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Simon Neill is Assistant General Counsel at Johnson & Johnson. He has been at J&J since 2001; prior to joining J&J he was in private practice at Coudert Brothers in Brussels and in London. At J&J he combines two main roles: as EMEA legal counsel for one of J&J’s largest medical devices businesses and as a competition lawyer in the Medical Devices & Diagnostics group in EMEA. He also has experience in J&J’s Pharmaceutical and Consumer business groups. In his role as business lawyer Simon is involved in all areas of legal advice on strategic, commercial and corporate matters as well as compliance including corruption, bribery and competition. In his role as principal competition lawyer, Simon has overall responsibility for coordinating a broad range of competition work across the MD&D group in EMEA, including merger notifications, litigation and risk management in commercial operations, including competition compliance programmes.

Simon manages a team of J&J lawyers across several countries in Europe and he is a member of a number of management teams and committees that focus on developing and nurturing talent in the J&J organization.