Competition lawyers

Roxana Guidero

Wilkinson Stekloff

Roxana Ionescu

Partner

RTPR | Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA

Rukshad Davar

Partner and Head of M&A Practice Group

Majmudar & Partners

Rune Nordengen

Rune Nordengen assists with commercial law issues, particularly relating to marketing and intellectual property law, competition law, procurement, privacy, and employment law. Rune has extensive experience with helping with well-known international brands and pharmaceutical companies with intellectual property and market law issues, as well as with general legal advice. He regularly advises government agencies, municipalities and suppliers with procurement issues. Within state aid issues and competition law, he assist clients in Norway and in EEA countries. Rune has extensive litigation experience from the District Court, The Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court. He has litigated several cases concerning public procurement, intellectual property law, contract law, and employment law. Rune is solution-oriented, and he has a commercial and strategic understanding that is reflected in his legal advice. Rune is part of Bull's crisis management team for Cyber Incidents and Emergency Preparedness.

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Russell Cohen

Partner

Dechert

Rutger Ploum

Attorney at law, partner

Ploum

Rym Ferchiou

Rym is a Partner at Ferchiou & Associés law firm. She started as a junior associate in 2015 after being admitted to Tunis bar.

Ferchiou & associés

SERHII DERKACH

Partner Serhii Derkach specializes in corporate law and M&A, competition law, and dispute resolution. With 18 years of legal experience, including 6 years as an attorney, Sergiy handles a diverse range of cases, including: Providing legal support for investment attraction; Developing corporate structures and establishing consortiums; Obtaining preliminary conclusions and permits from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (including in the process of small-scale privatization of state-owned enterprises “Ukrspirt” and a single property complex grain mills); Establishing a joint venture with the participation of a foreign investor to build waste recycling plants in the Kyiv region (the project is implemented within the framework of international programs and the Ministry of Environment strategy); Conducting antimonopoly investigations and representing clients’ interests during proceedings on violations of competition law; Providing ongoing support for numerous corporate projects of one of the most famous Ukrainian breweries – “Opillya” and one of the market leaders in electronic auctions in Ukraine, UBIZ.UA; Supporting the sale of a controlling stake in PJSC “Tourist Complex “Cheremosh”; Reorganizing financial companies and coordinating significant participation acquisitions, bringing their activities in line with NBU licensing requirements; Apealing contesting auctions for the sale of special permits for subsoil use and other public procurement.

Ario Law Firm

Sabine Mahringer

Cooperation Partner, Attorney-at-Law Specialized in: Trademark and competition law, design protection Extrajudicial settlement Conduct of cases Compensation and warranty law Contract law Trademark monitoring

Anwälte Burger und Partner Rechtsanwalt Gmbh (ABP)

Sachin Nair

Associate

Lim Chee Wee Partnership

Samantha Sinden

Director

Werksmans Attorneys

Sami H. Rashid

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Sami Hartikainen

Counsel

Waselius

Samuel G. Williamson

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Sara Iglesias

Lawyer specialized in civil and commercial litigation as well as bankruptcy law. He has advised clients, both businessmen and individuals, national and international, and has directed their defense before the Courts of Justice and Arbitration, especially in litigation relating to the termination and/or interpretation of civil and commercial contracts, bankruptcy proceedings both in the legal defense of the insolvent party, creditor or from the position of insolvency administrator, banking advice, corporate conflicts, directors’ liability, unfair competition, execution of works, etc. He has recognized experience in providing legal advice to companies in crisis and has participated in several bankruptcy proceedings in Catalonia and in several processes for the purchase of production units of companies in bankruptcy.

Augusta Abogados

Sara Pomar

Partner

Nomos

Sara Recatalá Chordá

Founding partner

MA Abogados

Sarah Drukarch

Sarah Drukarch is a partner and member of Pestalozzi’s IP & TMT, Life Sciences, as well as Corporate/M&A practice groups in Zurich. She specializes in intellectual property, with a particular focus on life sciences, and also frequently advises clients on matters of unfair competition, data protection, food and healthcare as well as IT and media law. Sarah's expertise has been recognized by her continued inclusion as Rising Star for Switzerland by IP Stars since 2020. Sarah Drukarch advises and represents domestic and foreign corporations in the life sciences sector as well as in a broad range of other industries, including foodstuffs, consumer goods, media, ICT, and automotive, with establishing and maintaining intellectual property rights and related licensing and transfer matters. Her broad IP experience covers both national and cross-border M&A transactions as well as contentious matters. In the field of life sciences, Sarah Drukarch is regularly involved in the negotiations for international research and development projects, covering all ranges and aspects of pre-clinical, clinical, and post-marketing set-ups. She advises manufacturers and service providers of regulated products comprehensively, for example in connection with supply chain and distribution arrangements for pharmaceutical products and medical devices, marketing authorizations, industry-specific permits, know-how protection, marketing, compliance and vigilance, sponsoring, compensation, rights in data, as well as other complex contract negotiations. In addition, Sarah handles disputes in the life sciences industry and represents clients in international arbitration proceedings, before domestic state courts, and administrative authorities.

Pestalozzi

Sarah Ward

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Sarunas Keserauskas

Dr. Šarūnas Keserauskas is partner at Competition and State Aid Practice. Before joining the partners’ team at Ellex, Dr. Šarūnas Keserauskas served as Chairman of the Competition Council of the Republic of Lithuania for two consecutive terms (2011-2023). Prior to that, he gained legal advisor experience at ‘Ellex’ from 1998 to 2009 and then worked as senior legal advisor at the UK Office of Fair Trading. Dr. Šarūnas Keserauskas is widely recognized as one of the Baltic states’ most respected competition law professionals. He was awarded the Cross of the Knight of the Order ‘For Merits to Lithuania’. President Dalia Grybauskaitė presented him with the Order as an overall recognition of the work and efforts of the Competition Council team. During his tenure, the Competition Council was of the most professional institutions in the world. While leading the Competition Council, Šarūnas also served as the leader of several EU technical support projects in Georgia, Ukraine, and Egypt. Dr. Keserauskas has been teaching competition law for more than 20 years, starting at the Riga Graduate School of Law (2000-2005) and, since 2005, at Vilnius University, where he currently holds the position of partnership professor.

Ellex Valiunas

Scott Hammond

Scott Hammond is a member of the firm's Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of companies subject to investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division as well as experience appearing before more than two dozen competition authorities in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Scott serves as global coordinating counsel in foreign domestic as well as cross border government investigations running in parallel with US DOJ investigations.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Sebastian Asbjørn Pedersen

Sebastian is associate partner and attorney in our EU, Procurement, and Competition Law team, specializing in procurement law, EU law, and competition law. Sebastian advises both private and public organizations on matters related to procurement processes. He assists public contracting authorities in assessing procurement obligations and strategies, as well as in the preparation of tender documents and execution of procurement processes from the beginning and all the way through the process. He also advises private suppliers on the preparation of tenders during procurement procedures and provides guidance on contract-related questions throughout the contract period. Additionally, Sebastian has extensive experience representing clients before the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the courts, and in arbitration proceedings. In the area of competition law, his expertise includes pricing policies for dominant companies, merger control, cartel cases, and distribution agreements. Sebastian has solid experience in intellectual property rights. He regularly assists clients with trademark registration and opposition proceedings before the Danish Patent and Trademark Office and the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). As a client of Sebastian, you will have a dedicated and highly competent attorney by your side who values high-quality work and integrity. He always delivers in due time and strives to build trust and develop a deep understanding of your business.

Lund Elmer Sandager

Sebastián Páez

Associate

Bustamante Fabara

Sebastián Saá

Partner

Spingarn