James Aitken
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)
Partner
James Aitken is a partner in the Antitrust, Competition and Trade Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Based in London, he has wide experience advising clients on behavioural antitrust investigations, and on obtaining merger clearances, before the European Commission, UK Office of Fair Trading and other competition authorities in Europe and worldwide. He has particular expertise in the financial services and media and technology sectors. From 2004 to 2006 James was a ‘Référendaire’ (legal assistant) to the President of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal where he was involved in leading UK antitrust litigation cases covering abuse of dominance, cartels, cooperative agreements, judicial review of merger control decisions and the first UK follow-on damages cases. James was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow and qualified as a Solicitor in 2000.
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)
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The European Commission (EC) has published guidance on its new policy to encourage and accept referral requests from Member States under Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR) even where transactions do not meet the national merger control thresholds of the referring Member States (see (...)
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On 13 March 2019, the UK’s Digital Competition Expert Panel, led by advisor to former US President Barack Obama, Professor Jason Furman, released its report setting out its proposed changes for effective regulation of the digital economy (the Report). UK Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, who (...)
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The General Court has given eight judgments on a Commission fining decision concerning patent settlements entered into by Servier and five competitor producers of generic drugs, reducing the fines from a total of € 428 million to € 315 million. The Court broadly upheld the fines based on Article (...)
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Exclusivity rebates are used in markets ranging from postal deliveries through ice cream to computer processors and are normally regarded as beneficial to consumers. However, when applied by dominant companies such rebates could potentially entrench an existing market position and have been (...)
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Interview réalisée par James Aitken, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s, Londres. 1. You have a unique professional background in the European context, having been an antitrust partner in a leading firm in Brussels, Dusseldorf, and London, a senior official in the Competition Cabinet in the (...)
