Awards and recognition — 04/12/2025

Geradin Partners ranked in Global Competition Review across 4 jurisdictions

Geradin Partners, the specialist competition, regulatory and litigation firm, was recognised in the Global Competition Review’s “GCR 100” rankings for four of the jurisdictions in which it is active, a unique achievement for our growing firm. 

In Brussels, the firm is Recommended, along with several long-standing EU practices of large international law firms. GCR highlights the firm’s defence work for Corning Incorporated, for which it secured a commitments decision in July 2025. In addition, GCR commends the firm’s representation of Salesforce and Slack in its abuse of dominance complaint against Microsoft, which resulted in the commission confirming a commitments package in September 2025, and of the European Publishers Council in its long-running complaint against Google’s ad tech practices, with the commission issuing a €2.95 billion fine against the company in September 2025.

The firm’s London office is also Recommended, with GCR recognising its work for major tech and media clients, including Bloomsbury Publishing, Bauer Media, and the Daily Mail, on the UK and EU’s evolving digital regulation regimes. GCR also mentions the firm’s work counselling Mustafa Suleyman and the team hired from AI startup Inflection by Microsoft in a CMA probe examining whether the recruitment strategy constituted a merger and its advice to remedy taker Precis in Schlumberger’s $7.8 billion acquisition of ChampionX. Finally, GCR commends the team’s thriving competition litigation practice, advising four class representatives in separate high-stakes collective actions against Google and Amazon worth billions of pounds. 

In the Netherlands, the firm is Highly Recommended, noting the work done for 34 European news media companies in a €2.1 billion follow-on damages claim against Google for alleged ad tech abuses. GCR also highlights the firm’s representation of Stichting Massaschade & Consument in a lawsuit against Sony over alleged anticompetitive practices relating to the PlayStation Store. In merger control, GCR recognises the firm’s assistance to Foresco in winning unconditional ACM approval in Phase II in February 2025 for its purchases of DWP and Vierhouten.

In Finland, the firm is Recommended, with GCR flagging the firm’s work advising Kierrätysteollisuus on potentially anticompetitive practices by municipality-owned waste management companies, with a focus on competitive neutrality and proposed legislative reforms. GCR also recognises the team’s advice to Medialiitto in a state aid matter concerning public broadcaster Yleisradio.

The GCR100 is Global Competition Review’s comprehensive listing of the world’s best competition practices. It features firms in 61 jurisdictions across all six inhabited continents. We are grateful to our clients for the positive feedback provided to GCR in the process of preparing these rankings. 

Separately, Damian Collins OBE who leads the firm’s public affairs practice has been ranked in the top 10 political consultants in the UK by Mace Magazine.  The magazine labels Damian as “The Tech Guru” and says “Clever, calm and respected on all sides of the political divide, Collins served as tech minister and chair of the Commons DCMS Select Committee, leading high-profile inquiries into social media disinformation and the impact of addictive and immersive technologies.”

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Stijn Huijts

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