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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP

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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP houses a ‘formidable team of experts’ who leverage their international strength to advise notable clients, including Mercedez Benz Trucks, AstraZeneca UK, and Teva Pharmaceuticals. Practice head Frances Murphy is ‘simply outstanding' and equipped to handle a broad spectrum of issues, including allegations of abuse of dominance, cartel investigations, and civil proceedings concerning damages. The ’highly accomplished and effective' Joanna Christoforou represents a broad-range of clients across the life sciences and technology industries in matters concerning abuse of dominance investigations, and appeals before the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court; and Leonidas Theodosiou often acts for global corporates in merger control matters, in addition to handling state aid investigations.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘A formidable team of experts who are, in my view, the strongest in England at handling complex competition law disputes. I would not use anyone else.'

  • 'Frances Murphy is simply outstanding. Her level of expertise, experience and client care makes her a titan in her field.'

  • 'Joanna Christoforou is highly accomplished and effective.’

  • ‘Leonidas Theodosiou has great understanding of our business and is able to provide meaningful advice.’

Key clients

  • Teva Pharmaceuticals
  • AMCo Pharma
  • Advanz Pharma
  • Daimler Trucks
  • Amentum
  • Pacific Architects and Engineers
  • Mercedes Benz Trucks
  • AstraZeneca UK
  • Focus Pharmaceuticals
  • McDonald’s Restaurants Limited
  • Richemont
  • Trillium Flow Technologies
  • Intercontinental Exchange
  • Yandex NV
  • Abellio East Anglia Limited
  • Rail Delivery Group
  • Perrigo

Work highlights

  • Advising Mercury Pharma (now owned by Advanz) on Advanz’s defence in relation to the alleged excessive and unfair pricing of the thyroid drug Liothyronine under Chapter II / Article 102.
  • Representing Abellio East Anglia Limited and a group of 24 railway companies in claims against Visa and Mastercard before the High Court.
  • Representing Pacific Architects and Engineers in a CMA investigation into suspected anticompetitive conduct comprising bid rigging in connection with the procurements for contracts to operate the Heathrow and Derwentside Immigration Removal Centres.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Joanna Christoforou

Hausfeld LLP

Joanna Christoforou is a partner in the antitrust practice at Morgan Lewis. Joanna has experience representing clients in EU and UK competition matters before the European Commission, the European Court, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and antitrust authorities in other jurisdictions. She defends clients in relation to investigations, competition disputes, cartels, dawn raids, dominance, pricing, discounts, promotions, parallel trade, and refusals to supply. For more information, view Joanna’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/joannachristoforou.

Frances Murphy

Hall of fameMorgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Frances Murphy, a partner in the antitrust practice at Morgan Lewis, focuses on competition law and antitrust matters. Frances currently serves as Managing Partner of the firm’s London office. Frances represents clients in complex, high value global cartel investigations, alleged abuse of dominance matters and civil proceedings for damages for breach of competition law/antitrust laws. She has experience defending investigations by the competition authorities, in particular by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Financial Conduct Authority, and the European Commission and in leading actions in the Competition Authority Tribunal, the English Courts, and the European Courts. For more information, view Frances’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/francesmurphy.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Frances Murphy

Other key lawyers

Joanna Christoforou, Leonidas Theodosiou