Douglas Lahnborg

Douglas Lahnborg is based in London and spends a proportion of his time in the Brussels office, which he founded.

• Engagements

  Representative behavioural/contentious cases

  • Enron Coal Services in its private damages claim against English Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. This is the first follow-on action to have reached trial in the UK
  • Sony Europe Limited in its damages action before the High Court against AU Optronics and other LCD manufacturers 
  • Asian technology group in its defence before the EU Commission in the DRAM cartel investigation
  • UK technology group in its defence in a Transatlantic cartel investigation involving the Office of Fair Trading and the U.S. Dep’t of Justice
  • Asian manufacturer in its defence in an animal feed cartel investigation
  • Car parts manufacturer in its defence in global cartel investigations
  • GlaxoSmithKline in the EU Commission’s abuse of dominance investigation into GSK’s enforcement of intellectual property rights relating to paroxetine
  • NVIDIA in the EU Commission’s abuse of dominance investigation into Rambus’ charging of royalty rates
  • Telenor in the EU Commission’s investigation into its long term pay-TV distribution agreements
  • TurboHercules in the EU Commission’s abuse of dominance investigation into IBM’s conduct in mainframe computing

  
  

  Representative merger control cases

  • Telenor on the combination of its and TeliaSonera's Mobile Network Operators in Denmark, the first "four to three" mobile telephony transaction under Commissioner Vestager
  • Telenor on the creation of two online classified joint ventures in Asia and South America
  • Telenor on the sale of its mobile telecommunications assets in Russia and Ukraine to VimpelCom; its proposed merger with Telia; and on its acquisitions of various European mobile network operators, including Globul, the Bulgarian operator
  • Areva Transmission & Distribution in connection with its break-up acquisition by Schneider Electric and Alstom
    
  • VTech in the investigation into its completed acquisition of LeapFrog
  • Crane Co., a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, in its acquisition of MEI Conlux Holdings, provider of unattended payment systems
  • U-Shin on its acquisition of Valeo’s Vehicle Access Mechanism Business
  • Exxaro Resources on the combination of its mineral sands business with Tronox
  • Venture Production on the hostile takeover bid launched by Centrica
  • Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (now Vale) on its public bid for Inco
  • Ericsson on its mobile handset joint venture with Sony
  • BAE Systems on the restructuring of Airbus; the creation of a rocket propellant joint venture; and its acquisition of United Defense
  • Aviva on its public bid for RAC
  • Temasek on its public bid for P&O Ports
  • Glaxo Wellcome on its merger with SmithKline Beecham 
  • H.J. Heinz on its completed acquisition of HP Foods 
  • Cable & Wireless on its acquisition of telecoms operator Energis