STEVE SPINKS is the Managing Partner of Sidley’s Brussels office, where he practices EU law and in particular competition, communications and trade law.

Mr. Spinks has practiced European competition and regulatory law in Brussels since 1979. He has extensive experience in the application of EU competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, and antitrust counselling on a broad variety of commercial practices including horizontal cooperation agreements, licensing and distribution practices. He also has wide experience in EU anti-dumping proceedings involving industrial products, consumer electronics and household appliances.

Mr. Spinks has advised clients in numerous industries and business sectors, including telecommunications services and equipment, media, Internet, satellite services, consumer electronics, household appliances, automobiles, industrial vehicles, paper, forest products, minerals, medical equipment, heavy machinery, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and agrochemicals.

Mr. Spinks is a member of the faculty of the Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union and a member of the Board of Advisers of the Dean Rusk Center for International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies at the University of Georgia School of Law. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences on EU competition and merger control law and is the author of numerous publications on competition law.

Mr. Spinks features prominently in the competition and communications rankings of the leading bar publications such as Chambers, The Legal 500, PLC Cross-border Competition Handbook, PLC Cross-border Media and Communications Handbook and Who’s Who Legal.