Mayer Brown‘s ’outstanding’ regulatory team has a track record of litigating successfully before the Board of Appeal of the ECHA and ECtJ, as well as running product defence cases before all major relevant institutions, including the European Commission. ‘Excellent regulatory lawyer’ Jean-Philippe Montfort also leads the firm’s global chemicals industry group. Other key senior figures include Pavlina Chopova-Leprêtre, who was promoted to partner in January 2023. The department recently strengthened its associate bench with the arrival of Nikoleta Kyriazopoulou from Hogan Lovells International LLP in August 2022, followed by Javier Saladich from Baker McKenzie CVBA/SCRL in May 2023. Thomas Delille departed the firm in October 2023.
Testimonials
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‘Outstanding regulatory legal team, very competent in the different areas of chemical and life sciences regulation, working very professionally.’
‘Jean-Philippe Montfort is an excellent regulatory lawyer, well experienced and extremely smart. Thomas Delille has developed himself in exactly the same direction.’
Key clients
- 3M
- Albemarle Corporation
Work highlights
- Retained by all members of the Titanium Dioxide Industry Association and Evonik to submit an action in annulment to the General Court of the EU against the harmonised classification of titanium dioxide (TiO2) under the EU’s CLP Regulation.
- Represented AlFE Consortium, BASF and Kemira in a case which sets boundaries to authorities' margin of discretion in the context of the REACH Regulation.