Areas of Practice
- Antitrust & Competition
- Cartel/Price-Fixing
- Chemical Regulatory
- Environment & Natural Resources
- EU Chemicals, REACH & CLP, Biocides & Pesticides
- EU Competition
Languages
- English
Practice-Specific Experience
Education
- King’s College, London, Postgraduate Diploma in European Union Competition Law, 2009
- King’s College, London, Postgraduate Diploma in European Union Law, 2007
- World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland, LL.M. in International Law and Economics, summa cum laude, 2004
- Florida State University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2002
- Franklin & Marshall College, B.A. in Biology, 2000
Bar & Court Admissions
- New York
Admitted
- Member of the Belgian Foreign Bar (B-List)
Laura C. Atlee
Associate
Avenue Louise 4893rd Floor
B-1050 Brussels
TEL: +32 2 626 0516
FAX: +32 2 626 0510
Laura Atlee is an associate in the Brussels office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Her practice focuses on EU competition law.
Ms. Atlee represents both European and foreign businesses before the European Commission in relation to antitrust violations (including cartels and abuses of monopoly position). She also helps clients obtain clearance for proposed mergers, acquisitions, and other forms of concentration of undertakings.
Ms. Atlee has worked with clients across a range of sectors including steel, utilities, industrial lifting devices, software, and airfreight services.
Representative Matters
- Advising Japan Airlines in relation to the creation of a joint venture with BA on Europe/Japan destinations.
- Representing Japan Airlines in the EC probe into international passenger services between Europe and Japan.
- Advising European and global companies in ongoing cartel investigations in the EU.
- Representing a French-based engineering group as complainant in the EC abuse of dominant position investigation against a global mining conglomerate.
- Acting for an Asian airline in the Commission’s investigation into price-fixing in the air cargo sector.
- Advising a major European energy and heating conglomerate in relation to national and multi-jurisdictional merger filings.
- Advising an international steel producer on antitrust compliance and mergers.
Selected Publications
- CPI Antitrust Chronicle
December 2011, Competition Policy International - EU: Cartels and Leniency
2011, The European Antitrust Review 2012 – A Global Competition Review Special Report - April 2011
- CPI Antitrust Journal
April 2010, Competition Policy International - January 26, 2010
- December 2009
- July 2008
