Philip Andrews
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Philip co-heads the firm’s EU, Competition, & Regulated Markets Group. Philip focuses on antitrust litigation, transactional and counseling issues. He has represented a wide variety of companies before the European Commission, the Competition Authority, and national regulatory agencies.
Philip successfully represented ILCU in ILCU v Competition Authority, the leading Irish case on competition law, in which the Supreme Court unanimously endorsed the consumer welfare standard.
Philip has served as Legal Adviser to the Competition Authority and assisted in drafting the Competition Act 2002. He also counseled the agency on EU Modernisation, prior to adoption of Regulation 1/2003. Earlier in his career, Philip practiced for six years in Brussels with a U.S. firm, following a training period at DG Competition.
Philip is listed as among the world's leading competition lawyers under the age of 40 in GCR’s '40 under Forty' survey. Philip is a non-governmental adviser to the Competition Authority and is a past chair of the Law Society’s EU and International Affairs Committee.
Directory Comments
Philip has a "great ability to apply his skills to the wider range of regulatory matters". The Legal 500, 2011
According to legal directory Chambers 2010, Philip has an "extraordinary high level of expertise, and is always exceptionally well prepared".