Vice-President of The French Competition Authority
Between 2001 and June 2025, Anne was an Equity partner at the Magic Circle law firm Linklaters. She is now Vice-President of the French Competition Authority by appointment of the French President of the Republic. This is the first time a private practioner was appointed to this role in France.
Anne is a graduate of Collège d’Europe at Bruges where she worked later as assistant of the Legal Studies. Since 2017, she has been visiting professor there in charge of the seminar on European merger control.
During her time at Linklaters, Anne has been ranked individually in Band 1 in Chambers for many years. She was featured in the Hall of Fame of Legal500 EMEA 2025. In 2025, she also appeared on the prestigious Women in Antitrust list published by Global Competition Review (GCR). Earlier in her career, Anne was listed twice in GCR’s Top 40 Under 40 Antitrust Lawyers.
She has always been specialised in competition law, including cartels, abuse of dominance, vertical restraints, and merger control at both the national and European levels, whether at the administrative investigation stage or before the relevant courts. She also handled significant private enforcement cases before French courts. Anne focused on certain key industries (industrial and consumer goods, Pharma and air transport). Beyond her advisory role, Anne has regularly contributed to the prestigious Concurrences journal from 2005 to 2024 in the column on unilateral practices. She contributed to the Liber Amicorum in honour of Prof. Laurence Idot, published in 2022. Anne has authored numerous publications.
In July 2024, she was appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Palais de Tokyo, one of the major Art Center in Europe, on the recommendation of the French Government. Since 2020, she is the Chair of the Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines (CEAAC), a Strasbourg-based contemporary art centre.