Isabel Rooms
Europe Guide 2024
Up and Coming : Competition: EU
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Up and Coming
About
Provided by Isabel Rooms
Practice Areas
Isabel Rooms’ practice focuses on all aspects of EU and Belgian competition law, including merger control, abuse of dominance, cartel practices, compliance issues and State aid.
Isabel has comprehensive experience in advising clients on multijurisdictional transactions, including on complex remedy structures. She has represented clients with merger control and foreign investment filings across various European and international jurisdictions, with a particular focus on the European Commission and Belgian Competition Authority.
Isabel also regularly represents clients in antitrust investigations, including in case of dawn raids and on leniency/settlement questions.
Isabel advises clients from a wide variety of sectors, including healthcare, FMCG, energy, aviation, and basic industries. She also routinely advises private equity firms.
Career
Isabel joined the firm as a partner in 2022 from a major international law firm.
She holds the following degrees: LL.M. (King’s College London) and Master in Law (University of Ghent).
Professional Memberships
Bar admission: Belgium
Publications
- “Commission Consults on Notification Requirements and Process for EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation,” Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memo, February 9, 2023.
- “Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2021 – Belgium,” Kluwer Competition Law Blog, March 14, 2022.
Personal
Isabel is a native Dutch speaker and is fluent in English and French.
Chambers Review
Europe
Isabel Rooms exhibits an impressive list of sophisticated mandates that illustrate comprehensive skills and experience in the competition law sphere, particularly on multi-jurisdictional merger control matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Isabel Rooms is always very responsive and thorough in her advice."
"She is definitely brilliant in how to deal with cases. She is a good one."
"Isabel Rooms is always very responsive and thorough in her advice."
"She is definitely brilliant in how to deal with cases. She is a good one."