Anne Federle

Partner at Bird & Bird LLP

Speaker

Anne Federle is a partner in Bird & Bird's competition law team and the managing partner of the firm's Brussels office. Anne has over 25 years of experience advising multinational clients in all areas of EU and German competition law. The key areas of Anne‘s practice are merger control and cartel investigations. She has been involved in a large number of complex merger control cases before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office and regularly manages multijurisdictional merger control proceedings across the globe. She also represents clients in EU cartel proceedings, helps them conduct internal investigations to identify and address anticompetitive conduct and supports them in developing effective competition law compliance programmes.

Sectors in which Anne has developed significant expertise include in particular the automotive industry as well as the electronics and telecommunications industries. Anne is also actively involved in the debate on competition law issues around (big) data and regularly advises on competition law issues relating to the collection, ownership and use of data, working closely with the firm's international data protection group.

Anne is a member of the board of the German competition law association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht). She is regularly listed as a “frequently recommended” competition lawyer in the German directory JUVE and as a leading practitioner in all major directories and was featured in Global Competition Review's 100 "Women in Antitrust" survey.

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