Sam MacMahon Baldwin

Partner

PRACTICE AREAS

As a dual-qualified attorney in Denmark (Advokat) & Hungary (Ügyvéd), Sam Baldwin is a seasoned EU & competition law practitioner with extensive expertise in advising businesses on all EU & antitrust matters.

 

Within antitrust, he advises on how to navigate the rules on anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, merger control, and State aid. He is regularly instructed in economics heavy antitrust matters including pricing abuse cases and in-depth merger investigations.

 

As an expert in EU law, he advises businesses on investment protection under the EU’s Internal Market freedoms and Charter on Fundamental Rights, i.e. Freedom of establishment and Free movement of goods, services & capital.  He is also active in human rights advocacy under the European Convention on Human Rights and with the Strasbourg Court.

 

He has an impressive track-record of experience before national competition authorities and the European Commission including in high profile antitrust, merger, State aid, and Internal Market cases. He has represented companies in national court proceedings as well as at the EU courts in Luxembourg; e.g. case C-255/16, Falbert and T-65/06 & C-238/12 P, FLSmidth.

 

He is recognised by Global Competition Review and Who’s Who Legal as a leading individual in competition law. Since 2020, the European Commission has selected him to serve as Non-Governmental Advisor to the EU’s antitrust enforcer, DG Competition, for the International Competition Network.

 

He is the founder of the network Young Competition Law Professionals and member of the panel of permanent & featured blog contributors at Kluwer Competition Law Blog where he regularly blogs about topical issues and new tendencies within EU antitrust.

 

He is native in English as well as Danish.

Rankings:

 

  • Who’s Who Legal & Global Competition Review, 2024, Competition (Individual ranking): Leading Individual

 

  • Legal500, 2018 – 2024, Competition (Team): Tier 2
  • Legal500, 2024, Competition (Individual ranking): Rising Star

 

  • Legal500, 2024, TMT (Team): Tier 2

Bar Memberships:

  • Admitted to the Danish Bar (2013)
  • Registered European Lawyer at the Budapest Bar (2018)
  • Budapest Bar Association (2022)

 

Appointments / positions of trust:

  • Selected by the European Commission to be Non-Governmental Advisor to DG Competition for the International Competition Network ICN.
  • Founder of the network Young Competition Law Professionals
  • Master of Laws at the University of Copenhagen (2010)

H-1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 16-17.

+36 (1) 472 3000

 

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