Lawyers

Michael Cutting

Michael Cutting

Work Department

Competition.

Position

Michael is a partner in the Competition/Antitrust practice, based in London.  He has significant experience of both competition and regulatory law in the UK and across Europe. He also has considerable experience of the application of competition law in the energy, utilities, food & beverages, leisure and transport sectors and works with his clients to guide them through complex merger control, behavioural and other regulatory issues.

Michael was Global Head of the Linklaters Competition/Antitrust practice from 2011 to 2015 and lead the London Competition/Antitrust group from 2004 to 2009.  He is co-chair of the Joint Working Party on Competition Law of the Law Society and Bar Council.

Career

Articled clerk Linklaters 1986-88; assistant solicitor 1988-95; partner competition and regulatory law group 1995; partner and head of competition/antitrust 2004-09; partner and global practice head 2011 to 2015; 1995 to date partner

Languages

English

Memberships

Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Education

Luton Sixth Form College; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1984 MA).