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Catriona Hatton
Partner, Brussels
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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

PRACTICES
Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation
Mergers and Acquisitions
INDUSTRY SECTORS
Automotive
Technology, Media and Telecoms
Life Sciences and Healthcare
AREAS OF FOCUS
  • Antitrust and Competition Law
BLOGS
EU Daily Update
EDUCATION
Licence Spéciale, European and International Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, 1989 LL.M., The University of Dublin, Trinity College, 1985
MEMBERSHIPS
  • The Law Society (UK)
  • International Bar Association
  • Irish Belgian Business Association
  • Irish Centre for European Law
AWARDS / RANKINGS
  • Nominated for "Managing Partner of The Year" by the Belgian Legal Awards, 2011
  • Chambers Europe, Competition/European Law - Belgium, 2011
  • Chambers Global, Competition/Antitrust - Belgium, 2011
  • The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, Competition - Belgium, 2011
  • PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, Competition/Antitrust - EU, 2011
  • Global Competition Review, The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers, 2012
  • Nominated in Euromoney's legal Expert Guide: "Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers/economists", 2012
  • Nominated in Euromoney's Legal Expert Guide "Women in Business Law (Competition and Antitrust", 2012
BAR ADMISSIONS / QUALIFICATIONS Brussels The Law Society of England and Wales The Law Society of Ireland
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