About Sara

Sara focuses her practice on EU competition law. She advises clients on merger control, foreign investment reviews, foreign subsidies regulation (FSR), antitrust and EU cartel investigations. She has experience steering multijurisdictional merger control proceedings in complex cross-border transactions before the European Commission and competition authorities across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Sara also advises on state aid and distribution matters at the EU level.

Before joining Cooley, Sara gained competition law experience at an international law firm in Brussels and completed internships at international and national law firms in Paris, advising on competition law and litigation matters.

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Admissions and credentials

  • Paris
  • Brussels (List E)

Education

  • King's College London
    PG Diploma, EU Competition Law, 2024
  • HEC Paris
    LLM, Law and International Management, 2021
  • Université Paris Nanterre
    Master 2, International and European Law (International Trade Law), Valedictorian, 2019
  • University of Aberdeen
    LLM, International Commercial Law, 2018
  • Université de Strasbourg
    Master 1, International and European Law, 2017
  • Université de Strasbourg
    Bachelor, Law, 2016

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