Fiona Carlin is head of the Firm’s European & Competition Law Practice in Brussels. She is the chair of the Competition Law Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU), of which she was vice-chair of the Board of Directors from 2004 to 2007. In that capacity, she takes an active role in consultations with the European Commission on all major EU Competition policy developments. Ms. Carlin has published numerous articles, and speaks regularly at conferences on topics related to her practice. She is listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers 2009.

Practice Focus

Ms. Carlin advises clients on a wide variety of competition law issues. Her experience includes merger control, patent and know-how licensing, the structuring of distribution networks, state aid grants, compliance programs, and the defence of clients involved in cartel investigations up to appeal stage before the European Courts in Luxembourg.

Representative Legal Matters

• Advised on numerous high-profile merger cases involving in-depth investigations by the European Commission and the negotiation of remedies in the supermarket and mining sectors.
• Successfully advised the Hungarian energy company MOL in a case involving a USD17 billion hostile takeover bid by Austrian energy company OMV. After a nine-month battle, OMV withdrew its bid since the remedies required to solve the multiple competition law problems identified by MOL were too value-destructive.
• Served as key advisor to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) throughout the recent European Commission pharmaceutical sector inquiry.

Admission

Belgium (1996)
Northern Ireland (1992)

Education

King's College London  (Diploma UK and European Copyright Law) (2000)
College of Europe in Brugge  (Diploma Advanced European Studies) (1989)
Queen's University Belfast  (LL.B.) (1988)