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James Ashe-Taylor

Alston & Bird (London), Alston & Bird (Brussels)

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James Ashe-Taylor is a partner at Alston & Bird in London. He focuses his practice on competition law at the European Union level and in the UK. He concentrates on merger control, state aid, and the antitrust aspects of joint ventures, distribution, and agency agreements. James has significant experience in European cartel investigations with a private U.S. litigation dimension and has represented companies and individuals in a number of recent prominent cases involving rubber chemicals, grocery retailing, marine hose, and air cargo. He has considerable knowledge of EU payments legislation, is a frequent speaker at FinTech conferences, and mentors startup companies in the FinTech sector. Before joining Alston & Bird, James served as partner-in-charge of the antitrust practices for both international and U.S. law firms and spent two years at JP Morgan Inc.

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James Ashe-Taylor The EU Commission launches a formal investigation into e-commerce

6 May 2015 127

European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy Is Storming The Border Walls In E-Commerce* The European Commission (“EC”) is taking aim at artificial restraints on cross-border online sales in the European Union with its launch of a formal investigation into e-commerce. The antitrust (...)

James Ashe-Taylor The UK Competition Authority decides to close its investigations following approval of the European interchange fees Regulation (MasterCard / Visa)

6 May 2015 364

UK Competition and Market Authority Shuts Down MasterCard and Visa Probes Following Approval of European Interchange Fees Regulation* The UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) announced on Wednesday that it is closing its investigations into MasterCard’s and Visa’s multilateral interchange (...)

James Ashe-Taylor The Chinese NDRC imposes its highest fine in Chinese antitrust history in an abuse of dominance case (Qualcomm)

9 February 2015 220

China’s Record $1 Billion Fine Against Qualcomm Could Signal A Tough New Antitrust Cop On The Block* China’s imposition of a nearly $1 billion fine on Qualcomm, the world’s largest supplier of smartphone chips, is noteworthy not just because it is a record-breaking antitrust fine for China, but (...)

James Ashe-Taylor The EU Commission fines a broker for facilitating Yen Libor cartels by serving as a communication channel and disseminating misleading information about expected rates (Icap)

4 February 2015 338

European Commission Fines London-Based Broker ICAP 14.9 Million Euros For Facilitating Yen Libor Cartels* The European Commission (“EC”) has fined London-based ICAP, the world’s largest broker of interest-rate swaps, for facilitating bank cartels in the market for Yen-denominated interest rate (...)

Ana Rojo Prada, James Ashe-Taylor The EU Commission imposes fines of nearly €94 million on four major banks for collusive behaviors (RBS / JPMorgan / UBS / Credit Suisse)

21 October 2014 248

European Commission Settles Two Swiss Franc-Related Derivatives Investigations* The European Commission has settled two cartel investigations and sanctioned four major banks in the Swiss Franc-related derivatives market, imposing total fines of approximately 94 million euros, for violations of (...)

James Ashe-Taylor The EU Commission hits telecoms with fines of 70 million euros for abusing the Slovak broadband market (Slovak Telecom)

15 October 2014 471

European Commission Hits Telecoms With Fines Of 70 Million Euros For Abusing Slovak Broadband Market* Co-written by Yulia Tosheva. The European Commission has signalled that it is not dialing down its scrutiny of the telecommunications sector by imposing fines totalling 70 million euros on (...)