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Catriona
Hatton
Partner, Brussels
catriona.hatton@hoganlovells.com
Catriona Hatton is the Managing Partner of the firm's Brussels office. Her practice focuses on European Community (EC) competition law. Catriona has extensive experience advising on EC and national competition law aspects of international mergers, including filings under the EC Merger Regulation and co-ordinating global merger filings.
Catriona advises on compliance with competition rules in a wide range of commercial agreements. Her compliance work has frequently involved the conduct of antitrust audits and the design and implementation of compliance programs.
Catriona has represented clients in complaints to, and investigations by, the European Commission and numerous national competition authorities. She advises clients in a number of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, mining, media and entertainment, automotive, and energy.
Catriona is recommended in the recent edition of Chambers Europe as a business-oriented practitioner who "really listens to the client and then provides advice that is both high-level and practical."
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Antitrust counsel to Ford Motor Company in connection with its sale of Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors for approximately US$2.3bn.
- Antitrust counsel to the Black & Decker Corporation in its merger with Stanley Works for US$4.5bn.
- Antitrust counsel to Norilsk Nickel Group in connection with the acquisition of LionOre Mining International Ltd for US$6.3bn. This is the largest cross-border acquisition ever made by a Russian company.
- Antitrust counsel to a leading high tech company in advising on strategic alliances and competition compliance in IP licensing and distribution arrangements.
- Antitrust counsel to a US company in successfully defending a complaint for alleged abuse of dominance arising from IP litigation.
- Antitrust counsel to Sun Microsystems in its acquisition of Swedish company MySQL, developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases, for approx. US$1bn.
Hogan Lovells Publications
27 March 2009
"Life Sciences: Competition & Antitrust Update: Issue 12." Life Sciences: Competition & Antitrust Update, Hogan & Hartson LLP
Published Works
December 2010
"EU Merger Control and the Full Function Test for Joint Ventures.", Competition Law Insight
September 2010
"Treatment of Minority Acquisitions under EU and International Merger Control.", European Competition Law Review
01 June 2010
"Minority Acquisitions: How are these Affected by Different Merger Control Regimes?", Competition Law Insight
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