Competition / Antitrust lawyers

Julian Maitland-Walker

Maitland Walker LLP

Julian Schimmel

Principal Lawyer

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

Juliana Neves

Partner

Licks Attorneys

Julie Soloway

Julie is Co-Chair of Blakes’ award winning Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Ranked as one of Canada’s Most Influential lawyers, she is on the cutting edge of guiding businesses and investors under the Competition Act and Investment Canada Act, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions. Julie is ranked in all leading directories as one of the top competition lawyers in Canada, and as one of the world’s top 100 Women in her field. Canadian Lawyer Magazine previously named Julie as one of Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers, and in 2023, she was shortlisted for Dealmaker of the Year at the Global Competition Review Awards. Clients value her concise and pragmatic approach, noting she is “very bright, experienced and makes the trickiest regulatory filings easy to understand with her practical and commercially-minded advice.”

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Juraj Gyárfáš

Juraj is a partner in Dentons' Bratislava office. He specializes in M&A, dispute resolution and competition law. He has advised sellers and buyers on numerous high-profile M&A deals in Slovakia and the wider CEE region, as well as on post-M&A disputes and related competition matters. Juraj is the author of the first comprehensive book on M&A in Slovakia and lectures on the topic at the Law School of the Comenius University and at seminars of the Slovak Bar Association. He also published the first commentary on the Slovak Arbitration Act and authored many articles on various topics of Slovak and EU Law. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Committee for the Recodification of Private Law and the Civil Code at the Slovak Ministry of Justice.

Dentons

Jussi Nieminen

Partner

Castrén & Snellman

Justin Balkin

Director

ENSafrica

Ján Grman

Senior Associates / Attorney-at-law

L/R/P advokáti, s.r.o.

Jörg Karenfort

Dr. Jörg Karenfort, LL.M. (LSE), is and ESG Specialist and Global Head of the Competition and Antitrust practice group (Berlin/Brussels). He advises clients in European and German competition and regulatory matters. Jörg has comprehensive expertise in dealing with German and European merger control as well as in cartel and abuse of dominance proceedings before European and national competition authorities and courts. He also advises national and international companies and trade associations in connection with ESG issues and regulatory proceedings both at national and EU level. Jörg is an experienced litigator in complex competition cases and an expert for complex settlement matters. His comprehensive sector expertise covers automotive, banking, energy, TMT as well as life sciences. Jörg is a lecturer on EU and German Competition Law at the University of Potsdam and regularly publishes on EU and national competition and regulatory matters. Jörg is CEO and one of the founders of YUVEDO Foundation—an organization that aims to eliminate Parkinson’s disease from the list of incurable diseases by 2032.

Dentons

Jörg Zehetner

Partner

KWR Karasek Wietrzyk Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Júlia Schledorn de Camargo

Partner

Mello Torres

Kacper Gabryjańczyk

Junior Associate

Schoenherr Halwa Okon Chyb sp.k

Kamil Ciupak

Manager, Attorney-at-law

Olesinski & Wspolnicy

Kanokon Worachanyawong

Partner

Siam Premier International Law Office Limited

Karl Ole Möller

Partner

NORDIA Law

Katalin Grósz

Senior Partner

Szecskay Attorneys at Law

Katarina Rosić

Senior Associate

JPM & Partners

Kate McKenna

Kate is a partner in the Competition and Regulation Group. Prior to joining Matheson, Kate worked at a Magic Circle law firm in London. Kate’s competition practice involves advising clients on merger control, behavioural competition issues (including investigations of alleged collusion and abuse of dominance), State aid, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, Foreign Investment Screening regimes & public procurement competition issues. Kate’s regulatory practice involves advising clients on compliance with telecommunications, broadcasting, digital markets, Life Sciences and postal regulation. Kate frequently advises clients on challenging decisions by sector regulators. Kate has advised on numerous notable regulatory processes and court cases and so clients turn to Kate for expert advice on defending their interests and for practical solutions which achieve their commercial objectives. Kate contributes articles to leading international legal publications and speaks regularly on competition and regulatory law issues.

Matheson LLP

Kate Newman

Kate is a specialist in competition law with over 22 years of experience. She heads up our competition law practice across the firm. Kate's expertise includes advising corporate clients on how to structure their commercial strategies and trading practices to be compliant with competition law; achieving clearances for complex transactions; and steering clients through investigations by the competition authorities.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Kathryn Edghill

Partner

Mills Oakley

Katja Jaakkola

Partner

Avance

Katri Joenpolvi

Partner

Krogerus

Kayla Abrahams

Senior Associate

Bowmans

Ketevan Kvetenadze

Associate

J&T Consulting LLC