Gerard Rothschild

Practice Areas

Gerard Rothschild practises commercial, competition, energy and public law.

Recent notable commercial law cases include: Prismall v. Google (representative proceedings for misuse of private information); Micula v. Romania (Supreme Court on enforcement of ICSID awards); and Apple v. Qualcomm (IP licensing/FRAND dispute). From postgraduate studies, he has interests in restitution and the conflict of laws.

In competition law, Gerard’s recent experience includes: Evans v. Barclays (Court of Appeal on collective proceedings orders); collective proceedings for power cables cartels; and the Meta/GIPHY merger investigation. He is a contributing author of Competition Litigation: UK Practice and Procedure (OUP).

As to public law, recent experience of note includes: constitutional litigation before the Supreme Court of the Falkland Islands; acting pro bono for the parents of Charlie Gard challenging the restriction of medical treatment for their child; and R (Good Law Project) v. Electoral Commission (expenditure rules at the EU referendum). Gerard formerly taught constitutional law at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Gerard has particular familiarity with cases arising in the energy sector. He acted for Scottish Power in the CMA’s review of RIIO-T2 and RIIO-ED1 price controls, for the Utility Regulator in the GD17 licence modification appeal, and in numerous judicial review proceedings concerning Ofgem.