Julia Wambach
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American Express
VP & Senior Counsel at American Express
November 2021 - Present • London, United Kingdom
In my current role as VP & Senior Counsel my team and I advise on a wide range of antitrust and payment systems regulatory matters.Director & Counsel at American Express
4 years 4 mth • June 2016 - October 2020 • London, United Kingdom
In my previous role at American Express I used to advise the company on a wide range of antitrust and payment systems regulatory matters. |-American Express & Harvard Certificate in Leadership Excellence (2018) |-Women@ - 30 in their 30s notable women competition professionals: recognition in the in-house category (2017)Directorate General Competition (DG COMP) - European Commission
Case Handler at Directorate General Competition (DG COMP) - European Commission
5 years 4 mth • February 2011 - June 2016 • Brussels, Belgium
During my tenure at the Commission’s antitrust and merger control branch – DG COMP, I handled high profile antitrust as well as merger cases in the fields of media, telecoms and tech. Throughout my tenure I have worked at the interface between competition law and sectoral regulation in the telecoms and media sectors.Education:
Higher Regional Court Offenburg (Germany)
2008 - 2010
Legal training to qualify as a lawyer (Rechtsreferendariat) with a focus on antitrust and corresponding seats at Linklaters LLP in Brussels and DG Competition of the European Commission Final exam (2. Staatesexamen) with a specialisation in EU law and public international law
College of Europe (Bruges)
2007 - 2008
LL.M. in European Law Master's Thesis "Fundamental social rights v. fundamental freedoms: a step beyond Schmidberger?" Member of the winning team of the European Law Moot Court 2007/2008
Universities of Freiburg and Bielefeld
2002 - 2007
German law degree (1. Staatsexamen) with a specialisation in EU law and public international law