Elaine Gibson-bolton
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EU and competition in both London and Brussels.
Position
EU, competition and regulatory law with a particular expertise in regulated industries such as energy, transport, media and communications. Regularly represents clients before the European Commission, Competition Commission, OFT, utility regulators and the national and European Courts. Elaine heads SJ Berwin’s energy and natural resources group. She advises on a wide range of energy-related matters, including gas and electricity liberalisation. She is also heavily involved in advising on the application of EU and UK competition law and regulation to the air transport sector. Elaine advises widely on global and European cartels and has extensive experience advising on other proactive and reactive behavioural matters. She also has an active merger practice, having developed a particular expertise in the application of the EC Merger Regulation and domestic merger provisions to complex private equity transactions, advising a range of private equity houses, funds and industry trade associations and investors in close conjunction with the firm’s private equity group.
Career
Trained Clifford Harris & Co; qualified 1987; Holman, Fenwick & Willan 1987-89; Freshfields, London and Brussels 1989-93; SJ Berwin 1993 to date; partner 1997. Holder of ‘Legal Business Competition Team of the Year’ 2000, for successfully challenging Ofgem on behalf of US electricity generators AES before the Competition Commission in their wholesale electricity pricing investigation. Publications: co-writer of two-volume loose-leaf service ‘Competition Law of the UK’ (Juris Publishing 1999 ed); subsidiary ‘National Courts and EC Competition Matters’; ‘GATT – The Perspective from Brussels’; ‘The Double Whammy’ for Recording Artists Contracts; Water Bulletin ‘Gas Lights the Way’; EVCA article: ‘How Does EU Merger Regulation Influence Private Equity’ published in ‘PLC Cross-border Private Equity Handbook’ 2005/06.
Languages
French; some Dutch and German.
Member
Institute for Advanced Legal Studies; Law Society’s ?European Group; Freeman of the City of London Solicitors’ ?Livery Company; European Aviation Association; founder, Women ?in Media.
Education
University of Reading (1983 LLB Hons); University of Amsterdam (1984 Postgraduate Diploma in European Integration); College of Law.
Leisure
Foreign travel, sports, film, music.
Practice Areas
EU and competition; Energy and natural resources
