Jonathan Branton

Jonathan Branton is one of the leading experts on UK and EU Competition and EU State Aid Law. Branton is also one of the most experienced trade law lawyers in the UK, specializing in EU and WTO trade law, with extensive experience in pleading before the EU courts.

As a trade lawyer, he has litigated many cases before the European Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU. He had a major victory against the Council of the European Union in the landmark Mukand anti-subsidy case which explored the boundary between trade law and competition law, a judgment which is still much discussed. Other well-known trade law cases include Europe Chemi-Con (Deutschland) v Council, Moser Baer India Ltd v Council of the European Union, and many others. His expert writings on EU trade law in leading journals have been judicially cited with approval.

He is head of EU/Competition Law at the English law firm DWF LLP Previously he was a partner at Cobbetts LLP, premier Irish law firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice, and the Brussels office of Hammonds LLP. He is qualified as an English and Irish solicitor.

He has written on EU State aid and competition law, and on EU Trade Law. He has also written a ground-breaking article on urban regeneration in the UK and EU State Aid Law.