Biography: Competition

Stephen Spinks is the managing 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 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 the European Union chapter in Getting the Deal Through - Vertical Agreements; "Privileged and confidential? EU Court of Justice rules against extending legal privilege to in-house lawyers", co-authored with Kristina Nordlander, Antitrust Counselor, September 2010; and "Cartel liability in the EU: what can parent companies say in their defense?", Mlex Offline, co-authored with Anouck Meier, April 2010.

Biography: Regulatory Communications

Stephen Spinks is the managing 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 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: "Privileged and Confidential? EU Court of Justice rules against extending legal privilege to in-house lawyers", co-authored with Kristina Nordlander, Antitrust Counselor, September 2010; "Cartel Liability in the EU: what can parent companies say in their defense?", Mlex Offline, co-authored with Anouck Meier, April 2010; the European Union chapter in Getting the Deal Through - Vertical Agreements, 2007 to 2010; "The Interplay of Patenting Strategies and Competition Law in the Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry", GCP, February 2009.