Managing Multijurisdictional Transactions: Merger Control, FDI & FSR Considerations
Managing Multijurisdictional Transactions: Merger Control, FDI & FSR Considerations


Angélique is Senior Legal Counsel, and Head of the Competition Law and Policy Group for EMEA at Johnson&Johnson, which she joined in 2019 and where she works with businesses and lawyers in the pharma, medical devices and consumer goods sectors. She is responsible for all antitrust-related aspects, incl. mergers and divestitures, investigations, litigation, counselling, compliance and training. Prior to that, Angelique was Counsel at Freshfields, based initially in Paris and then Brussels. She is also a founding and board member of Women@CompetitionFrance as well as a founder and vice president of l'Entente, the association of French competition law practitioners based in Brussels.

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris was appointed as Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London in September 2022. He holds a Chair in Competition Law and Economics. He is also an Ordinary Member (Judge) of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Professor Kokkoris' main research interests span all areas of competition law and policy including comparative competition law/economics and policy focusing on EU, US, BRICS and ASEAN. He is also focusing on issues of national security concerns and FDI in US, UK and EU as well as foreign subsidies regulation. Professor Kokkoris has formerly served at the UK Office for Fair Trading (now UK Competition and Markets Authority), DG Competition, European Commission and US Federal Trade Commission.
Professor Kokkoris has led and worked on funded projects by the European Commission, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, the OECD, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other international institutions. He is a special advisor to a number of competition authorities globally and frequently advises companies on competition enforcement issues in a number of jurisdictions. Professor Kokkoris also delivers training programmes for companies, competition authorities and courts.
Professor Kokkoris has more than 100 publications including more than 22 authored/co-authored/edited books, more than 75 articles and 25 chapters in edited volumes. Professor Kokkoris is on the editorial board of various international journals, he frequently speaks at conferences globally and is frequently interviewed by international media.

Sibel Yilmaz advises on all aspects of competition law, foreign investment and foreign subsidies screening, with a focus on the life sciences, technology and private equity sectors.
Sibel has particular expertise in the life sciences sector and has been involved in some of the industry's most high profile matters in recent years, including representing Novartis on its $30 billion acquisition of GSK’s oncology business, advising Takeda on its sale of certain respiratory products to AstraZeneca and representing clients in several investigations relating to alleged excessive prices and other non-competitive practices in the life science sector.
Sibel is ranked among the world's top antitrust practitioners by Global Competition Review, who included her in their most recent 40 Under 40 survey, as well as Chambers Global. She is described as "a brilliant and promising lawyer, who is highly recommended for complex merger work” and “an exceptional talent”, "absolutely a tip for the top."
Sibel received her LL.M. in Law and Economics from the University of Rotterdam and Master of Law from Stockholm University and is admitted to practice in Belgium and Sweden.

Nicholas Khan has practised almost exclusively in the field of European law, both in private practice at the Bar in London and for many years as a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission. His experience covers a wide range of matters, including; sex discrimination, free movement of persons, the Brussels Regulation on jurisdiction, anti-dumping, State aid and competition.
In recent years he has represented the Commission in many significant competition cases before the European Courts and in interventions before the English courts, including: Courage v. Crehan, the Seamless Tubes, Gas Insulated Switchgear, Power Cables and Air Freight cartels, MasterCard and the Interchange Fee damages appeals to the UK Supreme Court, the Micula arbitration and State aid proceedings in the English courts, Intel, the Google cases and the Illumina/Grail merger cases. He follows procedural matters particularly closely and is the author of the 6th Edition of Kerse and Khan, EU Anti-Trust Procedure. He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2018.
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