Michael P Grenfell
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Work Department
Antitrust, competition and regulation.
Position
Partner specialising in competition, merger control, regulatory, administrative/public law and EU law; has acted in a wide range of cases raising competition, EU and regulatory issues including, in the past year alone: BMW; Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Constellation (world’s leading wine producer); Etisalat (Emirates Telecoms); France Telecom; and PayPoint (UK bill payments provider). He is legal adviser to two of the UK sector regulators, the ORR (rail) and Ofwat (water).
Career
Trained Linklaters; qualified 1988; solicitor competition and EU department, Norton Rose 1991; seconded to department of trade and industry competition policy division 1993-94; partner Norton Rose 1998; co-author ‘Merger Control in the United Kingdom and European Union’, by R Celli and M Grenfell (Kluwer Law International, 1997); ‘Coleman and Grenfell on The Competition Act 1998: Law and Practice’ (Oxford University Press 1999, updated 2001).
Languages
French.
Education
Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, Elstree; Peterhouse, Cambridge (1985 MA Hons); London School of Economics (1992 PhD).
Practice Areas
EU and competition; Telecommunications; Transport - rail
