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Håkon Cosma Størdal

Partner Håkon Cosma Størdal advises on EU/EEA law and is a specialist in competition law. He also handles questions related to public and administrative law. From his period as legal director with the Norwegian Competition Authority, Størdal has gained significant experience in handling complex competition cases. He has also been a national expert with the EFTA surveillance authority in Brussels, working with state aid and competition cases.

Wiersholm

CompetitionEU / EEA+2
Norway
IT

IDIL TASKIN

İdil Aşkın is an Associate at Şengün & Partners Attorney Partnership, where she advises international and local corporate clients both on routine and complex legal transactions. She provides legal consultancy on investments, trade activities and critical contracts of client companies meanwhile ensuring compliance of their activities with relevant regulations, including but not limited to competition law and data protection. In addition to ensuring compliance with Turkish legislation and safeguarding the rights and interests of client companies within this framework, in line with her with particular focus on legal matters related to international trade and investments, she closely follows global legal developments related to her areas of expertise. At present, a significant portion of her practice is concentrated on corporate law, contracts law, and competition law. She also conducts research and prepares informative documents as part of her work within Şengün & Partners Competition Law Institute. İdil Aşkın also has a keen interest in working with international corporate groups across various sectors, including capital markets, banking and finance, fintech, as well as media, technology and e-commerce. Moreover, she is interested in public procurement, including international tenders, and she is actively involved in related projects.

Sengün & Partners Attorney Partnership

Corporate / M&AContracts+6
TurkeyTurkish, English +1
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Iain Campbell

A partner in our commercial litigation team, Iain has lengthy experience of both dispute resolution and regulatory defence work for clients in many sectors, including financial services, retail and higher education. His litigation experience ranges from commercial disputes to emergency injunctions and crisis management. Iain's specialisms include competition law, restraint of trade and financial regulation. He lectures for CPD providers on technical topics such as legal professional privilege, and is also a mediator, being a member of the national panel of The Mediator Network. As a student, Iain won the Observer Mace debating tournament and subsequently graduated in law from Manchester University.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Commercial LitigationRegulatory+4
England
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Ian John

Ian John is an antitrust and competition partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He advises clients and represents them before the antitrust enforcement authorities on matters relating to mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, including complex cross-border transactions. He has represented clients from a diverse range of industries, including aerospace, beef processing, beer, building material, chemicals, computer hardware and software, consumer goods, defense, fertilizer, financial products, food and beverage, hospitality, insurance, life sciences, managed care, media and telecommunications, natural gas and oil exploration and transportation, retail, satellites, semiconductors, skilled nursing facilities, and transportation. Ian John is noted by clients as “particularly good at conveying legal risks in a way that is digestible and as acceptable as possible to the business side.” Ian has appeared before the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Defense, state antitrust authorities, the Canadian Bureau of Competition and the European Commission, representing a number of major corporations in connection with antitrust investigations of merger and acquisition transactions, both consensual and contested. Ian also has experience in litigated matters, such as participating in the representation of Anheuser-Busch InBev and Express Scripts in separate merger-related litigation matters, and advising four universities, each of which was then a member of the Big East Conference, in connection with the move of several schools to the Atlantic Coast Conference. In addition, Ian advises clients on other antitrust matters, including issues related to trade associations, product distribution and pricing. He also works with clients to design and implement antitrust compliance programs. Ian is a member of the board of directors at Row New York. Through the discipline of rowing and rigorous academic support, Row New York transforms the lives of underserved, mostly middle and high school aged, New Yorkers, regardless of background or ability.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

AntitrustCompetition+1
United States
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Ian R. Conner

Ian Conner — former Director of the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Competition and Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice — advises leading multinational companies and private equity firms on complex antitrust and competition matters. Ian draws on two decades of experience, as both a high-ranking enforcer and an elite private practitioner, to guide clients through their most nuanced matters, with a particular focus on: Merger control Government investigations Class actions Third-party representation before antitrust agencies He leverages his comprehensive understanding of agency operations, acute business sense, and thorough knowledge of case law to develop innovative legal strategies that help clients achieve success in their highest-stakes matters. Ian led a staff of nearly 300 at the FTC’s Bureau of Competition through the most active enforcement year since 2000. He oversaw the creation of the agency’s Technology Enforcement Division and the release of the 2020 iteration of the vertical merger guidelines with the DOJ, as well as initiated a proposed rulemaking and re-examination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. As a testament to Ian's leadership as Director, the Bureau of Competition ranked 3rd out of 411 agency components in the annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government survey. Ian began his career as a Trial Attorney in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, which he joined through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. He also served as a Special Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he first-chaired trials in federal court. A recognized industry leader, he has held various leadership positions within the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, including as Co-Chair of the Fall Forum (2023–present), Vice Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee (2017–2019), Vice Chair of the Civil Practice and Procedure Committee (2014–2017), and Founder and Co-Chair (2010–2012) and Chair (2012–2014) of the Agriculture and Food Committee.

Latham & Watkins

AntitrustCompetition+3
United States
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Iana Said

Associate

Camilleri Preziosi

Public ProcurementCompetition+6
Malta
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Ieva Andersone

Country Managing Partner, head of the firm’s Competition and Regulatory practice in Latvia

Sorainen

CompetitionRegulatory+3
LatviaLatvian, English +1
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Ignacio Mora

Associate

Marval O’Farrell Mairal

CompetitionAntitrust+1
Argentina
IB

Igor Bakowski

Partner in the Firm. He has a long track record in assisting companies and investment funds in the real estate investment and development process, negotiation of complex lease agreements, financing and optimization of real estate projects, reprivatisation of real estate, acquisition and sale of real estate projects including commercial centers, office buildings, warehouses and production plants. He also has extensive experience in advising on company law and corporate structures, creation and operations of investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, competition law and foreign direct investment.

Bakowski Law Firm

Real EstateCorporate / M&A+5
PolandPolish, English +2
IB

Igor Bakowski

Partner in the Firm. He has a long track record in assisting companies and investment funds in the real estate investment and development process, negotiation of complex lease agreements, financing and optimization of real estate projects, reprivatisation of real estate, acquisition and sale of real estate projects including commercial centers, office buildings, warehouses and production plants. He also has extensive experience in advising on company law and corporate structures, creation and operations of investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, competition law and foreign direct investment.

Banasik Wozniak i Wspólnicy Kancelaria Radców Prawnych Sp. P

Real EstateCapital Markets+4
PolandPolish, English +2
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Igor Lukin

Igor Lukin is a Partner, Head of Corporate, Competition practices and Co-head of Labour practice of GRATA. Igor has more than 9 years’ experience in advising on arranging and closing M&A transactions, creating business ventures, corporate governance, competition issues and labour disputes. Prior to joining GRATA Igor worked for such major law firms as Dentons and Sayat Zholshy and Partners. Igor is a last year PhD candidate conducting his research in the field of corporate law. In 2015, he worked for Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany as a visiting researcher.

GRATA International

Corporate / M&ACompetition+1
Kazakhstan
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Iida Kangaspeska

Associate Iida Kangaspeska advises our clients on M&A as well as on corporate, contract and competition law related matters. Iida joined Procopé & Hornborg as a Senior Trainee in 2021 and was appointed as an Associate upon her graduation in 2022. Further, Iida has gained experience from an international consulting firm, Finnish business law firm and various other firms where she worked during her studies.

Procopé & Hornborg

Corporate / M&ACommercial Contracts+2
FinlandFinnish, English
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Ilinca Ștefănescu

Partner

Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii

LitigationInternational Arbitration+6
RomaniaRomanian, English +1
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Ilona Karppinen

Partner

Castrén & Snellman

Dispute ResolutionArbitration+4
FinlandFinnish, English +2
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Ina Lunneryd

Partner

Linklaters

AntitrustCompetition+4
Belgium
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Ioana Racoti

Senior Partner and Founder

Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners

Banking & FinanceCompetition+4
RomaniaRomanian, English
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Iordan Tchompalov

Partner

Stoeva, Tchompalov & Partners

Capital MarketsBanking & Finance+5
BulgariaBulgarian, English +1
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Irene De Beni

Irene is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Brussels office who represents clients in significant antitrust matters in a variety of industries, including the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, retail, and financial services industries. Fluent in Italian, English, and French, she represents clients before the European Commission as well as national competition authorities of the European Union (EU) Member States. She has coordinated competition merger filings around the world involving the Brazilian, Chinese, South African, and Ukrainian authorities, among others. For more information, view Ms. De Beni's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/idebeni.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

AntitrustCompetition
BelgiumItalian, English +1
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Irina Vasile

Irina is a Partner at Lexters. She heads the Intellectual Property and Franchise practice and is also co-head of the firm’s Corporate/M&A and data privacy work, advising founders, executives and investors on high-stakes growth decisions. With almost 20 years of experience as a business lawyer, Irina supports businesses across a wide range of industries — from consumer brands to technology — helping them protect innovation, expand through franchising, and execute complex cross-border transactions. Her work spans trademark and copyright protection, enforcement and licensing, as well as multi-jurisdictional franchise structures and M&A projects, from due diligence and structuring to negotiation and implementation. She is also a strategic advisor in business-critical disputes, including complex litigation related to franchising, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, unfair competition, shareholder disputes and other technology-related claims. Clients value Irina’s pragmatic, business-oriented mindset — focused on solutions, not just risks. For Legal 500, clients described her as: “Irina Vasile - A corporate dynamo with an eye for mergers and acquisitions. When the stakes are high, Irina is the compass you need.” Other client also notes: “Irina Vasile and Alexandru Stanescu are fantastic specialists in their fields of expertise.”

Lexters

Intellectual PropertyFranchise+4
RomaniaEnglish, German +2
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Isabel Taylor

Partner; Isabel has a competition and regulatory practice and advises across a range of industries, including regulated industries, on merger control, general competition law, sectoral regulatory requirements, and public procurement. She has a particular expertise in State aid law.

Slaughter and May

CompetitionRegulatory+4
England
IU

Isabela Uribe

Associate

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría

CompetitionTechnology, Media & Telecommunications+4
ColombiaSpanish, English +1
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Isabelle Innerhofer

Counsel, specialised in competition, state aid law, public procurement law, european law, commercial law.

Binder Grösswang

CompetitionState Aid+3
AustriaGerman, English +1
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Iulian Pasatii

Partner, team head in real estate, construction, ICT/TMT, and data protection practice areas

Gladei & Partners

Real EstateConstruction+6
MoldovaRomanian, English +1
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Iva Georgieva

Managing Associate

Komarevski Dimitrov & Partners, Attorneys-at-Law

Corporate / M&ACompetition+4
BulgariaBulgarian, English