Arnold & Porter LLP's European practice assists clients in a broad range of regulatory, litigation, and corporate transactional matters to overcome the legal, public policy, and regulatory issues they face as they conduct business in the European environment. Our clients include multinational corporations and financial institutions, governments, international organizations, and others. They come to us from a broad array of industries, including food, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, media and communications, IT, consumer electronics, and automotive and general manufacturing.
Our European practice includes innovative work in the intellectual property, life sciences-including product liability litigation, competition law and corporate transactional areas. We count some of the world's largest global pharmaceutical and medical device companies among our clients, and our practice is recognized for its leadership in this arena. The firm's life sciences practice was described by Chambers UK 2009 as "a leading force for regulatory work in the life sciences sector."
We provide the full spectrum of competition law/antitrust services: structuring and obtaining clearance for corporate transactions; advising on application of the law to agreements, conduct, and corporate strategies; tailor-made competition compliance training and auditing; and representation before EU and national competition authorities around the world, as well as in EU and national courts. Our experience with EU law also includes free movement of goods, technical standards, chemical regulation, and general consumer-protection issues.
To serve our clients with focus and efficiency, we have two teams of Arnold & Porter attorneys on the ground in Europe. The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa 2009 ranked our Brussels team as recommended in competition. Chambers Global 2009 wrote of our competition team in Brussels, "It excels at giving practical advice and understanding the client's business." Marleen Van Kerckhove is admired for her "great communications skills" and Luc Gyselen is described as "client-focused and down-to-earth."
In addition,The UK Legal 500 2008 ranked our London team as recommended in: EU competition, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, product liability, brand management, IT and telecoms, intellectual property, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and rail.