ANNE ROBERT has extensive experience advising multinational clients on EU antitrust/competition, regulatory, and policy matters, with a particular focus on the life sciences sector.
She provides strategic counsel to companies in the context of complex cartel and abuse of dominance investigations before the European Commission and national competition authorities. She frequently represents clients in high-stakes litigation proceedings before the EU Courts, and recently secured an award-winning victory for a client in a proceeding involving the EU free movement and e-commerce rules.
Anne also has particular experience representing clients in merger control cases and advising them on State aid and compliance issues.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of W@Competition, a platform for women competition professionals, and is actively involved in the Women’s Life Sciences Network (WLSN), a platform for high-level discussions of life sciences law and policy developments. Anne is responsible for the antitrust supervision for each of the Sidley Life Sciences Legal Networks. She is also a regular speaker and contributor to conferences and has published widely on EU competition law and policy issues.
Anne has been named to Law.com International’s 2024 “Rising Stars: Europe’s Best Up-and-Coming Female Lawyers” list, and was named a “Rising Star” in the Private Practice category of W@’s Five Star Women Competition Professionals 2022 survey. She has also won the “Antitrust & Competition Lawyer of the Year” award at the Women in Business Law EMEA Awards 2024.
Recently, Anne is recommended in Legal 500 EMEA (Belgium) 2024 for Competition: EU and global. The 2023 edition recommended Anne for her standout role in pharma sector antitrust litigation.
She gained first hand in-house experience during a secondment to the Group Antitrust team of a multinational pharmaceutical company in Basel, Switzerland.
Anne is fluent in English, French, Italian, German, and Luxembourgish.