PRACTICE AREAS

MiFID Electronic Commerce Financial Services & eBusiness Regulatory and Competition Corporate Services Brand Use on the Internet

REGULATORY - PROCEDURAL

• Regulatory liaison with OFCOM and the FSA
  
• Advice on regulatory procedures with all regulators.

COMPETITION

• Access including access in Telecommunications ( the Commission Notice ), the essential facilities dochtrine and Guidelines for Good Third Party Access Practice
  
• Co-operation by competitors and the Horizontal Restraints Block Exemption
  
• Cross subsidisation, what this means and how it applies
  
• Discrimination, the non discrimination rules and when they apply
  
• Electronic programme guides, regulatory issues
  
• Joint production and joint research and development, where permissible
  
• Pricing by dominant utilities, costs which may lawfully be recovered, discounting, promotional pricing, discrimination, bundling
  
• Technology transfer under regulation 772/2004
  
• Vertical restraints under the Vertical Restraints Block Exemption, open, selective and exclusive distribution, exclusive supply