People
Michael is a Partner in our Competition & Antitrust team and is a regulatory specialist with almost 20 years’ experience. He has extensive experience advising clients on economic and sectoral regulation and leads our media and telecoms practice.
Michael also has a background as a competition economist and previously worked for the Irish telecoms regulator, ComReg. This allows him to bring unique mix of experience and expertise to bear in advising clients on regulatory matters and in ensuring a practical and effective approach to engagement with national and EU regulators.
Michael has taught economics at various Irish and international universities and has contributed to a wide variety of publications on competition and regulatory matters
Specialities
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Media and Telecommunications
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State Aid, Merger Control and Antitrust
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Sectoral Regulation
Representative Matters
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Michael advises clients on merger notifications to the CCPC and the European Commission.
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Having particular expertise on the Irish media merger regime, Michael has advised Virgin Media on its acquisitions of TV3 and UTV Ireland. More recently, Michael advised 21st Century Fox on its proposed acquisition of Sky and in respect of Disney’s proposed acquisition of 21st Fox assets.
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Michael has also advised Discovery Communications in respect of its acquisition of Scripps Network Interactive, in which we were successful in persuading the Department of Communications that the merger did not trigger under the Irish media merger regime.
Recommendations
Chambers & Partners 2019
“He is a very knowledgeable lawyer who is very good at covering our bases.”
Legal 500, 2019
“Next Generation Lawyer”, Michael Madden “ensures broad and well-balanced support is always at hand”.
Areas of Expertise
Competition & Antitrust Media & TelecomsProfessional Memberships
The Law Society of Ireland
The Law Society of England and Wales
Education
University College Dublin, BA & MA (Economics)
Trinity College Dublin, Diploma in Statistics
Kings College London, Diploma in EU Law
