John Schmidt

Partner at Arnold & Porter

Speaker

John Schmidt leads the UK Competition team in London. He has over 25 years of experience dealing with competition authorities and courts in the UK and the EU. He regularly advises on complex competition conduct issues, investigations, litigation, and merger cases with a particular sector focus on the life sciences, consumer goods, and TMT. He is dual-qualified in the UK and Germany with full rights of audience before the European Court of Justice.

John has extensive experience advising pharmaceutical and medical device companies on pricing matters, including a number of reverse payment patent settlement cases both at the EU and UK level as well as investigations into excessive pricing and restrictive agreements in the pharma sector. He also advises on parallel trade and supply chain design, as well as challenging public procurement tenders on behalf of his clients.