Lawyers get everywhere these days, and nowhere more so than the Competition Commission’s reporting panel. Four of the most recent intakes to the panel, appointed in 2005, were previously star City competition law practitioners – Laura Carstensen (Slaughter and May), Chris Bright (Shearman & Sterling), Richard Taylor (CMS Cameron McKenna) and Rob Murray (Clifford Chance) – while that year’s intake also included another former CMS Cameron McKenna partner, Law Society president Fiona Woolf, whose specialist areas include regulatory and market design.
They joined longstanding legal panel members Laurence Elks (a competition lawyer who was formerly a partner at Nabarro Nathanson), former BAT assistant general counsel Martin Walzer and Dame Barbara Mills QC, former Director of Public Prosecutions and director of the Serious Fraud Office.
