Profile: Stephen O Spinks
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Law Firm: | Sidley Austin LLP |
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Sidley Austin LLP Square de Meeûs, 35 B-1000 |
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| City: | Brussels | |
| Country: | Belgium | |
| Tel: | +32 2 504 6400 | |
| Fax: | +32 2 504 6401 | |
| Email: | sspinks@sidley.com |
Regulatory Communications
Biography: Regulatory Communications
Stephen Spinks is a partner in Sidley's Brussels office, where he focuses on EU competition, communications and trade law.Mr Spinks has practised European competition and regulatory law in Brussels since 1979. He has extensive experience in the application of EU competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, and antitrust counselling on a broad variety of commercial practices including horizontal cooperation agreements, licensing and distribution practices. He also has wide experience in EU anti-dumping proceedings involving industrial products, consumer electronics and household appliances.
Mr Spinks has advised clients in numerous industries and business sectors, including telecommunications services and equipment, media, Internet, satellite services, consumer electronics, household appliances, automobiles, industrial vehicles, paper, forest products, minerals, medical equipment, heavy machinery, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and agrochemicals.
Mr Spinks is a member of the faculty of the Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union and a member of the Board of Advisers of the Dean Rusk Center for International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies at the University of Georgia School of Law. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences on EU competition and merger control law.
His publications include 'Financial services: legal developments in EU competition law' in European Single Financial Market 2002/2003 (co-author); 'Telecom mergers, acquisitions and alliances' in International Telecoms Review (co-author, 2002); 'Multi-company competition' in Doing Business in the European Union, International Law Office (2002); Chapter 8 'Distribution' in Competition Law of the European Community 2nd Edition (Valentine Korah, General Editor) Matthew Bender & Company / LexisNexis (co-author, 2001); 'Exclusive Dealing, Discrimination and Discounts Under EC Competition Law' in 67 Antitrust Law Journal 641 (2000); and 'Telecom mergers, acquisitions and alliances' in International Telecoms Review (co-author, 2000).
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
Competition
Biography: Competition
Stephen Spinks is a partner in Sidley's Brussels office, where he focuses on EU competition, communications and trade law.Mr Spinks has practised European competition and regulatory law in Brussels since 1979. He has extensive experience in the application of EU competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, and antitrust counselling on a broad variety of commercial practices including horizontal cooperation agreements, licensing and distribution practices. He also has wide experience in EU anti-dumping proceedings involving industrial products, consumer electronics and household appliances.
Mr Spinks has advised clients in numerous industries and business sectors, including telecommunications services and equipment, media, internet, satellite services, consumer electronics, household appliances, automobiles, industrial vehicles, paper, forest products, minerals, medical equipment, heavy machinery, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and agrochemicals.
Mr Spinks is a member of the faculty of the Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union and a member of the Board of Advisers of the Dean Rusk Center for International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies at the University of Georgia School of Law. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences on EU competition and merger control law and is the author of numerous publications on competition law.
His publications include "Financial services: legal developments in EU competition law" in European Single Financial Market 2002/2003 (co-author); "Telecom mergers, acquisitions and alliances", in International Telecoms Review (2002) (co-author); "Multi-company competition" in Doing Business in the European Union, International Law Office (2002); Chapter 8, "Distribution", in Competition Law of the European Community 2nd Edition (Valentine Korah, General Editor) Matthew Bender & Company / LexisNexis (2001) (co-author); "Exclusive Dealing, Discrimination and Discounts Under EC Competition Law" in 67 Antitrust Law Journal 641 (2000); "Telecom mergers, acquisitions and alliances" in International Telecoms Review (2000) (co-author); "EU-US Issues in International Telecommunications following the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications," in 4 European Foreign Affairs Review 63 (1999) (co-author).
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.