Mark Simpson

Practice Areas

Mark advises on contentious antitrust and competition law matters. He focuses on providing strategic advice on regulatory risk and representing clients in dealing with investigations and competition litigation concerning antitrust allegations, including class actions. He also advises clients on internal investigations, compliance and crisis management. Mark has extensive experience from his involvement in high-profile investigations brought by UK and European Union competition agencies, including the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission, defending clients in damages claims brought in the English High Court and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), and advising on alternative dispute resolution. In recent years Mark has been involved many of the most significant cartel damages and abuse of dominance claims before the English courts, including class actions and other types of group litigation. His experience also includes numerous cases involving judicial review and appeal proceedings challenging regulatory action before the English and EU courts.

Mark has advised corporations across a wide range of industries – including technology, communications, media and broadcasting, financial services, energy, life sciences, transportation, manufacturing and primary industries. He also has advised governments and regulatory agencies. In addition, his experience is informed from stints as an in-house antitrust adviser for a mobile telecommunications company and a music recording industry trade association.

Mark is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, and he first qualified as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 2001. Before entering private practice, he served in the New Zealand government as an adviser on competition and intellectual property issues.