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Anne is widely acknowledged for her leading expertise in competition law. She advises on cartels, abuse of dominant position, vertical restraints and merger control, from the administrative investigation stage to the procedure before domestic and EU jurisdictions, as well as antitrust follow-on actions. Anne has been ranked individually in Band 1 in Chambers for many years, which in 2025 stated: "Anne Wachsmann is a favourite choice of counsel among multinational and local corporates for advice on merger control. She also has impressive experience across the life-cycle of behavioural mandates, representing clients in dawn raids, investigations and follow-on damages claims." She is featured in the Hall of Fame of Legal500 EMEA 2025, which stated that “Anne Wachsmann has become one of, if not the most respected and experienced antitrust lawyers in France.” At the end of 2023, she was ranked among the Top 20 Lawyers to Follow on LinkedIn by LJA. In 2021, she appeared on the prestigious Women in Antitrust list published by Global Competition Review (GCR). She was twice named European Competition Lawyer of the Year in 2014 and 2018 at the Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards. Earlier in her career, Anne was listed twice in GCR’s Top 40 Under 40 Antitrust Lawyers. Anne is widely acknowledged for her leading expertise in competition law. She advises on cartels, abuse of dominant position, vertical restraints and merger control, from the administrative investigation stage to the procedure before domestic and EU jurisdictions, as well as antitrust follow-on actions. Anne’s experience spans many sectors, notably the automotive and pharmaceutical sectors. Anne co-leads the firm’s consumer sector. She is the President of the Linklaters Foundation which was launched in 2015. Earlier in her career, Anne was based in Brussels, where she gained significant insight into the operation of the European Commission and developed extensive contacts with competition regulators. She has been a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges (her alma mater), delivering a 25-hour seminar on European merger control since 2017.
