Bernard E. Amory
Partner
Brussels
Tel: 32.2.645.15.11
Fax: 32.2.645.14.45
Email:
bamory@jonesday.com
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Bernard Amory has practised competition law in Brussels since 1984. While working as an official in the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission, he was in charge of the application of the competition rules in the telecommunications sector and played a key role in the liberalisation of the European telecommunications market. He has extensive experience as a Commission official and as a private practitioner in dealing with joint ventures, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions (on behalf of both notifying parties and third parties), as well as abuses of dominant position, cartel investigations, and state aid matters before the Commission and the European courts. Some of the leading merger cases in which Bernard has represented the notifying party include: BT/MCI (1) and (2), BT/AT&T, Total/Petrofina, and Procter & Gamble/Gillette. He also acts for intervening parties and complainants in merger cases, such as for Apple in Sony/BMG, Tele Denmark in Telia/Telenor, and ATT in MCI/WorldCom/Sprint.
Bernard's recent or ongoing representations relating to Article 81 (restrictive practices) include: the air cargo case for American Airlines, the vitamins case for Aventis, the marine hoses case for Parker Hannifin, the paper and forestry products case for UPM, the industrial bags case for UPM, the bananas case for Dole, the credit card investigation for MasterCard, the O2/T-Mobile infrastructure sharing and national roaming case on behalf of O2, and the Apple iTunes investigation. He also has significant experience in Article 82 (abuses), including the roaming case on behalf of O2 and Microsoft on behalf of a third party. His experience on state aid and state measures include the representation of BUPA in the risk equalisation scheme in Ireland and work for Bouygues.
Bernard is ranked by Chambers in the top 20 competition lawyers in Brussels among the 96 leading competition lawyers. In view of the extensive competition work he did for telecommunications companies in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, Bernard was named "Lawyer of the Year" for regulatory communications by Who's Who Legal. He also has been selected as one of the world's top 20 lawyers by the Commercial Lawyer 2000. Bernard has served as a member of the council of the Business Law Section of the International Bar Association.
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Brussels
Education
University of Exeter, England (LL.M. 1983); University of Louvain, Belgium (Licence en Droit 1981); Law Faculty of Namur, Belgium (B.A. 1978)
Government/Military Service
Official, Directorate General IV (Competition) of the European Commission (1989-1991) and Belgian Army (1983-1984)
Languages
English, French