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Michael Madden

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Michael is a Partner with over 15 years' experience in the field of economic regulation.

Prior to joining the firm, Michael worked with the communications regulator, ComReg. As well as regularly advising clients on antitrust, merger control and State aid matters, Michael has particular expertise in the areas of electronic communications and broadcasting regulation.

Michael has taught economics at both University College Dublin and the University of Western Sydney and has contributed to a wide variety of publications on competition and regulatory matters.

Knowledge:

Antitrust, cartels, merger control and State aid
Regulated Industries
Technology, Media and Communications
Export control and trade sanctions

Representative Matters

Advising on merger notifications to the European Commission including ABP Group/Fane Valley Group/Slaney Foods and McKesson/UDG Healthcare.

Advising Virgin Media on its acquisitions of TV3 and UTV Ireland.

Advising Discovery Communications on its acquisition of Setanta Sports Asia.

Advising BT in connection with Hutchison’s (Three Ireland) acquisition of Telefónica Ireland.

Advising on the European Commission’s abuse of dominance investigation into Google.

Advising on the CCPC’s competition investigation into ‘most favoured nation’ clauses used by travel websites.

Advising a number of clients on dawn raid procedures.

Advising the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE) on State aid aspects of its National Broadband Plan.

Advising various public entities such as Science Foundation Ireland, National Treasury Management Agency, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, various universities and Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company on State aid matters.

Advising the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) on various spectrum auctions including on all aspects of its hugely successful 4G spectrum auction.