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Dr Helen Jenkins Partner

Helen has more than 25 years of professional experience in applying economic principles to issues of strategic importance for businesses, predominantly in the context of litigation and competition investigations. She has broad sectoral experience, including in energy, financial services, retailing, communications, media and pharmaceuticals.

Helen has worked with a range of clients on the economic issues that underlie the application of the relevant competition legislation in the UK, elsewhere in Europe, Australia and the Middle East. She is a respected expert, appearing before courts and competition authorities in the USA, UK, Republic of Ireland, South Africa and Hong Kong. Her recent clients include Mastercard International, Microsoft, National Grid, Royal Mail, Intercontinental Exchange, and the Commonwealth of Australia.

Helen has been listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists since 2001, and in WWL Thought Leaders Global Elite – Competition Economists since 2021, and is an author of Economics for Competition Lawyers (Oxford University Press, third edition, 2023). She has also been a Trustee of the Swarovski Foundation, an independent charitable foundation that aims to support charitable projects across the areas of fostering culture and creativity, promoting wellbeing and human rights, and conserving natural resources (2014–18).

Helen speaks English.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6603

Helen's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Adviser to a vehicle OEM with respect to agreements relating to disposal of end-of-life vehicles in Europe (2022–)

  • Adviser to Ryanair on a competition dispute in Europe with an online travel agency (2021–)

  • Adviser to a vaccine manufacturer on economic issues relating to potential intellectual property disputes (damages assessment and reasonable royalties) (2022–)

  • Adviser to a company developing human genome editing applications on economic issues relating to potential intellectual property disputes (damages assessment and reasonable royalties) (2023–)

  • Adviser to Mastercard on competition and regulatory matters in Europe and Australia (2015–)

  • Adviser to Extra MSA relating to CMA investigation into agreements relating to EV charging (2020)

Selected
expert experience

  • Expert for the Commonwealth of Australia in the Federal Court of Australia with respect to injunctions relating to aripiprazole (2020-)

  • Expert evidence in the England and Wales High Court for National Grid and Scottish Power in their claim for damages with respect to purchases of power cables (2018–20)

  • Expert evidence for Standard Life Aberdeen in a confidential arbitration against Lloyds Banking Group with respect to a contractual dispute on the meaning of ‘material competitor’ (2018–19)

  • Expert evidence for the Hong Kong Competition Commission in a construction sector case at the Hong Kong Competition Appeal Tribunal (2018–19)

  • Expert evidence in the High Court for BritNed in its claim for damages with respect to its purchases of power cables (2018)

  • Expert evidence for Pfizer in the Federal Court of Australia with respect to injunctions relating to venlafaxine (2017–18)

Selected
publications

  • Niels, G., Jenkins, H. and Kavanagh, J. (2023), Economics for Competition Lawyers, third edition, Oxford University Press.

  • Jenkins, H., Niels, G. and Noble, R. (2013), ‘The South African Airways cases: blazing a trail for Europe to follow?’, chapter 7, in K. Moodaliyar and S. Roberts, The development of competition law and economics in South Africa, HSRC Press.

  • Pilsbury, S. and Jenkins, H. (2010), ‘The Evolution of Effects-Based Analysis under the Competition Act 1998’, Competition Law Journal, 9:2, pp. 216–27.

  • Marshall, N., Jenkins, H. and Niels, G. (2008), ‘The Price of Intellectual Property: What is FRAND?’, in Global Competition Review, The Handbook of Competition Economics: A Global Competition Review Special Report.

  • Jenkins, H. and Niels, G. (2005), ‘Reform of Article 82: Where the Link between Dominance and Effects Breaks Down’, European Competition Law Review, 26:11.

Qualifications

  • DPhil and MPhil Economics, University of Oxford, UK

  • BEc (Hons) Science and Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia


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