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Webinar summary – Global Antitrust Enforcement Priorities – Tuesday 10 June 2025

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Our speakers provided an overview of the key antitrust enforcement priorities and trends across the EU, UK, US and Asia Pacific.

As companies globally face the challenges presented by supply chain disruption, input shortages, cost increases and tariff uncertainties, authorities are clamping down on collusive responses to these challenges – with trade associations / industry bodies and price signalling a focus for enforcement. At the same time, authorities are actively pursuing new priorities such as restrictive HR/labour market practices or collusion on sustainability/ESG issues.

We also see an unrelenting focus on “Big Tech” and digital services, as authorities globally develop their regulations and enforcement tools to handle the evolving challenges in these markets.

Our speakers provided practical insights that companies should consider in response to these developments.

You can access the webinar recording here.

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James Robinson is a partner in the London office’s Competition, Trade & Foreign Investment department, and has extensive experience in UK and EU competition law. He is a member of the Baker McKenzie Global Antitrust & Competition Practice Group, and is Global Co-Chair of the Firm’s Cartels Practice, which is ranked #1 in the world by GCR Magazine.
James has been named a Future Leader in Competition Law by Who's Who Legal and GCR.

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Ashley Eickhof is a partner in the Firm's North America Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. She has a proven track record of successfully representing multinational corporations and their executives in high-stakes criminal and civil investigations by federal and state agencies, including the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. In 2024, Ashley was honored as a "Rising Star" by Legal 500 in both antitrust cartel and antitrust civil litigations/class action defense. Drawing upon her background as a federal prosecutor for the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, Ashley brings invaluable insight to her clients, ensuring effective representation in the most complex legal matters.
Ashley serves as Co-Chair of BakerWomen DC and is on the Steering Committee for the Firm’s Cartel Task Force.

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Kurt Haegeman is a partner in Baker McKenzie's EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs Practice in Brussels and co-Managing Partner of the Firm's Belgian offices.

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Laura Liu is a partner at the Baker McKenzie FenXun Joint Operation Office in Beijing. She advises clients across a range of transactional, advisory and contentious competition matters, with a focus on China antitrust legal issues. Laura has experience in multi-jurisdictional competition law issues as well, having worked in Baker McKenzie's Brussels office, where she assisted clients with multijurisdictional merger filings and antitrust compliance. Laura has also assisted clients with handling multijurisdictional foreign investment filings as well as the new EU Foreign Government Subsidies Regulation for cross-border transaction and also has assisted several clients in passing the China National Security Review (NSR) in China Laura has advised numerous clients on complex competition compliance and advisory matters, including setting up competition compliance programs and conducting internal compliance audits etc.. In addition, she has considerable experience in handling dawn raids and antitrust investigations facing the China competition authority. With a global perspective and deep understanding of Chinese companies' demands, Laura has assisted a significant number of China-based multinational companies in navigating layers of regulatory control, such as global multijurisdictional merger control, foreign investment review as well as the EU foreign government subsidy assessments in their cross-border M&A deals, as well as managing the global coordination of regulatory filing strategies for major deals with Baker McKenzie offices and local firms to obtain necessary clearances in overseas jurisdictions. Before joining the joint operation, Laura worked as a full-time antitrust lawyer at two leading domestic PRC law firms for six years. She now plays a key role in building up and strengthening the China practice. Clients have commented that "she is very diligent, responsive and definitely knows her stuff" and that "her advice is right to the point and commercially practical."

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Léna Sersiron leads Baker McKenzie’s French Competition and Distribution practice. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2003 and was co-opted as a Partner in 2012. She is a worldwide Baker McKenzie Competition Steering Committee member.
With over 20 years' experience, Léna Sersiron has a strong track record of successfully handling difficult and sensitive competition cases (investigations and subsequent litigation) at both EU and national level. She has extensive knowledge related to inspections and the collection of digital evidence (forensic IT). She advises various clients on a wide array of competition subjects, including complex merger control operations (at a French and EU level). She also works on distribution law cases.
Léna Sersiron also advises blue-chip clients from multiple sectors such as Daunat, Demeco, Lubrizol, Servier, Wonderbox, EDF, TDF, Crédit Agricole, Avis Budget Group, CGI, etc.
She is also well-established in the agricultural and food sector, advising various clients and professional trade associations (FNPSM, CNIEL, Nutrixo, FNIL, etc.) on a wide array of competition subjects.
She frequently contributes to various law conferences and seminars.
Léna Sersiron has been praised by one rival practitioner as an "excellent litigator." Acritas 2021 recognizes Léna as a "stellar professional lawyer" based on interviews and testimonials of more than 2,500 companies decision-makers. Clients interviewed have called her "very talented. The work provided is irreproachable and of high quality." She is also reported to be "the most impressive on contentious matters currently" and "a remarkable lawyer," according to sources. She is highly sought after for her expertise in handling abuse of dominance and cartel investigations. Clients also say that they are "extremely happy about her way of practising," going on to add, "She knows the ins and outs of the law."

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