Competition lawyers

K Korhan Yıldırım

Partner

ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law

Kailun Ji

Counsel

Ashurst ADTLaw

Kamen Gogov

Senior Associate

Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov

Karel De Smet

Local Partner

NautaDutilh

Karen Abraham

Partner since 2001

Shearn Delamore & Co

Karin Roberts

Advokat/Partner

MAQS Advokatbyrå

Karine Chênevert, Ad. E.

Partner

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Karolina Stawicka

Karolina is a Partner and head of the Employment team in Bird & Bird's Warsaw office.

Bird & Bird Koremba, Dziedzic i Wspólnicy sp.k.

Karolis Kačerauskas

Dr Karolis Kačerauskas is a partner with extensive experience in complex legal projects in state aid, competition, public procurement and public-private partnership areas. Karolis continuously provides consultations to clients of different profiles and sectors. His expertise in public procurement matters is valued by both contracting authorities and suppliers involved in public procurement. Among his professional strengths are expeditious coordination of complicated transactions and disputes, understanding of clients’ complex business operations and business needs, and presentation of complex issues in a simple way. Karolis demonstrates excellent communication and negotiation skills in dealing with international and local companies and Lithuanian authorities.

Ellex Valiunas

Katalin Szamosi

President and managing partner

SBGK

Kateřina Winterling Vorlíčková

Kateřina Winterling Vorlíčková is a Partner at BBH focusing on civil, business and competition law.

BBH, advokátní kancelár, s.r.o.

Katharine O'Connor

Katharine (Kate) O’Connor focuses her practice on complex antitrust litigation, antitrust investigations brought by the US antitrust regulators and state attorneys general, and counseling clients on antitrust compliance questions. Kate also regularly represents clients before the antitrust regulators related to mergers and acquisitions. Kate has experience representing clients in a wide array of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, food and finance. Kate is a member of the firm’s antitrust and competition practice, which Global Competition Review has designated a “Global Elite” and “Illinois Elite” practice. She has been recognized by Global Competition Review, Benchmark Litigation, Legal 500 US and Super Lawyers as excelling in the field of antitrust. Kate has tried cases before juries, judges and arbitration panels, presented evidentiary hearings in federal and administrative courts and argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, federal district courts and state courts. She is a member of the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar. While in law school, Kate was the managing articles editor of the University of Illinois Law Review and a legal extern to Magistrate Judge David G. Bernthal of the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Katherine Rocco

Katherine (Kate) Rocco is the Co-Chair of Latham’s New York Litigation & Trial Department and is a partner in the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice. Kate is a nationally recognized leader in the antitrust bar who regularly leads clients through their most complex antitrust matters, including by securing clearances from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for high-stakes mergers, and defending companies in a wide range of antitrust litigations, investigations, and criminal cartel matters. In her practice spanning nearly two decades, Kate has advised private and public companies on more than US$200 billion worth of transactions and hundreds of individual matters. She has litigated multiple matters through trial and appeal and appeared before numerous agencies including the European Commission. Kate’s broad industry experience encompasses semiconductors, consumer products, life sciences, sports, entertainment, social media, healthcare, financial services, agriculture, and technology. Kate currently serves on the board of the Legal Aid Society and has an active pro bono practice. For nearly a decade, Kate served on the Civil Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association, including by serving as an independent legal observer at the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals in Cuba in 2012 and 2014, and by preparing amicus briefs for the Supreme Court of the United States on issues like warrantless wiretapping. During law school, Kate was an editor for the Fordham Law Review and interned for Judge Shira A. Scheindlin (SDNY). She was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2005 (Malaysia) and served as an intern at The White House in 2002.

Latham & Watkins

Kathy O\'Neill

Kathy O’Neill is a partner in Fried Frank’s Antitrust and Competition Department. Kathy focuses on clearance of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as investigations and litigation under federal and state antitrust laws, and antitrust compliance counseling and training. Kathy previously served nearly 16 years in the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Antitrust Division. While at DOJ, Kathy served as the senior-most career official overseeing all civil antitrust enforcement. She previously served as chief of the Antitrust Division’s Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section, and as a trial attorney in the Telecommunications and Media Section. During her tenure, Kathy played a leading role in advancing numerous high stakes antitrust investigations and litigations across a wide range of industries including agriculture, airlines and aerospace, banking, communications, energy, media and entertainment and technology, among many others. Her more than 20 years of government experience also includes roles as assistant attorney general for the New York Attorney General’s Office and as an attorney advisor at the Federal Communications Commission.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Katie Phillips

I’m an employment law and local business specialist in our Jersey Litigation practice. I advise on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment and discrimination law matters, including contracts of employment, employment arrangements, corporate M&A, HR support, highvalue and complex dismissals, and restructurings and tribunal claims. I regularly advise on general commercial litigation including enforcement, dégrèvement and real estate matters as well as focusing on advising clients on the relocation of businesses and the establishment of new businesses in the island, business and employment licences, immigration advice and work permits. I also have further experience in advising on competition law and data protection matters. In addition, I regularly contribute articles to publications and provide training to clients on employment issues and legal developments.

Mourant

Katrien Veranneman

Partner

Elvinger Hoss Prussen

Kayra Üçer

Mr. Üçer is a partner in the M&A and Corporate Support, Competition, Compliance, and Data Protection practice groups of Hergüner Bilgen Özeke. He most frequently represents foreign clients entering or exiting the Turkish market and local subsidiaries of foreign multinationals. His practice focuses primarily on share transfers occurring in regulated markets, capital markets, and wealth management. In addition to his transactional work, Mr. Üçer provides advice in the fields of executive-level labor law, compliance with the data protection regulations, and anti-corruption compliance concerns.

Hergüner Bilgen Üçer Attorney Partnership

Kağan Uçar

Counsel

ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law

Kenneth Svartström

Councel, Head of Practice

Lexia Attorneys Ltd

Kerry Gwyther

Partner

TLT

Kevin Arquit

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Kevin Gerretz

Counsel, Head of Financial Regulatory

Ellex Raidla

Kevin Rihtar

Partner (Attorney at Law at Ketler & Partners, member of Karanovic)

Ketler & Partners, member of Karanovic

Kiran Desai

Kiran is a Partner and Head of Brussels office with extensive experience advising on competition law, both UK and EU, as well as EU compliance law generally. He has worked on matters covering many sectors and in the past few years has been particularly active in relation to the TDT sectors and technology aspects of other sectors, such as automotive. In recent years he has focused on competition and EU regulatory law issues concerning local markets mergers, technology and data. He has advised clients in relation to the UK/EU interface as a result of Brexit and in relation to broader UK trade law matters, including sanctions advice. Kiran is a member of the firm's India Business Group and regularly advises Indian corporations. Kiran is qualified to practice in England & Wales as well as Brussels, the latter allowing his advice to benefit from legal privilege when advising clients on sensitive EU competition law issues. Kiran is a recognised author and speaker on competition law, in particular the technology sector. He is the standing contributor to the UK competition chapter of Competition & Regulatory Law Review, published by Lexxion. He also writes regularly on topical subjects, typically with a business angle rather than a purely descriptive account of the legal development. Examples of Kiran’s experience include: advice to a client subject to a cartel allegation by the UK's FCA that was using its concurrent competition powers in an esoteric activity in the financial sector. advice to a client subject to the double cartel investigation by the UK and EU competition authorities into the the recycling of cars and vans. multi-jurisdictional merger control advice for an Indian HQ'd client in relation to the acquisition of a Scandinavian based target business, advice and support for client in relation to a voluntary NSI Act application that was subject to an in-depth investigation, production of a report for a leading Chinese technology producer proposing a methodology to examine the government effects of removing its products from the market as regards competition law and cybersecurity law, a second phase merger investigation with divestments in Germany for a leading European cinema exhibitor, a study in relation to tobacco price rules for a global tobacco company, litigation before the European Court of Justice on behalf of the several leading UK companies appealing the European Commission’s CFC State aid decision, a study for the European Commission, where he was the lawyer addressing the competition and regulatory aspects, including liability and insurance of changes to the structure of air transport navigation, in particular the data aspects of such changes, competition compliance and strategic advice for an ad hoc group of suppliers concerning certain downstream issues, sanctions advice to a sports business in relation to its broadcasting agreement with a national broadcaster, advice to a sport association about a possible competition complaint to the European Commission re the conduct of a sport organising body. Examples of Kiran’s articles include: The CMA's report into AI foundation models, European Competition and Regulatory Review, Volume 7 (2024), Issue 4 Competition, Big Tech and Retail Financial Services - A Regulator's Discussion Paper, European Competition and Regulatory Review, Volume 6(2023), Issue 1 Follow-on Damages Actions: An Example of When They Might Not Occur?, European Competition and Regulatory Review, Volume 6 (2022), Issue 4 National Security and Investment Act 2021: Eight Months Review, European Competition and Regulatory Review, Volume 6 (2022), Issue 3 Facebook / GIPHY merger - The end of BigTech's spending spree? European Competition and Regulatory Review, Volume 6 (2022), Issue 1 Changing Competition Law for the Digital Sector, European Competition and Regulatory Review, 1/2021 (Vol. 5) https://core.lexxion.eu/article/CORE/2021/1/0 UK State Aid Rules Post-Brexit, European State Aid Law Quarterly, (2020, No.4). The UK Competition and Markets Authority’s report, Online platforms and digital advertising, in context, European Competition and Regulatory Review, 3/2020 (Vol. 4) https://core.lexxion.eu/article/CORE/2020/3/9 Antitrust M&A: 4 to 3 mergers might be back on the strategic table, EY Law, June 2020 The sharing economy: legal fragmentation might lead to harmonization of the law, EY Law, June 2020 EU State Aid – An overlooked element of transaction strategy, EY Law, May 2020 COVID-19: State Aid as Part of Your Financial Solution – The Questions to Ask, EY Law, May 2020 EU Competition Rules: Covid-19 Crisis Response EY Law, April 2020 Chemicals Industry: Competition Rules and State aid: Key Developments, EY Law, March 2020 A Major Strategy Initiative – EU Data – Competition & Industrial Policy, EY Law, February 2020 Data ownership and monetization are core issues of a recent competition complaint, EY Law, September 2019 Examples of Kiran’s speaking engagements include: 2023 August 8, Competition and employment laws overlap, podcast 2023 April 28, ESG practical points for business, episode 1, Five actions for the coming months, podcast 2022 November 22, UK-India commerce: Competition and bilateral investment, podcast with Khaitan & Co 2022 November 1, NSI Act - nine months review, Shoosmiths webinar with DRD Partners 2020 October 9, Forum Europe, Cyber-Security Salons, Global Outlook 2020 May 2, EY Forensics and Vaish Associates Advocates, Competition in India and Abroad 2019 September 20-21, Prague EU Law Days, Competition Law and the 4th Industrial Revolution 2019 June 17, EY Law, M&A client seminar, Competition Law 2019 May 23, EY global M&A partners meeting, London, EU & Competition Law Hot Topics for M&A lawyers 2018 IBC Advanced EU Competition Law, Brussels, Blockchain: Competition Law Challenges 2018 September 25, EY global webcast, Navigating tomorrow’s automotive industry legal challenges 2018 July, EY global tax conference, New York, Legal Aspects of Brexit 2018 June 7-8, Prague EU Law Days, Competition Law and Innovation 2018 February 14, EY global webcast, Navigating routes to market in an era of change

Shoosmiths LLP