Caroline Medina is Global Competition Law Legal Director at Alstom since November 2019. She advises Alstom on all aspects of competition law and handles complex merger filings, investigations and litigation. Prior to joining Alstom, she was General Counsel for Whirlpool France, Whirlpool Benelux, and KitchenAid EMEA between 2015 and 2019. She was previously an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb in the Paris office between 2008 and 2015, and at CMS Francis Lefebvre from 2004 to 2008, where her practice focused on EU and French competition law. She has represented clients in a wide range of industries before the European Commission and the French Competition Authority in numerous antitrust investigations and merger control cases, and has been involved in litigation before EU and French courts. Her experience also covers advice and litigation regarding compatibility of French regulations with EU law (sectors opening up to competition ; lobbying with national and European institutions ; litigation against French regulations before French courts and the European Court of Justice ). She graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg in 1999, received a post-graduate degree from the University of Paris (Panthéon-Assas) in 2002 and an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe (Bruges) in 2003.
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Au cours des dix dernières années, la France a utilisé le plus souvent avec succès l’arrêt Altmark, qui permet aux Etats membres de financer des SIEG sans notification préalable à la Commission européenne sous certaines conditions, afin de mettre en place des mécanismes de financement de SIEG (...)
