Marie Leppard
Partner
Bio
Before joining Euclid Law as a partner in November 2016, Marie was a senior associate at Clifford Chance’s antitrust practice (London and Paris). Prior to that, she worked at Sullivan & Cromwell.
Marie assists clients on French, UK and EU antitrust investigations, complex multi-jurisdictional mergers and abuse of dominance cases. In recent years, Marie has been involved in a number of high-profile merger filings before the European Commission and the Competition Markets Authority in the UK.
Marie’s practice focuses mainly on cartel investigations. Marie has worked on numerous high-profile cross-border cartel investigations before the European Commission, the CMA, the FCA and the US Department of Justice. Last year, Marie was involved in a number of high-profile matters, including advising a major investment bank on a number of financial services investigations, including FOREX, obtaining a competition law injunction against Google and successfully defended a generic company in two CMA’s investigations into price fixing of Prochlorperazine and other generic products.
Marie has also vast experience in providing clients with compliance framework and training as well as advising on the use of the latest technologies and artificial intelligence in internal audits and cartel investigations.
Marie has extensive experience in a range of sectors including banking, finance services, insurance, energy, oil and gas, consumer goods as well as healthcare.
Marie was recognised by Who’s Who Legal as a Competition Future Leader in:
- 2018, WWL says: “Marie Leppard is “an accomplished lawyer”, who is admired for her “excellent judgement” as well as her impressive ability to “quickly establish effective working relationships.”
- 2019,WWL says: “Marie Leppard is widely recommended by clients, who applaud her “humane, reassuring approach in combination with a brilliant understanding of competition law.”
Marie has worked in Paris and London.
Experience
- International Investment Bank in relation to the EC’s investigation into FOREX manipulation.
- International Investment Bank in relation to the FCA
- investigation into the Libor/Euribor misconduct.
- International pharmaceutical company on its defence in relation to the CMA’s investigation into suspected anti-competitive agreements.
- International pharmaceutical Company in relation to the French Competition Authority’s investigation into pay for delay and denigration of certain generics
- European Commission together with Europe Economics, appointed to assist and advise DG Comp in its market study in relation to loan syndication in Europe.
- Refresco on Phase 1 clearance with remedies for its acquisition of Cott’s bottling activities before the CMA.
- Refresco on Phase 1 notification to the EC of its proposed buyout by PAI and BCiM.
- Unlockd in its litigation against Google for abusing its dominant position by removing Unlockd’s apps from the Google Play Store ecosystem and denying access to its ad server Admob.
- Royal Dutch Shell in relation to the sale of its Harburg refinery to Nynas AB
- Royal Dutch Shell in relation to the acquisition of Repsol’s LNG assets
Education
LLM, University College of London
LLB, Law and French, University of Surrey
Admissions
England & Wales
Ireland
Brussels (B list)
Languages
English, French and Spanish
Publications and Speaking Engagements
Marie was recently invited to speak at:
- The ACCL Compliance Conference, in Zurich, in November 2018 to discuss “The Use of Technology in Best-Practice Compliance and the Move Towards Real-Time Monitoring”.
- The 11th CLU Conference, in Zurich, on 2nd April 2019 to present a “Legal Perspective on Utilization and Limitations of Digitization in Antitrust Law”
- The European Competition Law Association Conference, in Prague, on 25 May 2019 to discuss “Antitrust Compliance and the Use of New Technologies”
Marie is the co-author of a practical guide on the ‘Day-to-Day Competition Law for Businesses’ and has published various articles which can be found here
Contact Details
m: +44 7377338257
t: +44 2039710348
Email Marie