Craig is one of the leading competition specialists in Brussels. He has built a broad-based EC and UK competition practice encompassing market investigations, litigation (with appearances before the European courts and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal), as well as complex merger clearances for clients in highly-concentrated markets. He also heads the firm’s WTO and trade law practice, acting on a number of WTO, anti-dumping and anti-subsidy cases for clients in the EU, US, India and the Far East.
“User-friendly and forthcoming” Craig Pouncey has a direct and accessible style that goes down well with clients
Chambers Global 2007
Credentials
- Chiquita before the European Court of First Instance in high-level litigation seeking damages against the European Commission for failure to comply with the outcome of a WTO dispute
- Carnival Corporation on the European Commission’s merger clearance of its £3.5 billion hostile bid for P&O Princess Cruises
- Government of Antigua and Barbuda in its WTO action against the United States' ban on cross-border gambling and betting services Numerous mergers in the media sector
- Aberdeen Journals , a subsidiary of Northcliffe Newspapers, in connection with proceedings brought by the OFT under the Chapter II prohibition of the Competition Act 1998, in which the OFT found that Aberdeen Journals had engaged in predatory pricing, and two subsequent appeals to the Competition Appeal Tribunal
Doing business globally
Herbert Smith international trade and investment group, (pdf document, 1.4mb)