Alexandra Brown is an associate practising competition and EU law at Hogan Lovells’ London office. She has a broad range of EC and UK competition experience advising clients operating in a wide range of sectors, including general automotive, manufacturing, media and financial services. She is experienced in advising on the application of EC and UK competition law to various types of commercial agreements including both horizontal and vertical arrangements. In addition, she has experience of UK and EC merger regulation having worked on high profile transactions. She has also advised on the application of competition law to the activities of clients with a strong market presence and more generally on behavioural issues and commercial activities. Most recently Alexandra Brown has been involved in the successful appeal against the OFT’s decision concerning the setting of MasterCard’s interchange fees in the UK.
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Overview On 15 May 2007, nine days in advance of its statutory deadline of 25 May 2007, the Competition Commission (the "CC") published its findings in its market investigation into personal current banking services in Northern Ireland. The market investigation was a result of a reference (...)
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On 2 February 2007, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment upholding the British Horseracing Board’s appeal against the High Court’s judgment finding that BHB had abused its dominant position in (a) refusing to supply the relevant product (pre-race data) to an existing customer (Attheraces (...)
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Background GenzymeLimited ("Genzyme”) is the manufacturer of Ceredase and Cerezyme, drugs used in the treatment of Gaucher disease. Genzyme also provided home care services to administer its drugs. The home care services were initially subcontracted, firstly to Caremark and then to (...)
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Background On 31 August 2006, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) dismissed an appeal by Floe Telecom Limited (in administration) (“Floe”) against a decision of the Office of Communications (“OFCOM”) dated 28 June 2005 that Vodafone Limited (“Vodafone”) had not infringed section (...)
