Biography: Competition

Kristina Nordlander is a partner in Sidley's Brussels office, where she focuses on EU 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 on competition issues raised by state aid granted in connection with 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, Ms. Nordlander served as co-counsel to the government of Gibraltar in its successful appeal to the General Court (formerly the Court of First Instance), overturning a European Commission state aid decision against a planned corporate tax reform in Gibraltar. 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 addition to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and financial services, Ms Nordlander has advised corporate clients and trade associations in a wide variety of other industries and business sectors, in particular mining and minerals, media and broadcasting, agrochemicals and biotechnology.

In 2008, Ms Nordlander founded the Women's Competition Network (WCN), the professional forum for senior EU competition law and policy professionals. She is a member of the American Bar Association and her admissions include New York, Brussels and Sweden.

Biography: Environment

Kristina Nordlander is a partner in Sidley's Brussels office where she focuses on EU competition and regulatory law. She has particular experience in environmental regulation and litigation 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 ground-breaking access to documents litigation relating to the records of expert scientific committees. Ms Nordlander is currently litigating 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 TBT-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.

In 2008, Ms Nordlander founded the Women's Competition Network, the international professional forum for senior competition law and policy professionals. She is a member of the American Bar Association.