice and litigation representation to clients confronting issues involving both antitrust and intellectual property law—and the intersection between the two.
We offer clients exceptional insight in dealing with competition agencies in the United States, Europe and around the world.
Antitrust and Competition
On March 29, 2010, the European Commission granted conditional phase I clearance for Cisco's proposed acquisition of Tandberg, a global leader in video communications based in Oslo, Norway, and New York. Within an hour of the Commission issuing its press statement, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice issued its own release confirming that, in light of the commitments Cisco had given to the European Commission, it was not challenging the merger.

WilmerHale represented Cisco before both the Antitrust Division and the European Commission. In Brussels, Partners Sven Völcker and John Ratliff led the work, assisted by Counsel Cormac O'Daly, and Senior Associates Alexander Israel and Roberto Grasso. The team in Washington DC was headed by Partners Jim Lowe and Hartmut Schneider, and included Counsel Ruediger Schuett Associates Stacy Humes-Schulz and Gregory R. Evans, and Staff Attorney Kristin Ellis. Wiersholm and Fenwick & West LLP advised Cisco on the corporate aspects of the transaction.

“We are grateful for the opportunity to demonstrate once again our capabilities on significant transatlantic antitrust matters,” commented WilmerHale's Co-Managing Partner William J. Perlstein. “As this case illustrates, the antitrust authorities are working together very closely and our ability to provide coordinated advice and representation on both sides of the Atlantic is a great benefit to our clients.”

Notice

Unless you are an existing client, before communicating with WilmerHale by e-mail (or otherwise), please read the Disclaimer referenced by this link.(The Disclaimer is also accessible from the opening of this website). As noted therein, until you have received from us a written statement that we represent you in a particular manner (an "engagement letter") you should not send to us any confidential information about any such matter. After we have undertaken representation of you concerning a matter, you will be our client, and we may thereafter exchange confidential information freely.

Thank you for your interest in WilmerHale.

I Accept Cancel