Patrick Bock

Partner at Cleary Gottlieb

Speaker

Patrick Bock’s practice focuses on European and U.S. antitrust and competition matters.

He has extensive experience advising on all aspects of EU and U.S. antitrust and competition law. He advises companies in securing merger control and foreign direct investment approvals from competition and other regulatory authorities across Europe and the United States, and manages the coordination of complex merger control proceedings globally.

He regularly assists clients in the defense of cartel and other anti-competitive practice investigations (including abuse of dominance cases) brought by competition authorities globally, as well as in follow-on damages actions by private claimants. He advises a range of clients on an ongoing basis on complex antitrust compliance matters and best practices. He regularly appears before the European Commission, the German Bundeskartellamt, the Federal Trade Commission, and the U.S. Department of Justice.

Patrick joined the firm in Washington, D.C., in 2003 and was on a first rotation in the Brussels office from 2007 to 2009. After becoming partner in 2013, he spent five years in the firm’s Cologne office, before returning to Brussels in 2018.