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Competition Law: Litigation

London (Firms)

6 Years Ranked

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Provided by Sophie Lawrance

UK

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Sophie specialises in EU and UK competition law and litigation. She has a particular interest in working with businesses in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, and in relation to the competition issues that arise in connection with standardised technology. Her practice spans all competition issues, but has a particular focus on litigation and investigations.

Sophie has significant experience of competition litigation in the UK courts. She has been involved both in pure competition law actions, acting for both claimants and defendants, and in several substantial pieces of patent litigation in which competition defences have been raised. Sophie has market-leading experience of cases involving FRAND licensing obligations, acting for both implementers and patentees. Alongside this, Sophie’s case load to date has included defending applications for interim injunctive relief, handling mixed stand-alone/follow-on damages claims, raising and defending competition issues arising from the seeking of remedies in IP cases and claims arising from IP licences.

Some of Sophie’s recent experience includes:

- Acting for Google in long-running private damages litigation.

- Acting for Panasonic in UK litigation seek a FRAND licence.

- Successfully defended Morningside Pharmaceuticals from the dawn raid onwards in a four-year CMA investigation.

Alongside her litigation case-load, Sophie handles competition authority investigations at both EU and national level, including in dawn raid situations. A recent focus has been on CMA investigations into the UK generics sector. Issues on which she has advised in this context include both substantive competition law and procedural issues, such as legal professional privilege, as well as dealing with competition director disqualification cases which are now a focus for the UK competition regulator.

Sophie is Vice Chair (Competition) of the Competition Law Association (CLA) Committee. She regularly contributes feedback on competition policy issues, as well as speaking at conferences and writing on competition law issues in journals and blogs. She also teaches the competition law module on the University of Oxford Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice course.

Career

MA French and German

University of Cambridge · PhD German Literature, University of Cambridge

Postgraduate Diploma in Competition Law, KCL

Qualified 2004

Partner 2016

Admitted in Republic of Ireland (non-practising)

Advocaat bij de Balie te Brussel

Publications

Biotech Review of the Year

Chambers Review

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Competition Law: Litigation - London (Firms)
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Band 2

Sophie Lawrance defends high-profile clients against allegations of abuse of dominance. She also has experience acting for interested third parties on appeals against authority decisions. She has a number of clients from the technology and pharmaceutical sectors.

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