Chanelle is a Managing Associate in the Competition group.
Chanelle has in-depth experience across large-scale competition litigation and the full spectrum of competition advisory and transactional matters. Chanelle advises clients on:
- Competition disputes, including damages claims
- Merger control and foreign direct investment issues, including co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional analysis and regulatory filings
- Anticompetitive behavioural matters such as abuse of dominance and information exchange
- Commercial agreements including non-compete clauses and distribution arrangements
- Complaints and submissions to the CMA
- Unannounced inspections ("dawn raids") by regulators
Prior to joining Mishcon, Chanelle gained competition law expertise and unique perspectives through her time working in the commercial litigation department of a leading New Zealand law firm where she assisted primarily on appeals in respect of merger clearance decisions, and then for the New Zealand Commerce Commission where she worked on investigations and litigation in relation to anticompetitive conduct. Chanelle deftly applies the skills and knowledge developed from this background to her work in the Competition Group at Mishcon.
Key Experience
- Acting for Justin le Patourel, the class representative, in a £600 million opt-out collective action brought against BT in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and subsequent appeal to the Court of Appeal.
- Advising Asda, Curry's, Iceland, John Lewis, Sainsbury's and Wilko in relation to claims against the European Trucks Cartelists in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
- Acting for the representative claimant in an opt-out representative action in the English High Court on behalf of 1.6 million individuals against Google UK and DeepMind Technologies regarding the misuse of private information.
- Advising a third party in relation to their complaint to the CMA regarding Amazon's proposed acquisition of iRobot.
- Advising a third party in relation to their complaint to the CMA regarding AlphaTheta's proposed acquisition of Serato.
- Assisting in relation to a dawn raid conducted by the CMA at residential and business premises.
- Advising in relation to the CMA's inquiries into several completed acquisitions, and further in relation to proposed acquisitions by the same company.
- Advising within the NZ Commerce Commission team in relation to an investigation and High Court proceedings into restrictive agreements between competing consumer finance companies not to bid on certain keywords on Google Ads. The proceedings were settled.
- Advising within the NZ Commerce Commission team in relation to an investigation and High Court proceedings into an attempted agreement to fix the price of competitors’ “vehicle booking systems” in the New Zealand port industry. This was the NZCC’s second proceeding for attempted cartel conduct under the amended cartel provisions.
- Advising within the NZ Commerce Commission team in relation to an investigation and High Court proceedings in relation to a price fixing agreement in the provision of services for equine freight. The proceedings were settled.
Career History
Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Solicitor, Haigh Lyon
Solicitor, Bell Gully
Legal Counsel/Senior Legal Counsel, New Zealand Commerce Commission
University of Auckland, New Zealand, BA/LLB (Hons)
College of Law (New Zealand), Professionals (Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of New Zealand)
Articles and publications