Kaarli Eichhorn
Global Guide 2024
Foreign Expert : Competition: EU
Foreign Expert
About
Provided by Kaarli Eichhorn
Career
Kaarli Eichhorn has acted on a significant number of high-profile and politically sensitive merger and antitrust matters globally for more than 20 years. He frequently provides strategic advice to multi-national companies, conducts internal investigations, and designs comprehensive compliance and integrity systems. Kaarli also advises on broad aspects of EU internal market laws and legislative advocacy, foreign investment screening, and sanctions.
Kaarli is vice-chair of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU.
He leads Jones Day's Nordic Practice.
Prior to joining Jones Day, Kaarli was global executive counsel of competition law & policy at General Electric. During his 10-year tenure at GE he advised on hundreds of international transactions and led the merger review clearance processes with government agencies globally such as acquisitions of Alstom ($10.6 billion), Avio ($4.3 billion), Lufkin ($3.3 billion), and Dresser ($3 billion) and divestments of NBCU ($30 billion) and upward of $200 billion of GE Capital assets. He handled GE's counseling, training, guidance, internal investigations, and audits internationally and regularly handled matters related to cartel and abuse of dominance issues.
Chambers Review
Global
Brussels-based Kaarli Eichhorn is admitted to practice in Sweden and leads Jones Day's Nordic practice. He is experienced in advising Scandinavian clients on merger control matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is an excellent competition lawyer with a deep understanding of clients' needs. Based on his many years of in-house experience, he delivers concise, practical suggestions that can be implemented immediately."
"He is an excellent competition lawyer with a deep understanding of clients' needs. Based on his many years of in-house experience, he delivers concise, practical suggestions that can be implemented immediately."