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Alice Wallace-Wright
Partner Global Regulatory
London
Dublin
Languages
English, French
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Legal 500Highly knowledgeable and commercially astute
Alice is a partner who advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition laws across a wide variety of business sectors, with a particular focus on life sciences, telecoms, media, technology and consumer.
Alice’s practice spans strategic, advisory, transactional, investigations and contentious contexts. She is a trusted advisor to many institutional clients, bringing her "excellent strategic judgment" to bear in advising on the impact of competition law on commercial strategy as well as on the design and implementation of competition compliance programmes. She is a particular specialist in abuse of dominance in both commercial and contentious contexts. Alice's transactional practice covers advice to clients on the merger control and FDI aspects of transactions, from filing assessments, contractual considerations and how this feeds deal strategy.
Legal 500Highly knowledgeable and commercially astute
Representative experience
Advising IBM on its $6.4bn acquisition of cloud infrastructure company HashiCorp.
Representing Vodafone Group and UK in their successful defence of the Phones 4u UK standalone competition claim and in the Court of Appeal proceedings.
Advising medical technology company Zimmer Biomet on its $1.1bn acquisition of medical device company Paragon 28.
Advising Vodafone on the global carve-out of its Internet of Things business.
Advising Vodafone on its joint venture with Accenture to create a new global services company, VOIS.
Advising pensions-focused savings specialist Cardano on the sale of its entire group to investment specialist Mercer.
Advising pharmaceutical clients on litigation and settlement strategy in the context of patent disputes.
Advising a leading pharmaceutical company on the merger control and FDI assessment of global transactions (acquisitions and disposals).
Advising Reach plc (formerly Trinity Mirror) in relation to transactions.
Advising a leading cloud company in establishing and running its European distribution network.
Advising real estate clients in relation to the competition law aspects of their land agreements and abuse of dominance.
Advising a shipping company in relation to a European Commission investigation into price signalling.
Advising a UK bank in relation to the UK Competition and Markets Authority investigation into the retail banking market.
Advising Outokumpu Oyj in relation to High Court proceedings arising from the copper tubes cartels.
Credentials
Education
- PGDip, EU Competition Law, King's College London, 2014
- LPC, BPP University Law School, 2009
- M.A., University of Cambridge, 2008
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales
Memberships
- International Bar Association - Antitrust Committee
- Law Society Competition Section
- Law Society of England and Wales
- Law Society of Ireland
Recognition
Events
Webinar
5 December 2024 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EST)
Webinar
09 June 2022 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM GMT | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CET