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Julia Woodward-Carlton

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Languages: French, Italian, Spanish

Julia is a Partner in the Competition, Trade and Foreign Investment group in our London office.

She has 20 years of experience advising clients on EU and UK competition issues across a broad range of matters including:

  • application of competition law to strategic collaborations, trade practices and agreements (including information sharing)
  • abuse of dominance as well as representing clients who are the subject of regulatory investigation

Julia has a particular focus advising clients subject to cartel investigations as well as competition issues in the Financial Services sector.

She also advises extensively on competition law compliance, including implementing global compliance programs as well as devising and delivering face-to-face and online training.

Julia spent six months on secondment to the Competition and Markets Authority as a Deputy Director in the Cartels and Criminal Enforcement Unit where she gained particular experience in managing leniency applications and criminal casework. She also spent an extended period on secondment in-house to American Express as acting head of anti-trust and payments regulation for EMEA.

She is a regular speaker on competition law issues and is recognized in The Legal 500.

Julia is also a Diversity sponsor partner in our London office.

Julia's recent experience includes:

  • acting for a manufacturer subject to the European Commission’s cartel investigation in the trucks sector, including the first successful post-Statement of Objections settlement
  • advising one of two manufacturers in a settlement with the Competition and Markets Authority in respect of a cartel investigation into the solid fuels market
  • representing a main party in the Financial Conduct Authority’s first Competition Act investigation
  • advising a client in the Payment Systems Regulator’s first competition investigation
  • acting for a client in the Competition and Market Authority’s Market Investigation into investment consultancy
  • acting for a pharmaceuticals client subject to a European Commission abuse of dominance investigation
  • The Legal 500
  • Team award: Winners of the Global Competition Review award for Behavioural Matter of the Year (Europe 2017). This was for the creative, strategic and innovative work carried out in a non-merger matter before an enforcer in Europe
Julia Woodward-Carlton

Partner

Julia Woodward-Carlton

Partner

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