Morten Nissen

Partner at Bird & Bird

Speaker

Morten is co-head of Bird & Bird's global Competition law practice group. Ranked in legal directories such as Chambers and Partners, he was awarded the Lexology Client Choice Award in the Competition & Antitrust category in 2019 and 2021. Morten's focus is primarily on merger control, abuse of dominance, anticompetitive practices, State aid, FDI and Foreign Subsidies. He particularly focuses on using competition law as a tool to obtain specific and measurable commercial goals for his clients. Morten has dealt with numerous cases on abuse of dominance (e.g. margin squeeze, predatory pricing, refusal to supply, etc); anticompetitive agreements (exclusivity, price-fixing, etc.) and State aid (e.g. overcompensation, definition of public service, cross-subsidisation, etc.). He has solid litigation experience before the European courts in Luxembourg, including before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice, and deep-set experience in the following industry sectors: IT, energy, telecoms, passenger transport, international payment systems, software, music rights and media.