Stephen Critchley

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About Stephen Critchley

I am a dispute resolution solicitor with higher rights of audience in the English courts, and a specialty in antitrust damages litigation. I have over 20 years’ experience in resolving high value commercial disputes in court and arbitral proceedings. I have developed a focus on competition law – and particularly antitrust damages actions – since acting for the claimant in the landmark case of Crehan v Inntrepreneur Pub Company in 2003. REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS - ANTITRUST - Representing companies including Boots, Findus/Birdseye and Pilgrim's Pride in their claims against the truck manufacturers cartel- Defending Cable & Wireless against allegations of anticompetitive collusion with other leading UK telcos in the landing of transatlantic cables- Defending T-Mobile against allegations of abuse of dominance in refusing to recognise the telephone numbers allocated to a VoIP service provider seeking to piggyback on its network- Representing a household-name company in a leniency application to the UK Competition & Markets Authority (“CMA”)- Advising a pharmaceuticals manufacturer under threat of CMA investigation for excessive pricing in the wake of the CMA’s Flynn/Pfizer decision. REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS - COMMERCIAL LITIGATION - Representing a shareholder of Yukos Oil injuncted from seeing a valuation in the exercise of a call option on his shares lest he divulge the location of assets to the Russian government- Representing the UK government’s Commonwealth Development Corporation (“CDC”) in a dispute with a Spanish fishing company concerning the validity CDC’s put option to exit a Namibian joint venture between the parties- Representing Virgin Media against a shipping line after its subsea cable was severed by an anchor in international waters- Representing the government of Trinidad & Tobago in a claim against a Spanish company for negligence in its reconstruction of Trinidad’s main highway. Hablo español con soltura.