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Competition Law - UK
Individual Editorial
Michael Armitage attracts attention for his contributions to follow-on and standalone damages claims, as well as collective proceedings. He predominantly acts for defendants, but also has experience advising class representatives. He has additional experience defending the CMA in appeals against its decisions. He has impressive activity on matters in the transport and technology sectors.
Strengths
His cross-examination has been legendary.
He has got the full toolkit that a really good competition lawyer has. He really understands the economics and has detailed knowledge of case law.
Michael is responsive, pragmatic and commercial. He's extremely experienced, thoughtful but also very collaborative; he's an excellent team player.
He is brilliant, absolutely fantastic. He does wonderful written submissions, and very powerful and helpful work with experts. He is a personable team member and an incredibly hard worker.