Paul Lugard

Antitrust, Competition Law, Litigation

Paul Lugard is a Brussels-based EU and international competition lawyer and a partner in the Antitrust Practice Group of Baker Botts LLP. His practice focuses on complex merger review proceedings and investigations into alleged anticompetitive business practices.

He represents clients before the European Courts, the European Commission, national competition authorities, national courts and international arbitration tribunals. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Lugard has steered over 100 international mergers and joint ventures through the merger review process of the European Commission and government agencies around the world. His areas of particular experience include distribution agreements in the energy sector and the application of the antitrust laws to life sciences and high technology sectors, including digital markets, standardization, patent pools, and licensing of standard essential patents. For many years, Mr. Lugard has been active in the development of international competition law and policy. He served as a European Commission Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network and as Vice Chair of the Business at OECD (BIAC) Competition Committee. He also previously chaired the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commission on Competition. Before joining Baker Botts LLP, Mr. Lugard was a Senior Vice President and the Head of Antitrust at Royal Philips Electronics N.V.

Bars of The Netherlands and Belgium; Vice Chair BIAC (Business and Industry Advisory Council to the OECD), Immediate Past Chair ICC Competition Commission, NGA to the ICN, Past Vice Chair ABA Antitrust Section IP Committee and Vice Chair ABA IDC Task Force.

Paul Lugard frequently publishes on a variety of EU and international competition law matters.