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Bernardine Adkins

+44 (0)370 733 0649 bernardine.adkins@gowlingwlg.com

Work Department

Antitrust.

Position

Partner specialising in EU/competition work, with particular emphasis on contentious aspects, notably complaints (both defending and commencing before the European Commission and the Competition and Markets Authority) and cartels/abuse of dominant position investigations by the European Commission and the Competition and Markets Authority.

Career

Pupillage 4 Essex Court; European Law Chambers; Stagiare in DG1V, European Commission; part time, Citizen’s European Advisory Service, EU Commission London 1992-94; assistant solicitor, EC/competition department, Watson Farley & Williams 1989-91; assistant solicitor, EC/competition department, SJ Berwin & Co 1991-94; head of Brussels office, SJ Berwin & Co 1994-96; associate, business law department, Dechert Price & Rhoads, Brussels, 1996-99; partner Wragge & Co 1999; Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, partner, 2014. Publications of note include: ‘Air Transport and EC Competition Law (Sweet and Maxwell 1994); ‘Joint Ventures in the European Community’ (Butterworths 1997); ‘Private Antitrust Litigation (Thomson Reuters 2013); UK chapter of ‘Merger Control’ (Thomson Reuters 2014).

Languages

French, German.

Memberships

European Air Transport Forum; Solicitors European Group; Brussels Bar (Liste E); member of the Advisory Board of the Competition Law Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law; EU Committee, American Chamber of Commerce (Brussels).

Education

Bristol University (1985 LLB Hons); College d’Europe, Bruges (1986 EU Law – Jean Monnet scholar); Council of Legal Education (1987).

Leisure

Art, skiing.