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Matthew O'Regan
Work Department
Competition
Career
Call : 2015
Matthew has a broad-based practice, with extensive experience in all aspects of competition law, EU law, State aid and subsidy control, public procurement and economic regulation, including competition disputes, regulatory investigations, transactional matters and advisory work. He combines his technical expertise and experience to provide pragmatic, commercially-focused and solution-oriented strategic advice and representation.
Matthew acts as an advocate in competition-related proceedings (including disputes, appeals and judicial reviews) in the UK courts. He also represents and advises clients in all types of competition and regulatory investigations including in cartel, dominance and other investigations by the Competition and Markets Authority, other UK regulatory authorities and the European Commission. He advises clients on UK, EU and international merger control proceedings, the application of the State aid, subsidy control and procurement rules, and the application of competition law to a wide range of transactions, commercial agreements and business practices.
He has broad sector experience, advising clients from numerous sectors, including: oil and gas, energy, nuclear, transport, airports and aviation, aerospace and defence, chemicals, telecommunications and media, financial services, consumer and sports goods, food and drink, aluminium, mining and natural resources, packaging, sport, private equity and retail and wholesale distribution.
Matthew accepts instructions from solicitors, overseas lawyers and in-house legal departments on all types of matters. He also assists solicitors firms, whether by providing an additional resource to those with established competition practices, including during dawn raids, or by assisting those firms without their own competition law capability.
Matthew has recently joined the editorial team of Chitty on Contracts, published by Sweet and Maxwell. Chitty is the leading reference work on contract law in the Common law world. Now in its 34th edition, its two volumes contain full coverage of the law of contract as practiced in the United Kingdom. Matthew has responsibility for Chapter 45 of the 34th edition, which examines in detail the application of both UK and EU competition law to contracts
Languages
French
Memberships
- The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
- Member of the Brussels Bar (E-list) 2001 – 2011
- UK State Aid Law Association
- Competition Law Association
- Bar European Group
- Procurement Law Association
Education
- LLB (Hons.) (Nottingham) first class
- LLM (Amsterdam)
- Diploma in Legal Practice (Nottingham Trent)
- Admitted as a Solicitor 1997
- Solicitor-Advocate Higher Courts Civil Proceedings 2014
- University of Nottingham Exhibition 1991
- Reuben C Lipman Scholarship 1992
Leisure
Cricket, association football, skiing
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Commercial litigation
St John’s Chambers’ ‘excellent‘ commercial team offers its expertise to both businesses and individuals in relation to a wide range of disputes. John Dickinson ‘deals with difficult cases with ease’, including those involving local authority procurement claims, breaches of contract, restraint of trade, and fraud. In Capital Green Recycling v Bird, James Pearce-Smith represented the defendants in a significant claim for damages for misrepresentation and breach of warranty, brought by the overseas purchaser of shares in a waste recycling company. Matthew O’Regan specialises in competition disputes, while Charlie Newington-Bridges regularly displays a ‘superb mastery of company-commercial disputes‘, focusing on shareholder and partnership disputes, commercial contract disputes, claims relation to directors, and financial litigation. He recently acted for the first respondent in the High Court case of Duneau v Klimt Invest SA, which concerned the winding up of a listed company on the just and equitable ground of loss of substratum. Natasha Dzameh is a ‘confident advocate‘ who represents a wide range of clients, including financial institutions, international corporations, and individuals.