Simmons & Simmons

Competition

Ombline Ancelin is the lead Competition partner in the Paris office at Simmons & Simmons. Her practice encompasses the full range of competition law, including merger control, anti-competitive practices, distribution and franchising, and also EU general law and consumer law. She also regularly advises on foreign investment control issues.

She represents clients at both national and international levels, in antitrust investigations and litigation in several sectors with a particular in-depth knowledge in the life sciences, TMT, energy, fast-moving consumer goods sectors.

She works on both advisory and contentious matters, and litigates before the French Competition Authority, the Paris Court of Appeal and Commercial Courts. Moreover, she regularly advises clients on their commercial policies and the organization of their distribution networks across Europe. She assists clients during competition inspections and conducts internal audits as part of her work on competition compliance.

Ombline has been acknowledged among the “40 in their 40s Notable Women Competition Professionals in Europe” in 2019 by the platform for women competition professionals W@Competition. In 2021, she was elected as vice-president of the “Competition Commission” of ICC France.

Ombline Ancelin joined Simmons & Simmons as a partner in June 2013. Prior to joining Simmons & Simmons, Ombline Ancelin had, after qualifying in January 2000 as a lawyer at the Paris Bar, joined the Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice of another international law firm in February 2001 and became a Counsel of this firm in May 2008.

French and English

Ombline holds a Master's Degree in Business and Economic Law (La Sorbonne), and the Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English.