20 CURSITOR STREET, LONDON, EC4A 1LT, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7831 9222
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Marc Israel
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Work Department
Corporate.
Position
Partner in the EU/competition group; experience includes Competition Commission inquiries into supermarkets and banking; UK merger investigations, including HMV/Waterstones/Ottaker’s, BSkyB/ITV (the first case involving ‘media public interest’ issues under the Enterprise Act) and Brightsolid/Friends Reunited; acting for the complainant in the Gaviscon case (2010), the first OFT fine for seven years for an abuse of dominance; European Commission experience includes cement and sodium chlorate cartels, and merger work, including Pernod Ricard/Allied Domecq and Pernod Ricard/Vin & Sprit; Competition Appeal Tribunal cases include IBA Health Ltd v OFT, first successful appeal against a merger clearance by the OFT, and Federation of Wholesale Distributors v OFT.
Career
Trained Slaughter and May; qualified 1997; Slaughter and May 1995-2001; Macfarlanes 2001 to date; partner 2004.
Languages
French.
Education
City of London Boys’ School; St John’s College, Cambridge.
Leisure
Skiing, theatre/cinema, cooking.
Practice Areas
EU and competition; Franchising
