Review of the Digital Markets Act
Review of the Digital Markets Act


Ingrid Vandenborre is the partner in charge of Skadden’s Brussels office and co-head of Skadden’s European Antitrust/Competition practice. Her practice focuses on EU and international merger control and competition law enforcement.
Ms. Vandenborre has been consistently named as a leading practitioner in Who’s Who Legal guides in both competition and life sciences, as well as repeatedly in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and The Legal 500 EMEA. In 2023, she was named Antitrust & Competition Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Business Law EMEA Awards. Ms. Vandenborre also was named Lawyer of the Year by Global Competition Review in 2022, was selected to GCR’s Women in Antitrust list in 2021 and was recognized for her representation of Aspen Pharmacare in relation to the European Commission’s (EC) Article 102 investigation of the company’s pricing practices, which was named European Behavioural Matter of the Year by the publication. In addition, she was named a 2021 Competition MVP by Law360, a 2021 Litigation Star for Belgium - Competition/Antitrust by Benchmark Litigation Europe and Competition Lawyer of the Year at Benchmark Litigation Europe’s 2020 Awards, which also recognized her work advising Aspen as an Impact Case of the Year. She currently serves as nongovernmental adviser to the intergovernmental International Competition Network.
Ms. Vandenborre has significant experience in Article 101 and 102 issues in relation to cartel arrangements, as well as vertical and competitive agreements and alleged abuse of dominance. She also has a significant merger control practice, extending to the EC and the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority.

Mr. Michael KÖNIG is Adviser for Platform Regulation and the Digital Markets Act in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT). He was front line negotiator for the Digital Markets Act and is now overseeing its implementation in DG CNECT.
Before taking up his position in DG CNECT, Mr König was several years Deputy Head of Unit in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW) in the unit responsible for Online services. He was primarily responsible for B2B relations regarding online platforms and negotiated the Regulation on fairness in platform-to-business relations (P2B Regulation).
Mr König joined the European Commission in 2001 in the Directorate-General for Competition. His assignments included a position as advisor to Directorate-General's top management and a secondment to the OECD, before he joined the Internal Market Directorate-General in 2008. There he held positions in various policy areas including intellectual property, financial services and public procurement.
Before joining the Commission, Mr. König worked for several years in the German Competition Authority and an international law firm.
Mr. König graduated in Law and Economics, and holds a PhD degree in Competition Law.

Antonio Capobianco is the Deputy Head of the OECD Competition Division; he is responsible for the proceedings of the OECD Competition Committee and for other work streams of the Division. Over the years at the OECD, Mr Capobianco has coordinated a series of OECD projects and work streams and has authored numerous Background Notes of the Secretariat on a wide range of competition law enforcement and policy topics. He has led many in-country projects to support domestic reforms and he regularly represents the OECD at international events.
Prior to joining the OECD in 2007, Mr Capobianco was a Counsel in the Competition Department of WilmerHale LLP, based in Brussels. He also spent three years with the Italian Competition Authority. Mr Capobianco authored several articles on antitrust issues published on major international law journals specialized in competition law and he co-authored textbooks on Italian and European competition law and economics. He regularly speaks at international conferences on antitrust and regulation issues. Mr. Capobianco graduated in law at the L.U.I.S.S. - Guido Carli in Rome and holds LL.M. degrees from the Law School of the New York University and from the Institute of European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Thomas Kramler is head of the unit dealing with e-commerce and data economy in the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition. Before that, he was Head of the Digital Single Market Task Force responsible for the e-commerce sector inquiry.
He holds a law degree and a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has graduated with a Master's degree in European Community Law from the College of Europe (Bruges).
Previously Mr Kramler was deputy head of the unit responsible for antitrust cases in the information industries, internet and consumer electronics sectors.
Before joining the European Commission Mr Kramler worked as agent representing the Austrian government before the European Courts in Luxemburg.

Alexandre Fall is a Senior Legal Counsel for the European Broadcasting Union where he leads the Competition Policy and Platform Regulation workstreams. Prior to joining the EBU, Mr Fall was a Lawyer in the Competition Department of Allen & Overy LLP.
What are the substantive obligations? What do they mean and how should they be interpreted? What will success look like for DMA? How will regulators stop big tech from exploiting enforcement loopholes? Implications for compliance