Baker McKenzie CVBA/SCRL

Fiona Carlin is the head of the EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs Practice in Brussels. She is the former chief executive of Baker McKenzie's EMEA region and the former chair of the Firm's Global Competition and Antitrust Law Practice comprising more than 320 lawyers in over 40 countries. She has remained an active practitioner throughout her various leadership roles with a particular focus on regulated industries.

Fiona was a founding and long-standing member of Baker McKenzie's Global Diversity & Inclusion Committee and is dedicated to creating an inclusive high-performance culture where the talent of our lawyers and business professionals can flourish.

Fiona advises clients on a wide range of competition law issues, including merger control, the structuring of distribution networks, state aid grants, compliance programmes and the defence of clients involved in competition investigations up to the appeal stage before the European courts in Luxembourg. Her focus is predominantly on the life sciences, consumer goods and industrials segments.

Fiona has a stellar success rate before the European courts in competition and state aid cases.

She has served as key adviser to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations ever since the European Commission's pharmaceutical sector inquiry was launched in 2007.