Jarleth Burke joined Digicel Group in October 2022. He previously worked as barrister from 2015 to 2022. Prior to that, Jarleth Burke was a researcher at the London School of Economics from 2011 to 2015. From 2002 to 2011 he was partner with Jones Day (London). He represented businesses in the telecommunications, energy, broadcasting, aviation, and financial services sectors on competition issues before the EU, UK, and Irish competition agencies. He also advises extensively in relation to telecommunications regulation. Jarleth frequently advises on multijurisdictional merger filings before the European Commission, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the United Kingdom, and the Competition Authority in Ireland. In 2008, he represented Goodrich Corporation in its aircraft engine control system joint venture with Rolls Royce and ISP in its sale of its alginate business to FMC, both of which were approved by the OFT. In recent years Jarleth Burke has also acted for WL Ross & Co. in respect of merger filings before the European Commission relating to automotive interiors. From 1994 to 2000, Jarleth was general counsel with ESAT Telecom, a NASDAQ-listed telecommunications operator, where he was responsible for several cases before the European Commission. Subsequently, he worked as head of legal affairs at the Commission for Aviation Regulation in Ireland. There he advised on legal aspects of economic regulation, including the adoption of a system of price caps for airport landing charges. Jarleth is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as a barrister in Ireland. He has spoken at many international conferences on competition law and telecommunications regulation. He is also the Irish correspondent for the Computer & Telecommunications Law Review. Jarleth also is involved in charitable and political work in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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On 10 August 2010, the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) referred Zipcar‘s already-completed acquisition of Zipcar to the UK Competition Commission (CC) for an in-depth investigation. Zipcar and Zipcar now must suspend further integration of their businesses, pending the outcome of the CC’s (...)
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On 26 May 2010, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal published an appeal by mobile operator O2 against the Office of Communications (OFCOM), the UK telecoms and media regulator, challenging OFCOM‘s refusal to allow deployment of 3G services in 900 Mhz frequencies. In a case likely to have (...)
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On 30 April 2010, the Office of Fair Trading (« OFT ») announced it was dropping a number of allegations in its dairy cartel investigation. The OFT conceded there was insufficient evidence of antitrust infringement in the information exchanges it had been investigating since 2003. The OFT (...)
