Kristina Nordlander
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Biography • Competition
Kristina Nordlander is a partner in Sidley's Brussels office, where she practices EU law with a focus on competition and regulatory law. She has particular experience in competition and regulatory issues affecting the chemical, pharmaceutical and financial services sectors.Ms Nordlander has extensive experience advising clients on the full range of EU competition issues, including joint ventures and cooperation agreements, merger control proceedings, state aid, cartel investigations and antitrust compliance. She has recently represented a number of major pharmaceutical companies on issues related to the sector inquiry undertaken by the European Commission. In addition, she has been involved in advising major banks and financial institutions on issues raised by the financial crisis.
Ms Nordlander is an experienced litigator before the EU Courts. She has represented clients in disputes involving antitrust, state aid, legal privilege and regulatory issues. For example, she served as co-counsel to the European Company Lawyers Association (ECLA) as an intervener in the appeal before the European Court of Justice against the General Court's judgment in the Akzo case regarding legal privilege for in-house counsel.
In 2008, Kristina founded the Women's Competition Network (WCN), the international professional forum for senior competition law and policy professionals. Ms Nordlander's admissions include New York and Sweden, and she is an associated member of the Brussels Bar.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers which can be purchased from our Shop.
Biography • Life Sciences - Regulatory
Kristina Nordlander is a partner in Sidley's Brussels office, where she practises EU law with a focus on competition, environmental regulatory law and litigation. She has particular experience relating to the chemical, pharmaceutical, mining and metals, biotech and financial services sectors.Ms Nordlander has been involved recently in a number of major cases before the EU courts, including in important cartel cases and ground-breaking access to documents litigation. Ms Nordlander has litigated a number of cases on chemicals regulation and classification and labelling rules, including one of the first challenges to a REACH Candidate Listing against the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and challenges to the European Commission's classification of a large number of chemical substances in parallel actions in the European Court of Justice and General Court. Ms Nordlander also advises on the evaluation of regional and national environmental requirements against the provisions of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and provides assistance to clients in developing and executing WTO-based advocacy strategies.
Ms Nordlander assists clients with market access and compliance issues under various EU regulatory frameworks, including REACH and rules relating to GMOs, plant protection products, biocides, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. She represents several trade associations in these areas and participates actively in the policy debate around EU risk regulation.
Ms Nordlander's admissions include New York and Sweden, and she is an associated member of the Brussels Bar.
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Biography • Environment
Kristina Nordlander is a partner in Sidley's Brussels office, where she practises EU law with a focus on competition and environmental regulatory law. She has particular experience relating to the chemical, pharmaceutical, mining and metals, biotech and financial services sectors.Ms Nordlander has been involved recently in a number of major cases before the EU courts, including in important cartel cases and ground-breaking access to documents litigation. Ms Nordlander has litigated a number of cases on chemicals regulation and classification and labelling rules, including one of the first challenges to a REACH Candidate Listing against the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and challenges to the European Commission's classification of a large number of chemical substances in parallel actions in the European Court of Justice and General Court. Ms Nordlander also advises on the evaluation of regional and national environmental requirements against the provisions of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and provides assistance to clients in developing and executing WTO-based advocacy strategies.
Ms Nordlander assists clients with REACH compliance, including registration of substances, developing import strategies, creating or responding to materials declarations, contracting with other companies in Substance Information Exchange Fora (SIEFs) and consortia, advising on articles and substances in articles, complying with downstream user requirements, authorisation and helping clients reorganise for effective REACH compliance.
Ms Nordlander's admissions include New York and Sweden, and she is an associated member of the Brussels Bar.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Environment Lawyers which can be purchased from our Shop.
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