Eamonn Doran
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Work Department
Competition.
Position
Specialist in UK and EC merger control and antitrust regulation. Work has included clients from a number of sectors – banking, brewing, general insurance, health insurance, chemicals, publishing, manufacturing – and given him significant experience in dealing with competition authorities in London and Brussels. Transactions of significance where substantial involvement can be disclosed have included: Compagnie Générale de Géophysique – UK merger control aspects of acquisition of competitor, particularly giving rise to vertical issues; Swiss Re – advising on the EU merger control issues concerning the acquisition of GE UK Life Insurance business; Schneider Electric SA – advising on the UK merger control aspects of its purchase of GET Group Plc, a UK-based designer, developer and distributor of industrial electrical products; Noble Group – advising on a multi-jurisdictional merger control analysis (EU, member states and global filing requirements) arising from the acquisition of Oxyde Chemicals, a petrochemicals manufacturing and trading company; Astrazeneca – acquisition of Cambridge Antibodies; DSG International – acquisitions of businesses in Italy, Greece, UK, and France – both EU and UK merger control; Royal Bank of Scotland – significant banking competition work, including two Competition Commission investigations into store cards (2004-06) and the NI personal current account market (2004-07), advising on the Payment Systems Task Force, European sector reviews into banking and business insurance and advising on the OFT’s review of credit card and current account charges and advising (2007) on the market investigation into payment protection insurance by the Competition Commission; Royal Bank of Scotland Group – acquisitions under UK and EU law, including handling possible reference back to Irish authorities.
Career
Articled clerk Linklaters 1986-88; assistant solicitor, including two years in Brussels office 1988-96; partner London 1996; head of competition/antitrust 2009 to date.
Education
Magdalen College, Oxford (1985; Exhibition to read law; BA Law; 1990 MA); College of Law, Guildford (1986 Law Society Finals).
Practice Areas
EU and competition
