Matthew, a former Solicitor, is a specialist competition and regulatory lawyer. He was Called to the Bar and joined St John’s Chambers in 2015, having previously been a Partner in the Competition Group of Burges Salmon. He has a strong international perspective, having practised for over a decade in the Brussels office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Matthew has a broad-based practice, with extensive experience in all aspects of competition law, EU law, State aid, public procurement and economic regulation, including competition disputes, regulatory investigations, transactional matters and advisory work. He combines his technical expertise and experience to provide pragmatic, commercially-focused and solution-oriented strategic advice and representation. Matthew acts as an advocate in competition-related proceedings (including disputes, appeals and judicial reviews) in the UK and EU courts. He also represents and advises clients in all types of competition and regulatory investigations including in cartel, dominance and other investigations by the Competition and Markets Authority, other UK regulatory authorities and the European Commission. He also advises clients on UK, EU and international merger control proceedings ; the application of the State aid and procurement rules ; and the application of competition law to a wide range of transactions, commercial agreements and business practices. He has broad sector experience, advising clients from numerous sectors, including : oil and gas, energy, nuclear, transport, airports and aviation, aerospace and defence, chemicals, TMT, financial services, consumer and sports goods, food and drink, aluminium, mining and natural resources, packaging, sport and private equity. Matthew accepts instructions from solicitors, overseas lawyers and in-house legal departments on all types of matters. He also assists solicitors firms, whether by providing an additional resource to those with established competition practices or by assisting those firms without their own competition law capability. Matthew speaks frequently at seminars and conferences and also writes widely on all aspects of competition and regulatory law. He is also a contributor to the Kluwer Competition Law Blog.
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United Kingdom : Consumer Rights Act 2015 introduces new procedures for competition litigation, including collective follow-on damages actions* On 1 October 2015, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (“CRA 2015”) entered into force. The CRA 2015 makes numerous changes to consumer rights laws in the (...)
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United Kingdom : Competition appeals – speak now or forever hold your peace ?* It is not uncommon, where a multi-party infringement of competition law has been established and sanctioned by a competition authority for some, but not all, of the addressees of the authority’s decision to appeal (...)
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United Kingdom : High Court provides guidance on application of limitation periods in damages actions* The High Court has recently provided guidance on the application of limitation periods in competition damages actions. In Arcadia v Visa, it ruled that a substantial part of the claimant’s (...)
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Restrictions by object : duck and elephant hunting with the Court of Justice* Inductive reasoning is sometimes explained by using either the ‘duck test’ (“if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”) or the ‘elephant test’ (“it is difficult (...)
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United Kingdom Merger Control : Recent Developments in the Failing Firm Defence* On 15 August 2014, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) approved Alliance Medical Group’s completed acquisition of IBA Molecular’s radioactive medical tracer business. Although IBA’s business was (...)
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United Kingdom : Merger Control Interim Enforcement Orders* Two unusual features of the United Kingdom’s merger control regime are that notification is voluntary and there is no ‘suspension’ obligation. This means that mergers can be – and routinely are – completed without notification to (...)
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Changes to the private litigation regime in the UK : are more collective damages actions on the way ?* Private damages litigation is an important complement to public enforcement of UK and EU competition law by the European Commission and national competition authorities (“NCAs”), such as (...)
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Changes to the private litigation regime in the UK : are more collective damages actions on the way ?* Private damages litigation is an important complement to public enforcement of UK and EU competition law by the European Commission and national competition authorities (“NCAs”), such as (...)
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United Kingdom : interim injunctions in competition litigation* Private competition litigation is continuing to develop in the United Kingdom. The courts and the Competition Appeal Tribunal are seeing an increase in the number and complexity of follow-on damages actions, often between (...)
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United Kingdom : interim injunctions in competition litigation* Private competition litigation is continuing to develop in the United Kingdom. The courts and the Competition Appeal Tribunal are seeing an increase in the number and complexity of follow-on damages actions, often between (...)
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Competition Appeal Tribunal rules that use of data rooms is lawful in market investigations, but criticises restrictive access conditions* In competition investigations, competition authorities receive substantial amounts of confidential business information, some of which will be (...)
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United Kingdom : interim injunctions in competition litigation* Private competition litigation is continuing to develop in the United Kingdom. The courts and the Competition Appeal Tribunal are seeing an increase in the number and complexity of follow-on damages actions, often between (...)
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UPDATE : Stericycle/Ecowaste merger : Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects appeal against remedies* An earlier post considered the Competition Commission’s (“CC”) prohibition of Stericycle’s completed acquisition of a competitor, Ecowaste Southwest. Having found that the merger would have (...)
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Competition Commission prohibition of completed merger a warning to companies that do not wait for UK merger clearance* Unlike in most countries, in the United Kingdom, the notification of mergers is voluntary and there is no waiting period that must expire before a merger can be completed. (...)
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Cette rubrique Livres recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes (...)
