Professors of BSC

Experience

Miguel Rato is a partner in the firm’s Brussels office where his practice focuses on EU competition law. He advises clients on a wide array of contentious and non-contentious EU competition law issues, with a particular focus on unilateral conduct matters, transactions, and IP licensing in high-tech industries. His experience also encompasses EU merger control and State aid investigations.

Miguel has been involved in some of the leading competition cases in high-tech industries and at the intersection of IP and competition law, including the European Commission’s five-year Article 102 investigation into Qualcomm (which garnered the Legal Business award for Competition Team of the Year 2010) and the European Commission’s investigation of Microsoft’s conduct regarding the Internet Explorer browser.

From May 2004 to November 2005, Miguel worked as a Référendaire (Clerk) at the European General Court (EGC) in Luxembourg. Whilst at the EGC, he dealt with cases pertaining to the fields of EC trade mark, competition, State aid and customs law.
Earlier in his career, Miguel completed a traineeship at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition. He primarily dealt with cases concerning general services, transport infrastructure and sports, notably the investigation into UEFA’s rules on multiple ownerships of football clubs.