Jessica Bracker

Jessica is a Belgian qualified lawyer. She advises on all aspects of competition law (including cartel, abuse of dominance, and merger control) and EU/ UK State aid laws. She also specialises in FSR.

Jessica has experience in dealing with investigations and notifications before the European Commission and national competition authorities. She also advises several clients on an ongoing basis on antitrust compliance issues.

She has extensive experience in litigation before EU and national Courts. For instance, she successfully represented Luxembourg in the ECJ appeals on the highly contentious tax rulings State aid cases concerning Fiat, Engie and Amazon. She was also part of the teams successfully representing Tate & Lyle Sugars before the UK High Court in the first post Brexit State aid litigation and representing Bank of America in the EGB cartel investigation and litigation before the General Court.

Her expertise spans across multiple sectors, with a particular emphasis on energy and infrastructure, media, packaging and financial services. Key energy mandates include advising the UK government and Great British Nuclear on subsidy control aspects of UK flagship projects for the net zero transition (including the development of CCUS and Small Modular Reactors), a beneficiary of State aid in the context of a hydrogen IPCEI notification, an energy company on antitrust compliance relating to a tender for wind farm capacity.

Jessica is teaching State aid law at the University of Strasbourg.

Before joining Ashurst, she worked as a trainee in the State aid team of the European Commission's legal service.