Alice Wallace-Wright
Partner Global Regulatory
London
Dublin
Languages
English, French
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Overview
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Credentials
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Legal 500Highly knowledgeable and commercially astute
Alice is a partner who advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition laws across a wide variety of business sectors, with a particular focus on telecoms, media, technology and life sciences.
Alice’s practice spans strategic, advisory, transactional, investigations and contentious contexts. She is a trusted advisor to many institutional clients, bringing her "excellent strategic judgment" to bear in advising on the impact of competition law on commercial strategy as well as on the design and implementation of competition compliance programmes. She also advises clients in contentious contexts – on competition investigations and damages actions arising out of allegations of anti-competitive conduct. Alice's transactional practice covers advice to clients on the merger control and FDI aspects of transactions, from filing assessments, contractual considerations and how this feeds deal strategy.
Legal 500Excellent strategic judgment
Representative experience
Advising Vodafone on the competition law aspects of its European distribution arrangements and other contentious and non-contentious matters.
Representing Vodafone Group and UK in their successful defence of the Phones 4u UK standalone competition claim.
Advising pharmaceutical clients on litigation and settlement strategy in the context of patent disputes.
Advising a leading pharmaceutical company on the merger control and FDI assessment of global transactions (acquisitions and disposals).
Advising Reach plc (formerly Trinity Mirror) in relation to transactions.
Advising a leading tech company in establishing and running its European distribution network.
Advising real estate clients in relation to the competition law aspects of their land agreements and abuse of dominance.
Advising a shipping company in relation to a European Commission investigation into price signalling.
Advising a UK bank in relation to the UK Competition and Markets Authority investigation into the retail banking market.
Advising Outokumpu Oyj in relation to High Court proceedings arising from the copper tubes cartels.
Advising Liberty Global on the merger control aspects of its acquisition of Virgin Media, including obtaining EC merger clearance.
Credentials
- PGDip, EU Competition Law, King's College London, 2014
- LPC, BPP University Law School, 2009
- M.A., University of Cambridge, 2008
- Solicitor, England and Wales
- Solicitor, Republic of Ireland
- International Bar Association - Antitrust Committee
- Law Society Competition Section
- Law Society of England and Wales
- Law Society of Ireland