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EU-UK Spotlight: Renewables, trade, and the global supply chain
Leonor Catela
Associate Global Regulatory
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Leonor Catela is an associate in the Brussels ACER practice. Her experience focuses on competition law and life sciences.
Leonor’s professional experience includes work in private practice and public service. Before joining Hogan Lovells, she worked as an associate at international law firms in Brussels and Lisbon, advising clients on competition law matters such as merger control, antitrust investigations, and compliance.
She has worked with companies in the life sciences sector on regulatory and market access issues. She also served as a Legal Advisor at the Ministry of Health in the Portuguese Government, contributing to legal and policy matters in healthcare. Additionally, Leonor completed a traineeship at the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), where she gained experience in European judicial processes.
Representative experience
Catalent, Inc. on its $16.5 billion acquisition by Novo Holdings A/S, the holding and investment company for the Novo Nordisk Foundation.*
Alcon, Inc. on its acquisition of LumiThera, Inc., a medical device company focused on treating ocular diseases.*
Downtown Music Holdings on its acquisition by Virgin Music Group, part of Universal Music Group.*
NXP Semiconductors N.V. on its acquisition of TTTech Auto’s safety software platform.*
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals on the sale of its European Orladeyo (berotralstat) business to Neopharmed Gentili.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- Masters Degree in European Legal Studies, College of Europe, 2023
- LL.M. in Competition, Innovation and Trade Law, London School of Economics, 2022
- Undergraduate Degree in Law, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, 2017
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Portugal
- Brussels