Litigation

Biogen's alleged anticompetitive agreement
Sabrina advised Biogen in connection with an alleged anticompetitive agreement aimed to postpone the entrance into the market of an important drug.

Unilever's preliminary ruling proceedings
Sabrina advised Unilever in connection with preliminary ruling proceedings before the European Court of Justice.*

Amazon's preliminary ruling proceeding 
Sabrina advised Amazon in connection with a preliminary ruling proceeding before the European Court of Justice.*

Airbnb's preliminary ruling proceedings 
Sabrina advised Airbnb before the Italian administrative courts and in connection with preliminary ruling proceedings before the European Court of Justice.*

GE Healthcare and GE Corp's abuse of dominance case 
Sabrina advised GE Healthcare and GE Corp in connection with an abuse of dominance case for alleged violation of art. 101 of the TFEU in the market for the provision of maintenance services for diagnostic imaging equipment before the Italian Competition Authority. The case involved issues concerning the relation between IP protection stemming from patent and competition law.*

GE Healthcare's alleged violation of art. 102 of the TFEU
Sabrina advised GE Healthcare in connection with a case for alleged violation of art. 102 of the TFEU in the market for radio pharma. Other parties involved included Novartis and Curium. The case involved issues concerning the relation between R&D and market sharing.*

Pfizer's alleged violation of art. 102 of the TFUE 
Sabrina advised Pfizer in connection with an abuse of dominance case for alleged violation of art. 102 of the TFUE in the market of pharmaceutical products in relation to patent exploitation issues.*

Merger Control

EU merger control aspects of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena's acquisition of Mediobanca
Sabrina advised Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in connection with the EU merger control aspects of its acquisition of approximately 86.3 percent of Mediobanca's share capital, for a total consideration exceeding €16,5 billion in cash and shares.

EU merger control aspects of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance's acquisition of Sparkle
Sabrina advised the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and Boost BidCo, a corporate vehicle controlled by MEF and participated by Retelit, in connection with the EU merger control aspects of its acquisition of Sparkle from TIM.

EU merger control aspects of BNP Paribas' acquisition of BCC Vita 
Sabrina advised BNP Paribas in connection with the EU merger control aspects of its acquisition of BCC Vita S.p.A.*

EU merger control aspects of IBM Corp.'s acquisition of Red Hat Inc.
Sabrina advised IBM Corp. in connection with the EU merger control aspects of its US$34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Inc., an enterprise software provider that builds technologies on open source platforms such as Linux and Kubernetes.*

EU merger control aspects of GE's acquisition of Alstom's power business
Sabrina advised Alstom in connection with GE's €12.4 billion acquisition of Alstom's power business on the EU merger control and foreign investment clearances obtained in over 30 jurisdictions.*

EU merger control aspects of SABMiller's acquisition of Anheuser-Busch InBev NV
Sabrina advised SABMiller in connection with the EU merger control aspects of its acquisition of Anheuser-Busch InBev NV for US$104 billion.*

* Sabrina worked on these matters prior to joining White & Case.