Competition lawyers

Espen Bakken

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Esther Sternbach

Of Counsel

Herzog Fox & Neeman

Eugenia Gambarara

Senior Associate

Hogan Lovells International LLP

Eva Cole

Winston Taylor

Evan Boyle

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Eve Mulconry

Eve has over 28 years’ experience practising Litigation in Arthur Cox, specialising in large-scale commercial litigation across a range of areas including banking, financial services, and shareholder disputes. Eve has a very significant recoveries practice and has advised on some of the most high profile debt recovery and enforcement cases in the Commercial Court. Her expertise includes obtaining and defending interlocutory applications, obtaining European Enforcement Orders and Anton Piller Orders. Eve has very considerable experience in rating matters and acted in applications concerning rates before the Valuation Tribunal, High Court, and Supreme Court. Eve’s clients include financial institutions, State bodies, and regulated entities. Eve also has extensive experience in judicial review and in competition and regulatory matters.

Arthur Cox LLP

Evelina Marchesoni

Senior Associate

Bird & Bird

Evrim KAŞLIOĞLU

Founding Lawyer

Kaslioglu Law Firm

Evyatar Azulay

Partner

S. Horowitz & Co

Eyvindur Sólnes

Attorney, MBA - Partner

Lex Law Offices

Fabiola Medina Garnes

Founding Partner

Medina Garnes Abogados

Fang-Yi Jen

Partner

Baker McKenzie

Faustine Viala

Faustine Viala is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. Faustine has experience in European and French competition law. Her main areas of practice encompass merger control, anticompetitive practices (anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominant position) and distribution law. Faustine advises French and international companies mainly active in the fields of media, sports, chemical industry, aeronautic, cosmetics and telecoms, focusing both on counseling and litigation.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Faye Karam

Trainee Associate

ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners

Ferdinand Graf

Partner. Ferdinand Graf advises domestic and foreign companies on ongoing corporate law issues as well as on cross-border M&A transactions and restructurings, most recently for LUKOIL and the Danish VKR Group. In his areas of expertise, Ferdinand is also active as a litigator. He represented the French/Belgian Dexia Group against the Republic of Austria in the course of the emergency nationalisation of Kommunalkredit and the province of Salzburg in dealing with the financial shenanigans of a civil servant wasting public money on speculative trading activities.

GRAF ISOLA

Fernand de Visscher

Fernand de Visscher (Of Counsel) is a specialist in intellectual property. He notably handles questions relating to patents and to the protection of designs and artistic and literary works. Fernand’s experience also includes media law, distribution (dealerships, franchises, etc.), computer science, the internet, domain names, including contract law and competition issues in these fields. He assists Belgian and international enterprises in these areas, covering a wide range of structural and contractual operations and disputes requiring resolution via negotiation, mediation or pleadings before Belgian and European courts. He is admitted to the WIPO List of Neutrals as a WIPO Arbitrator, and to the list of third party deciders accredited by the French Bar Association of Brussels in the context of the binding third party decision procedures (more information available here). Fernand is also registered as UPC representative (Unified Patent Court), assisting clients in navigating the increasingly complex European patent landscape as the new court and its case law develop. He is also a member of our Supreme Court team and assists them in matters relating to intellectual property, market practices and competition law. From 2006 until 2022, he was appointed by the FPS Economy for his legal expertise for serving as president of the Industrial Property section of the Council for Intellectual Property. The main mission of the Council is to provide the Minister responsible for intellectual property with advice on any matter relating to intellectual property, in particular in the law-making process. Fernand de Visscher is a former lecturer in design law at the Centre for International Studies in Intellectual Property (CEIPI, Strasbourg) and was visiting lecturer in IP contract law at UCLouvain from 2007 to 2017. He is ranked as a Senior Statesperson in Intellectual Property by Chambers & Partners, in the Silver Band in Patents by iAM Patent and recognised as a Patent Star by IP Stars. He is Recommended in Patents by Who’s Who Legal (Global Leaders Guide). Fernand is the author and co-author of a number of publications in these areas of practice, including Précis du droit d’auteur et des droits voisins (2000) and La saisie-description et sa réforme (2010). He is a member of the editorial board of Revue de Droit Intellectuel l’Ingénieur-Conseil and of Journal des Tribunaux. Fernand de Visscher is also a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) (and former president of its Belgian group; member of honour, 2022) and of the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI), the Benelux Association of Trade Mark and Design Law (BMM), the Licensing Executives’ Society (LES) and the European Patent Lawyers’ Association (EPLAW), of which he was a co-founder and the first secretary as a board member from 2000 to 2005.

Simont Braun

Fernando Tallón

Partner.

Ramón y Cajal Abogados

Fiona Wilson

Fiona is Of Cousel, based in Jersey. Fiona specialises in providing advice to businesses on regulatory compliance including money laundering and terrorist financing issues, and competition law and data protection matters, as well as Jersey financial services regulation and regulatory investigations and enforcement matters. She also provides advice on general corporate and commercial matters and mergers and acquisitions. Fiona has broad experience in relation to all aspects of regulated financial services businesses, includig providing advice in relation to: regulatory investigations remediation programmes AML/CFT matters data protection; and anti-bribery and corruption matters Fiona also assists with applications for licences, advising on corporate governance matters and assisting with acquisitions and due diligence. She has also advised on sales and purchases of regulated and trading businesses, competition, regulatory applications and employment issues, and shareholder arrangements and restructurings of regulated and trading business groups. Fiona has collaborated with our private client and trusts team to help clients put into place managed trust company arrangements, and private trust company structures, outsourcing arrangements and processes for transferring books of business. She has also advised on making notifications and obtaining consents in relation to suspicious activity reports, sanctions licences and advice as well as assisting with internal investigations in relation to fraud, suspicious transactions and anti-bribery and corruption. Fiona's previous experience as in-house counsel, as a director of a financial services business and as a company secretary of a listed company helps her give advice that is practically focused.

Collas Crill

Fjölnir Ólafsson

Attorney - Senior Associate

Lex Law Offices

Florencia Cereceda

Florencia is an associate and part of the Dispute Resolution group at A/C/R.

A/C/R Legal

Florent Vever

Partner

Tactics

Florian Bosser

Partner in BDGS Associés’ Competition and Regulatory practice. Florian Bosser advises French and foreign companies across all areas of French and EU competition law, in particular in the fields of State aid and merger control. He also handles complex regulatory matters, notably in the following sectors: transport, banking, energy, and media and assists his clients with foreign direct investment (FDI) control procedures, in France and in other jurisdictions. He has recently advised L’Oréal on the acquisition of Kering Beauté; the ADIT Group on the reorganization of its shareholding structure allowing the entry of new financial investors; and several investment funds and international clients on FDI matters in connection with the acquisition of sensitive targets in France. He has recently been involved in several banking prudential regulation matters, including litigation.

BDGS Associés

Florian Brunner

Attorney-at-Law

Bratschi Ltd

Florian Dessault

Partner advising and representing companies and their senior executives before French commercial and civil courts, as well as before arbitral tribunals. Florian Dessault's practice focuses in particular on complex business litigation (shareholder disputes, post-acquisition litigation, contractual disputes), and he has developed recognised expertise in handling sensitive disputes involving regulatory or competition law issues.

BDGS Associés