Thomas Sharpe QC

Barrister
Date of call: 1976
QC: 1994
e-mail: tsharpe@oeclaw.co.uk
Fax: 020 7520 4842

Thomas Sharpe is a specialist in all aspects of competition law, utility regulation, commercial judicial review and European law litigation. A graduate of Trinity Hall, Cambridge he is qualified in both Economics and Law and is retained particularly where complex issues of law and economics are involved. He brings considerable experience from having held various academic appointments in the UK and US (visiting professor in anti-trust, University of California), and as a Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford until starting to practise in 1987. He is a frequent lecturer in the IEA/LBS regulation annual lecture series, to the Law Society European Group, and to the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a past contributor to Halsbury’s Laws (European Law) and the LQR, CMLR, Eur L Rev and other legal journals and to symposia and published lectures in regulation. He is on the advisory or editorial boards of the European Competition Journal, Concurrences-Revue des droits de la concurrence, and the Centre for Competition Policy, UEA.

Scope of practice

Practice covers large scale international cartel proceedings, allegations of abuse of dominant position, state aids and UK and EC merger proceedings, and extensive regulatory work over charges and licence modifications for a wide variety of British, American, German and French clients. This involves frequent appearances in the ECJ, CFI, Competition Commission, OFT and UK High Court. Sharpe also has a very extensive energy and telecommunication practice in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Caribbean and in Hong Kong.

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