Competition Rankings Reviewed

Before going any further, it is worth stressing that Chambers and Partners does not have any fixed targets or quotas around the diversity of the rankings – ideally, our rankings should paint an accurate picture of the legal market in each practice area and jurisdiction.  As it would be highly difficult and extremely time consuming to establish the exact proportion of female lawyers practising competition law in each jurisdiction, the numbers below are presented for interest, rather than to be compared to the current state of the market in each jurisdiction.

Overall, around 28% of the lawyers ranked in competition law sections in Europe are female.  Approximately 11% of those female lawyers are ranked in the top tier of our rankings for their respective jurisdictions, and they are highlighted below.

As might be expected, the majority of these are based in the larger jurisdictions, with Belgium, Germany and France having the highest number of female lawyers ranked.  There are though impressive showings from Norway and Romania with respectively the fourth and sixth highest number of ranked female lawyers – with the larger jurisdiction of Spain sandwiched between them in fifth place.

Looking at the percentage of ranked female lawyers in each jurisdiction, at least 50% of the ranked competition lawyers in Bulgaria, Latvia, Romania and Ukraine are female.  At the other end of the scale, fewer than 20% of the ranked lawyers in Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, Switzerland and Turkey are female.

One interesting aspect to note is that when looking purely at the people ranked in the up-and-coming and associate to watch categories for competition law sections across Europe, there is an exact 50/50 split between male and female lawyers.  We have also highlighted the competition lawyers ranked in our up-and-coming and associate to watch categories below.

Astrid Ablasser-Neuhuber (bpv Austria); Gitte Holtso (Plesner Denmark); Elo Tamm (COBALT Estonia); Piibe Lehtsaar (Sorainen Estonia); Ami Paanajarvi (Roschier Finland); Leena Lindberg (Krogerus Finland); Anne Wachsmann (Linklaters France); Maria Trabucchi (BDGS France); Daniela Seeliger (Linklaters Germany); Anastasia Dritsa (Kyriakides Georgopoulos Greece); Silvia D’Alberti (PedersoliGattai Italy); Ligia Merwin (Ellex Latvia); Julija Jerneva (VILGERTS Latvia); Rasa Zaščiurinskaitė (COBALT Lithuania); Siri Teigum (Thommessen Norway); Marta Sendrowicz (Allen & Overy Poland); Malgorzata Szwaj (Linklaters Poland); Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Baranska (Dentons Poland); Malgorzata Modzelewska de Raad (Modzelewska & Pasnik Poland); Raluca Vasilache (Tuca Zbarcea Romania); Georgiana Badescu (Schoenherr Romania); Srdana Petronijevic (Schoenherr Serbia); Andrea Orsulova (Advokatska Kancelaria Andrea Orsulova Slovakia); Natasa Pipin Nahtigal (Selih & partnerji Slovenia); Janja Zaplotnik (Jadek & Pensa Slovenia); Edurne Navarro Varona (Uria Menendez Experts Based Abroad Spain); Susana Cabrera (Garrigues Spain); Patricia Vidal (Uria Menendez Spain).

Pierre Goffinet (Strelia Belgium); Vincent Mussche (Liedekerke Belgium); Wim de Meester (Quinz Belgium); Ashwin van Rooijen (Clifford Chance Belgium); Marjolein de Backer (Eversheds Belgium); Katarzyna Czapracka (White & Case Belgium); Kerry O’Connell (Slaughter & May Belgium); Isabel Rooms (Cleary Gottlieb Belgium); Attila Borsos (Gibson Dunn Belgium); Eleonora Mateina (Eversheds Bulgaria); Christian Monberg (Accura Denmark); Mart Blondal (COBALT Estonia); Katia Jaakkola (Avance Finland); Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson (Freshfields France); Laurence Bary (Dechert France); Ning-Ly Seng (Peltier France); Camille Paulhac (Paul Hastings France); Isabel Oest (Commeo Germany);  Violeta Panagiotopoulou (Zepos & Yannopoulos Greece); Marton Kocsis (CERHA HEMPEL Hungary); Darach Connolly (DLA Piper Ireland); Liam Heylin (Mason Hayes & Curran Ireland); Valeria Veneziano (Osborne Clarke Italy); Luigi Nascimbene (PwC Italy); Henrikas Stelmokiatis (Motieka & Audzevicius Lithuania); Edita Dauksiene (WALLESS Lithuania); Laura Ziferman (WALLESS Lithuania); Joost Houdijk (AKD Netherlands); Bram Nijhof (Taylor Wessing Netherlands); Marieke Bredenoord-Spoek (De Brauw Netherlands); Stian Hultin Oddbjornsen (CMS Norway); Wenche Saedal (Thommessen Norway); Anne Buan (CMS Norway); Henrik Nordling (CMS Norway); Preben Milde Thorbjornsen (Wikborg Rein Norway); Heide Jorkjend (Thommessen Norway); Elisabeth Lian Haugsdal (Wiersholm Norway); Miguel Marques de Carvalho (Miranda & Associados Portugal); Alexandra Henriques (PLMJ Portugal); Alberto Saavedra (Servulo & Associados Portugal); Razvan Bardicea (Biris Goran Romania); Lucian Bozian (D&B Romania); Andrea Grigoras (Reff Romania); Mona Banu (KPMG Romania); Anca Diaconu (Nestor Nestor Romania); Otilia Vilcu (GNP Romania); Srdjan Jankovic (CMS Serbia); Spela Arsova (Selih & partnerji Slovenia); Yolanda Martinez Mata (Marimon Spain); Helena Selander (Norburg & Scherp Sweden); Karin Roberts (Delphi Sweden); Michael Tschudin (Wenger Vieli Switzerland); Roger Thomi (Baker McKenzie Switzerland); Korhan Yildirim (ELIG, Turkey).

Galina Petkova (Schoenherr Bulgaria); Jan Kupcik (Schoenherr Czech Republic); Tania Patsalia (Bernitsas Greece); Levente Molnar (DLA Piper Hungary); Pietro Missanelli (Greenberg Traurig Italy); Mara Stabulniece (TGS Baltic Latvia); Vladlena Radusane-Simica (TGS Baltic Latvia); Auridas Litvinas (Sorainen Lithuania); Roos Elemans (Stibbe Netherlands); Jotte Mulder (Pels Rijcken Netherlands); Oda Hellenes Ekre (Wiersholm Norway); Sabina Famirska (Wardynski Poland); Claudia Coutinho da Costa (VdA Portugal); Nuno Calaim Lourenco (SRS Legal Portugal); Mladen Vujic (Karanovic & Partners Serbia); Ivana Stojanovic Raisic (Gecic Law Serbia).