Practice Areas | Intellectual Property

Stephen Kon is head of the EU & Competition Department.

He has extensive experience in representing clients in contentious and non-contentious EU and domestic competition work, as well as general EU law. He regularly represents clients in proceedings before the Office of Fair Trading, the Competition Commission, the European Commission and the Court of First Instance ("CFI") and the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") in Luxembourg.

He has represented the European Commission in a number of competition cases before the CFI and the ECJ and has acted in a number of significant merger clearance enquiries; for example, the EU clearance of the merger of Guinness with Grand Metropolitan, for which the team won the "Legal Business" Competition Team of the Year award. Stephen has been awarded by the Law Society the right to appear in all higher courts in the UK based on his extensive experience of representing clients before courts and tribunals in contentious EU/Competition matters.

He lectured law in the school of European studies at Sussex University and University of Reading before joining SJ Berwin in 1982, and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford. He is a former Chairman of the Law Society's Solicitors' European Group and sits on the Advisory Board of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham.

He has written and lectured extensively on various subjects relating to EU and competition law. Publications include SJ Berwin's major loose leaf publication "The Competition Law of the UK" and numerous articles in most of the leading European law reviews.