The Legal 500

Position

Barrister specialising in general EU law, UK and EU competition law, public and administrative law, general commercial litigation. Cases include: (in the UK Courts) Boake Allen v Commissioners of Inland Revenue; Pirelli v Commissioners of Inland Revenue; adidas v Draper and others; DMG v Commissioners of Inland Revenue; H3G v 02 et al; Virgin Media v BSkyB; Generics v Synaptech; Vodafone 2 v HM Revenue & Customs; National Grid v ABB et al; Test Claimants in the FII Group Litigation v Commrs of Inland Revenue; Emerald v British Airways (in the Competition Appeal Tribunal) IBA v OFT; Umbro v OFT; Mastercard v OFT; BT and H3G v Ofcom; Vodafone v Ofcom; Barclays v Competition Commission; Bid rigging appeals; Ryanair v OFT; (in the European Court) Case T-74/00 and C-39/03 P Artegodan v Commission; Case T-210/01 GE v Commission; Case C-336/03 easyCar v OFT; Case T-289/03 BUPA v Commission; Case T-328/03 02 v Commission; Case T-201/04 Microsoft v Commission; Case C-527/07 Generics (UK) Ltd; Case C-279/08 P Commission v Netherlands; Case C-297/08 Commission v Italy; Case T-128/09 Meridiana v Commission; Case C-427/09 Generics; Case T-75.10 Embraer v Commission.

Career

Called 1998, Inner Temple; barrister; member of B Panel to The Crown. Published articles include ‘State Regulation of the Market and EC Competition Rules: Articles 85 and 86 Compared’ (1997) ECLR 283; ‘State Aids and General Measures’ (1997) 17 YEL 269; ‘Differential Taxes, State Aids and the Lunn Poly Case’ (1999) ECLR 384; chapters in ‘Working with Technology, Law and Practice’ ed Pierce and Purvis (2001); ‘The Substantive Test for Prohibition of a Merger: did GE/Honeywell pass the test’ (2002) 17 ‘Eurolawyer’ 12; ‘The Concept of State Aid -The Developing Jurisprudence in the European and UK Courts’ (2003) ECLR 54; casenote on British Airways case (Autumn 2007) ‘Competition Policy International’ 227; Tying after Microsoft: One step forward and Two steps back’ (2008) Competition Policy International 65. Published books include ‘European Community Law of State Aids’ (2009); chapter on ‘State Aids in the English Courts – Definition and other Problems’ in ‘The Law of State Aid in the European Union’ eds Biondi, Eeckhout and Flynn (2004); state aid section in ‘Law of the European Union’ encyclopaedia eds Vaughan and Robertson (2007, 2011).

Languages

German, French and Italian.

Member

Bar European Group.

Education

Frome Community College; Merton College, Oxford (1996 MA Law with Law Studies in Europe); University of Konstanz (1994-95); European University Institute, Florence (1997 LLM European Law).

Leisure

Outdoor sports, music.

Practice Areas

Administrative and public law; EU and competition; Telecommunications