Biography

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Biography
Biography
James S. Venit
Partner
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Antitrust Matters and Competition Law
Jim Venit, co-head of the Antitrust Competition practice for Europe, has extensive
international antitrust and European competition law experience. He has been practicing
competition law in Brussels since 1980. His experience includes representing multinational companies in proceedings under the Merger Regulation and Articles 101 and 102
(formerly 81 and 82). He has represented clients in a wide range of economic sectors
and has extensive experience counseling companies on compliance matters and the
implementation of compliance programs.
Mr. Venit has written extensively on various aspects of competition law and was
named one of the “Top 10 antitrust lawyers” from around the world by Global
Counsel. He repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in Chambers Global: The
World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, Mr. Venit was named a leading
practitioner in his field by Who’s Who Legal: Competition Lawyers & Economists and
Who’s Who Legal: Competition.
Publications
• “An Effects-Based Approach to Article 102 – A Response to Wouter Wils” (with
Patrick Rey), 38 World Competition 1 (2015)
• “Case T-286/09 Intel v Commission—The Judgment of the General Court: All
Steps Backward and No Steps Forward,” European Competition Journal, 2014
Brussels Office
T: 32.2.639.0300
F: 32.2.639.0339
E: james.venit@skadden.com
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law,
1979 (New York University Law Review;
Order of the Coif)
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1976
M.A., Columbia University, 1971
B.A., Yale University, 1967 (Phi Beta
Kappa; summa cum laude)
Bar Admissions
New York
Languages
French
German
• “The Intel Judgment, File Access, and Confidentiality in EU Competition Cases:
Has the Time Come for Reform?” Journal of European Competition Law &
Practice, 2014
• “Competition Compliance: Fines and Complementary Incentives,” (with Andrew
Foster) European Competition Law Annual 2011: Integrating Public and Private
Enforcement Competition – Implications for Courts and Agencies, 2011
• “The Scope of EU Judicial Review of Commission Merger Decisions,” European
Competition Law Annual 2010: Merger Control in European and Global
Perspective, 2010
• “Human All Too Human: The Gathering and Assessment of Evidence and the
Appropriate Standard of Proof and Judicial Review in Commission Enforcement
Proceedings Applying Articles 81 and 82,” European Competition Law Annual
2009: Evaluation of Evidence and its Judicial Review in Competition Cases, 2009
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James S. Venit
• “Cooperation, Initiative and Regulation – A Cross Cultural Inquiry,” European
Competition Law Annual 2007: A Reformed Approach to Article 82, 2008
• “Article 82: Exceptional Circumstances: The IP/Antitrust Interface After IMS
Health,” European Competition Law Annual 2005: The Interaction Between
Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law, 2005
• Article 82: “The Last Frontier – Fighting Fire with Fire?” 28 Fordham International
Law Journal 1157, 2005
• “The Commission’s New Power to Question and Its Implications for Human
Rights,” Fordham Corp. L. Inst. 675, 2005
• “Parallel Trade and Pharmaceuticals: A Policy in Search of Itself,” E.L. Rev, 153,
2004
• “Brave New World: The Modernization and Decentralization of Enforcement under
Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty,” CML Rev. (Vol 40, 545), 2003
• “The Role of Efficiencies in Merger Control,” published in EC Merger Control A
Major Reform in Progress (Götz Drauz and Michael Reynolds, Eds.), 2002
• “The Treatment of Joint Ventures under the EC Merger Regulation – Almost
through the Thicket,” International Antitrust Law & Policy, Fordham University
School of Law, 1999
• “Two Steps Forward and No Steps Back: Economic Analysis and Oligopolistic
Dominance after Kali & Salz,” 35 Common Market Law Review 1101, 1998
• “Essential Facilities: A Comparative Approach,” Fordham Corp. L. Inst. 315, 1994
• “Oedipus Rex: Recent Developments in the Structural Approach to Joint Ventures
Under EEC Competition Law,” 14 Journal of World Competition Law 5, 1991
• “The Evaluation of Concentrations Under the Merger Control Regulation: The
Nature of the Beast,” 14 Fordham International Law Journal 412, 1990-1991
• “In the Wake of Windsurfing: Patent Licensing in the Common Market,” Fordham
Corporate Law Institute, 1987
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