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Working with clients on time sensitive and business critical problems motivates me. I enjoy developing pragmatic and innovative solutions to complex legal issues. I have extensive experience before the UK authorities, the European Commission and the UK courts. My sectoral focus is in life sciences, consumer goods and retail distribution and finance. I am dual qualified as a solicitor and as a German Rechtsanwalt and so will continue to hold rights of audience before the European courts and institutions post-Brexit.Selected disclosable experience includes the following:Merger Control and FDI Reviews• Scottish & Newcastle (now Heineken) in its joint venture with Kuehne & Nagel (EU)• Cirrus/Wolfson Microelectronics (UK)• CTrip/SkyScanner (UK)• Boston Scientific/BTG (UK)• Bertelsmann-Penguin Random House/Simon&Schuster (UK and Rest of World)• Thermo Fisher/PPD (FDI ex-US)• AT&T-WarnerMedia spin-off to Discovery (EU, UK, Rest of World and FDI)Restrictive Agreements • Paroxetine (UK investigation - no grounds for action) - Reverse Payment Patent Settlement• Servier (Perindopril) (EU investigation) - Reverse Payment Patent Settlement• Cephalon (Modafinil) (EU investigation) - Reverse Payment Patent Settlement• Sports Bras (UK investigation - no grounds for action) - Vertical Pricing• A Light Fittings Reseller (UK investigation) - Vertical Pricing• A pharma company (UK investigation) - restrictive agreement; case closed without infringement finding Dominance/monopolisation• Thus (margin squeeze)• Mesren (pricing and marketing practices)• Gaviscon (product withdrawal)• Phenytoin (pricing case)• Albion Water v Welsh Water (margin squeeze)• Lothian Buses v BAA (refusal to supply)• Dahabshiil v Barclays (refusal to supply)Contentious• Albion Water v Welsh Water (follow-on damages)• Lothian Buses v BAA (interim injunction)• John Lewis v OFT (judicial review))• Dahabshiil v Barclays (interim injunction)• Scottish & Newcastle, Diageo, AB Inbev v DAF and others (follow-on damages in the NL court)• Morrisons v DAF and others (follow-on damages in the UK CAT)General Advisory• NLF trustees on competition law implications in the sale of British Energy to EdF • Mazars LLP as EU monitoring trustee in respect of LBG’s spin-off of TSB

Listed skills include Competition Law, Legal Advice, Joint Ventures, Mergers And Acquisitions, and 25 others.