Oliver Bretz
Partner
BIO
Oliver founded Euclid Law at the end of 2014. Oliver has been involved in a multitude of high-profile, high-value deals throughout his career. Before founding Euclid Law, he spent 12 years as a Partner at Clifford Chance, spending 4 years from 2010 as Global Managing Partner of the Antitrust Practice and Head of EU Public Policy.
Oliver has a wealth of experience advising on cartels, mergers, behavioural antitrust, competition litigation, as well as across a diverse variety of sectors notably banking and finance yet also energy, media, telecommunications, transport and oil and gas.
Oliver has been awarded various awards including:
- GCR 40 under 40
- The Lawyer “Hot 100”
- ILO Client Choice Award 2010
- ILO Client Choice Award 2014
- Listed as a ‘Leading Individual’ in the Legal 500
- Oliver is recommended and recognised in Chambers and Partners and Who’s Who Legal 2018 and 2019 as a Competition expert.
Oliver is also a CEDR qualified mediator.
Experience
- CityJet on its long-term wet lease arrangement with Aer Lingus, involving very rare strategic exit rationale.
- BidonThis as a third-party complainant resulting in the CMA’s investigation into ATG Media’s suspected concerted practices in the supply of auction services in the UK.
- Statoil Fuel & Retail on its merger with Shell’s retail fuel network in Denmark before the European Commission.
- EEX/Powernext as a third-party complainant in the acquisition of Trayport by ICE before the CMA.
- Refresco on Phase 1 clearance with remedies for its acquisition of Cott’s bottling activities before the UK Competition & Markets Authority.
- Refresco on Phase 1 notification to the European Commission 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.
- International Investment Bank in relation to the European Commission’s investigation into FOREX manipulation.
- International Investment Bank in relation to the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s investigation into the Libor/Euribor misconduct.
- International Pharmaceutical Company in relation to the French Competition Authority’s investigation into pay for delay and denigration of certain generics
Includes matters handled at Euclid or prior to joining the firm
Education
LLM, University of Cambridge
MA Law, University of Cambridge
Admissions
England & Wales
Ireland
Brussels
New York
Languages
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian
Publications and Speaking Engagements
Oliver has published papers in several law journals, including the Competition Policy International (2016), and the Competition Law Journal (2015)
Contact Details
m: +44 7881588784
m: +32 465 882382
Email Oliver