Bernard E. Amory

Partner

Bernard Amory practices competition law representing clients before the European Commission, national courts, and competition authorities in Europe and the European Courts in Luxembourg. He also oversees Jones Day's Antitrust & Competition Practice in Europe.

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 and industrial bags cases 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 pricing investigation.

Some of the leading merger cases in which Bernard has represented the notifying party include: BT/MCI and 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 AT&T in MCI/WorldCom/Sprint.

He also has significant experience in Article 82 (abuses), including the roaming case on behalf of Telefonica-O2 and Microsoft on behalf of a third party and Dell in the Intel rebates case. His experience on state aid and state measures include the representation of BUPA in the risk equalization scheme in Ireland and work for Bouygues.

Bernard served as council member of the International Bar Association (SBL) and is on the advisory board of the European Competition Journal.