Experience

Laurent Garzaniti is a partner in our antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) group, based in the Brussels office. He is a Belgian qualified lawyer and a member of the New York Bar.

Laurent has a broad range of experience in both EU and Belgian competition law, with particular expertise in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), energy and natural resources, and transport sectors. He has extensive experience in the cartel and merger control arenas and regularly represents clients in proceedings before national competition authorities, the European Commission and the European courts. He also has considerable experience of co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional investigations.

Laurent is the author of Telecommunications, Broadcasting and the Internet: EU Competition Law and Regulation, published by Sweet & Maxwell, which is currently in its third edition. He is recognised in his fields of expertise by each of the principal legal directories including Chambers (Global and European guides), The Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer? and the International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers.

He was educated at the University of Liège (Belgium), the University of Cambridge (UK) and Columbia Law School (US). Laurent speaks French, English, Dutch, Italian and has a basic knowledge of Spanish.

Languages

French, English, Dutch

Contact details

laurent.garzaniti
@freshfields.com

  • Brussels office
  • Bastion Tower
    Place du Champ de Mars
    Marsveldplein 5
    B-1050 Brussels
    Belgium
  • Telephone
  • +32 2 504 7115
  • Fax
  • +32 2 404 7115