Fiona Carlin

Practice Areas

Antitrust & Competition

Merger Control & Joint Ventures

Cartels, Investigations and Dawn Raids

Life Sciences/Healthcare

Consumer Goods & Retail

Career

Fiona Carlin is the head of the EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs practice in Brussels. She is the former Chief Executive of much 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 is also the Chair of the European Advisory Board of Catalyst, a leading non-profit organisation dedicated to expanding opportunities for women and business. She 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 has been listed in "The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers" since 2009, and is among Global Competition Review's Top 100 Women in Antitrust. Chambers quotes clients as citing her "legal and pragmatic advice" and describing her as "globally minded".

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

Fiona has a stellar success rate before the European Courts in competition and State aid cases.

Professional Memberships

Has served as key advisor to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) throughout and since the European Commission pharmaceutical sector inquiry in 2008/09.

Publications

Fiona has published many articles and speaks regularly at conferences on topics including the competition rules governing distribution, cartels, merger control developments and developments in the pharmaceutical sector. See Fiona's LinkedIn profile for more details.

Personal

Pro bono and community involvement:

European advisory board chair of Catalyst, an organization dedicated to expanding opportunities for women in business

Partner sponsor of a global pro bono project that has mapped the laws protecting victims of domestic violence in more than 80 countries

Sponsor of an initiative to promote greater socio-economic inclusion in the legal profession in Belgium