Christian Ahlborn has been appointed as the new Global Practice Head for Competition and Antitrust by the Linklaters’ partnership board. Ahlborn will hold the role for a four-year term commencing from July 1, 2019.
Christian joined the firm in 1993 and has over 20 years’ experience advising multinational corporates, banks, and other institutions on all aspects of global competition law. He is widely recognized as a market-leading competition lawyer and has led on some of the most challenging global merger control, behavioral antitrust, and State aid matters
Gideon Moore, Firmwide Managing Partner, commented on the appointment, “Christian has an outstanding record as a competition lawyer and we believe he is ideally placed to take on the leadership of our global practice. Our clients, regulators and peers regard us as one of the market leading teams in competition and antitrust. We believe that Christian will bring a lot of value to the role and I am excited to see where he leads the practice in the coming years.”
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