Aidan Forde
Associate
Brussels

Aidan Forde
Associate
Brussels
Contact details
Aidan is an Irish lawyer advising on all aspects of EU competition law and litigation across a broad range of sectors.
Aidan’s experience includes assisting clients in complex and high profile cartel, abuse of dominance and merger investigations and litigation before the European Commission, various international regulators and courts.
Aidan has represented clients from a wide array of industries, such as music licensing, high-tech, transport, media and consumer goods.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as a Barrister-at-Law, Ireland, July 2019
Registered with the Brussels Bar (E-List), September 2019
Academic
Barrister-at-Law, The Honorable Society of King's Inns, 2019
LL.M. (Commercial), University of Cambridge, 2015
BCL (International) (first class), University College Dublin, 2014
International exchange, DePaul University College of Law Chicago, 2013

Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as a Barrister-at-Law, Ireland, July 2019
Registered with the Brussels Bar (E-List), September 2019
Academic
Barrister-at-Law, The Honorable Society of King's Inns, 2019
LL.M. (Commercial), University of Cambridge, 2015
BCL (International) (first class), University College Dublin, 2014
International exchange, DePaul University College of Law Chicago, 2013
Published work
- Infineon v European Commission: Reducing Cartel Fines in Light of Limited Participation, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Volume 11, Issue 10, December 202, Pages 592-594
- Toshiba v European Commission: Re-adopting Cartel Decisions for Error in Calculating Fines, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 34-36
- The Conceptual Relationship between Privacy and Data Protection, Cambridge Law Review Issue 1, 2016, Pages 135-149