B.A. and LL.B. (Hons), Australian National University | LL.M., University of Hamburg
Anne MacGregor is a partner at Gecić Law. She has over thirty years of experience in EU law, policy, advocacy, and journalism, having begun her career in Brussels in 1993. Her expertise spans a broad range of competition/antitrust, trade, and regulatory matters. She deeply understands the intricacies of the EU institutions, policy, and legislative processes, and is a trusted legal strategist and communicator for high-stakes, cross-border matters.
Anne augments the solutions she can deliver for clients as a lawyer with the complementary skills she acquired as an investigative journalist and a strategic communications advisor. Her multidisciplinary problem-solving approach—combining law, policy, and communications—means clients can benefit from holistic and creative solutions, whatever the challenge.
Anne’s practice includes EU and UK competition law, merger control, state aid, antitrust investigations, foreign subsidies, FDI, trade, energy, enlargement issues, and broader regulatory and compliance frameworks. She has advised various entities, including multinational corporations, NGOs, and governments. Her experience includes acting for clients before the European Commission, the EU General Court, and the European Court of Justice, as well as national regulators and courts.
Anne has worked for several top-tier international law firms in Brussels and Washington, DC since 1994. Stepping out of legal practice in 2007, she established and led the merger control reporting team at MLex, before returning to the law. She later left her role as a partner at the U.S. law firm Dechert in 2018 to open a Brussels bureau for the Washington, D.C.-based antitrust investigative news service The Capitol Forum. Then she transitioned to the strategic communications practice of FTI Consulting in Brussels, where she developed her skills in litigation communications, PR, and lobbying on various policy initiatives and legal matters in the EU and the UK.
Anne has published widely on various EU competition, trade, and regulatory topics over many years and serves on the editorial board of the Sweet & Maxwell journal International Trade Law & Regulation. She has also lectured on EU competition law at the O.P. Jindal Global University in India and tutored LL.M. students at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for several years.
She served for several years as a board member and continues to support the independent, award-winning media literacy NGO Lie Detectors, whose remit is to counter the corrosive effect of online disinformation and online polarization on democracy.
Alongside her professional commitments, Anne also founded and led a volunteer-run advocacy organization for the Australian diaspora in 2000, which over the following decade achieved significant amendments to Australian citizenship legislation, ensuring that Australians abroad who acquire another citizenship no longer automatically forfeit their Australian citizenship, and then putting in place legislative fixes enabling many former Australians and their overseas-born children to become Australian citizens again. Anne provided hundreds of expatriate Australians with one-on-one pro bono legal advice on their citizenship status as part of that work.
Anne originally qualified as a barrister in the Australian state of New South Wales, and then as a barrister and solicitor in the Australian Capital Territory. She is also admitted as a solicitor in Ireland and England & Wales. Anne has additionally been an attorney in New York since 2001. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the Australian National University in Canberra, and an LL.M. from the University of Hamburg. She speaks English, German, some French, and Dutch.
