Claire Simpson

Partner at Van Bael & Bellis

Speaker

Claire is a barrister with over 25 years of courtroom and advisory experience in EU/EEA competition, State aid and internal market law.

She brings clients a diverse perspective: she has worked in private practice (in barristers’ chambers in London), in-house (as Group Head of Competition Law at Euroclear) and most recently as EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) senior counsel, responsible for the pursuit and defence of competition and internal market cases before the EFTA Court and European Court of Justice (CJEU).

Claire’s advocacy work has covered complex competition cases and major cases on a wide range of substantive and procedural EU/EEA law issues. These include privacy and GDPR, free movement and consumer protection, tax law, financial services, fundamental rights, sport, State aid and principles of effectiveness and proportionality.