Competition / Antitrust lawyers

Elizabeth Gautier

Elizabeth Gautier est associée au sein de l'équipe "Concurrence et commerce international" de Gide à Paris. Elle est spécialisée en droit français et européen de la concurrence (ententes, abus de position dominante et contrôle des concentrations) et réglementations FSR et FDI. Elle intervient pour le compte d'opérateurs nationaux et internationaux, en conseil et en contentieux devant les tribunaux français, l'Autorité de la concurrence, la Commission européenne et leurs juridictions de recours. Elle assiste par ailleurs les entreprises dans le cadre d'opérations de concentrations devant les autorités de concurrence pouvant donner lieu à des engagements et / ou l'ouverture d'une phase d'examen approfondi. Enfin, Elizabeth assiste les opérateurs dans le cadre de leurs obligations de notifications au titre des réglementations FDI et FSR. Elizabeth est récemment intervenue dans de nombreux dossiers antitrust emblématiques face à l'Autorité de la concurrence : les affaires de l'électroménager, de l'équarrissage, du Bisphénol A, des produits d'hygiène et d'entretien, Echange Image Chèque, etc. Elle est par ailleurs intervenue récemment dans plusieurs affaires de recours indemnitaires devant les juridictions civiles et commerciales, notamment dans les secteurs des paris en ligne, des produits d'hygiène et d'entretien, des informations juridiques et économiques sur les entreprises, bancaire, des produits de grande consommation, etc.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Ellie Gavriilidou

Ellie is a Senior Associate focusing on competition and antitrust law. Her practice covers a wide range of matters pertaining to EU, Greek and UK competition law, and she assists clients on issues related to cartels, vertical agreements, merger control and state aid. Ellie is admitted before the Court of First Instance. Prior to joining us, Ellie worked with a London antitrust boutique firm. She was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2019 and joined us in 2020.

Zepos & Yannopoulos

Elliott Phillips

Elliott is the Founding Partner of Signature’s Gibraltar office. He is an internationally recognised barrister and specialises in offshore contentious trusts, estates and private wealth disputes. His practice also includes commercial litigation, civil fraud, asset tracing, insolvency and shareholder disputes. His dual qualification as a barrister in England and Gibraltar places him in a unique position, enabling him to accept instructions to appear before all Courts in England and Wales. Primarily based in Gibraltar, Elliott is regularly instructed by leading international firms in which Gibraltar proceedings are issued or where there is a strong Gibraltar connection to the litigation. Elliott has considerable experience in the area of contentious trusts and appears regularly before the Chancery Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council on matters relating to the administration of trusts. Elliott’s cases involve removal of trustees, protectors and executors, challenging trustees’ decisions, breach of trust, advising trustees and beneficiaries on freezing orders, in both domestic and in support of foreign proceedings, as well as advising on trusts in the divorce context. Beyond his chancery/commercial work, Elliott led a team in Gibraltar’s first ever abuse of dominate position claim under the Competition Act 2020 and related regulatory appeals up to Gibraltar final appellate level before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Elliott is also a proponent of pro-bono and has led the advocacy on behalf of many families in the context of inquests involving, health authorities, the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Navy, the Prison Service and law enforcement agencies including successfully securing a verdict of unlawful killing. In 2015, Elliott was duly elected as a Member of Parliament in Gibraltar and served as the Shadow Minister for Justice between November 2015 and November 2017 and as HM Leader of the Opposition from 4 December 2017 to 19 October 2019. Elliott was re-elected in 2019 for a further four years and currently serves as Shadow Minister for Health and the Environment. Elliott retired from front line politics in October 2023. Elliott is a Barrister at Law in Gibraltar and admitted as a regulated foreign lawyer in the UK.

Signature Litigation LLP

Elody Malpartida

Associate

Cuatrecasas

Elzbieta Viroux

Managing Partner

Viroux & Partners Sp. k.

Ema Stoyanova

Associate

Schoenherr

Emi Rowse

Partner and Head of Japan Practice

Kudun & Partners

Emil Fahlén Godö

Partner/Lawyer

BOKWALL RISLUND

Emil Szabó

Associate

Szecskay Attorneys at Law

Emilio Dávila

Lawyer

Pino Elizalde Abogados

Emily Ting

Denis Chang’s Chambers

Emma Johansson

Emma Johansson is a Partner in the Competition practice in Stockholm, advising clients on various aspects of competition law. She has broad international and domestic experience in matters including merger control and cartel and other antitrust investigations. Her experience covers several sectors, notably private equity, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, industry and retail. Emma completed her Swedish law degree at the University of Uppsala, followed by LL.M. degrees at the College of Europe in Bruges and Columbia Law School, New York. She is a member of the Swedish Bar Association and the New York Bar.

Roschier

Emmanuel Kaeppelin

Emmanuel KAEPPELIN is co-head of the "Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law" Department. Alongside standard services in corporate law (repeat advisory work and company management), he has developed more specific expertise in the following areas: - company transfers and acquisition audits (acquisitions on behalf of French or international groups) - equity financing and company restructuring (LBOs, MBOs, fundraising, mergers, demergers, partial asset transfers, agreements between partners, etc.) - advisory work to foreign groups in France (incorporation, tax structure, joint ventures, etc.) - drafting of commercial contracts (distribution, sales agents, subcontracting, manufacturing contracts, T&Cs, financing contracts, franchises, IT contracts, etc.) - financing infrastructures (hotel infrastructures, solar power plants, industries, etc.) - business concentrations (notification of acquisitions to the French or European competition authorities) He has developed specific expertise in the manufacturing, health, new energies (wind, solar, hydroelectricity, etc.), real estate (structure of property transactions) and leisure sectors (hotel and tour operator management).

Delsol Avocats

Emmanuel Reille

Emmanuel Reille is a partner in Gide's Competition team in Paris. His practice covers French and European competition law, competition law in Africa and commercial litigation. He regularly advises on antitrust issues in litigation before the French competition authorities and the courts, as well as on merger notification. He is also regularly involved in litigation and merger proceedings before the competition authorities in Africa. Lastly, he is involved in commercial litigation (breach of commercial relations, unfair competition) before the courts. Emmanuel has solid experience in the following sectors: banking, insurance, energy, real estate, construction, agro-industry and agri-food, digital and consumer goods. Emmanuel is a member of the Association des Avocats Pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence (APDC). He is a graduate of the University of Paris X-Nanterre and the University of Kent, Canterbury. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1999.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Emmanuelle van den Broucke

Emmanuelle van den Broucke is a Partner in Competition Law and Distribution Law. In Competition Law, Emmanuelle van den Broucke assists and advises clients on merger controls (France, the European Commission, Morocco and the coordination of multi-jurisdictional notifications), anti-competitive practices (both in counseling and in defending clients in proceedings before the French Competition Authority, the European Commission and the French and European Courts) or for State aid. She also conducts competition audits, implements compliance programs at her clients' premises and works closely with other Dentons lawyers on compliance or risk issues. She has an excellent knowledge of the life sciences and pharmaceutical sector, as well as the luxury and food sectors. Emmanuelle has thorough expertise in the French regulation of restrictive practices, advising clients on the negotiation and implementation of annual framework agreements and conditions of sale as well as compliance of their business practices in accordance with their commercial practices with regard to the provisions of the French Commercial Code or specific regulations to certain products. She is also regularly consulted for the establishment of distribution networks (exclusive/selective/franchise/sales agents/other), including the drafting and negotiation of distribution agreements of all types as well as assisting clients in the event of their violation.

Dentons

Emre Önal

Co-Founding Partner

CoPartners

Emrys Davis

Partner

Bennett Jones LLP

Enrique Bojanic

Enrique is Counsel for the Firm in the Corporate / M&A and Real Estate practices. He is experienced in providing legal and business advice pertaining to different types of projects, transactions, operations, investments, divestitures, joint ventures, real estate law, corporate restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs, to private equity funds, as well as to various Mexican and foreign companies. His practice has also focused on issues related to project finance and infrastructure, e-commerce, and anti-trust law, foreign investment, among others.

Kavanagh Gorozpe

Enrique Carrera

Partner

Cuatrecasas

Eran Bareket

Partner, Head of Legal Practice

Gilat, Bareket & Co. of Reinhold Cohn Group

Erdem Aktekin

Counsel

ACTECON

Eric Buist

Eric Buist is an associate in the Business Law Group at Cassels and a member of the firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Group. Eric advises on all aspects of Canadian Competition and foreign investment review law, including mergers and acquisitions, cartels and other criminal matters, private actions (including class actions), advertising and marketing practices, abuse of dominance and other reviewable trade practices. Learn more.

Cassels

Eric De Gryse

Eric De Gryse specialises in intellectual property law. He is a lawyer at the Brussels’ bar since 1994 and member of hte Council of the Brussels’ Bar (NL) (2024-2025). Eric mainly deals with matters of patent law, know-how and technology transfer in diverse technical fields, in addition to trade mark and design law. He advises clients and acts in national and international litigation, particularly in the areas of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, engineering, food products and retail services. He is registered as UPC representative (Unified Patent Court). He also has in-depth experience and knowledge of certain specific branches of intellectual property law (such as plant varieties and geographical indications) and in consumer law, trade practices, unfair competition and other regulated areas (advertising in the pharmaceuticals sector, regulation in life sciences, e-commerce, standardisation, certification, collective trademarks and quality labels, labelling and regulation of foodstuffs, wines and spirits, etc.). Eric De Gryse is a lecturer at the University of Liège, where he teaches the course entitled “Food Industry: geographical indications, certification and labelling” (Master’s in European law: Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law). He has been a researcher with the Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Leuven (1994 to 1998) and visiting professor at the University of Ghent (2014-2017). Eric is an editor of Revue de Droit Commercial Belge (section on intellectual property rights, law and technology) and is the author and co-author of several publications in his areas of practice. He is ranked in Band 2 in Intellectual Property by Chambers & Partners, and as a Leading Individual by The Legal 500. He is recognised in the Silver band in Trademark by WTR1000, and in the Silver band in Patent by iAM Patent. He is recognised as Trademark Star and as Patent Star by IP Stars, and he is Recommended in Patents and in Trademarks by Who’s Who Legal (Global Leaders Guide). Eric is an active member of a number of professional associations. He is a former board member of the European Patent Lawyers’ Association (EPLAW) and a current member of the advisory board. He is also a member of the Emerging Issues Committee with the International Trademark Association (INTA), dealing notably with consequences of climate change on IP (anti greenwashing rules), and is the former chair of the Geographical Indications Committee (2016-2017). He has participated in the publication of several reports for the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI). Eric is also a member of the Benelux Association of Trade Mark and Design Law (BMM), of the Deutsche VereinigungfürgewerblichenRechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR), the International Competition Law League (LIDC) and the Belgian Copyright Association (ABA).

Simont Braun

Eric White

Consultant, Brussels

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP