Samantha Mobley

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Samantha Mobley is a partner in the EU, Competition & Trade Practice of Baker McKenzie's London office and she is a member of the London office Management Committee. She led the Firm's Global Antitrust & Competition Practice Group for six years. Samantha is recommended as a leading individual for competition law in the Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession and Who's Who Legal in 2018. She was featured in the Global Competition Review's 2016 Women in Antitrust Survey as one of the top 150 women in antitrust globally. She is also a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network.

In Antitrust / Competition

EU’s highest Court confirms that automated messages can put recipients on the hook for a price-fixing cartel

February 7, 2017 by Fiona Carlin, Grant Murray and Samantha Mobley 5 Mins Read

Eturas runs the e-commerce back-end of 30 travel agents in Lithuania. An administrator message to each member informed them that the e-commerce functionality allowing each travel agent to grant discounts would be capped at 3 per cent. That message appeared in part of the system relating to information messages. The Court of Justice found that administrator messages could be the basis of illegal cartel type conduct.

In Antitrust / Competition

Cathode-ray tube claims struck out by UK court for lack of territorial connection

June 22, 2016 by Samantha Mobley 7 Mins Read

The High Court of England and Wales has struck out a claim for damages brought by Japanese computer monitor makers against a group of cartelists involved in the cathode-ray tube and cathode-ray tube glass cartels

In Africa

Antitrust risk re-assessment in newly concentrated markets: practical ways to preserve freedom from investigation

January 4, 2016 by Samantha Mobley and Grant Murray 11 Mins Read

The economic literature explains that most markets tend towards oligopoly over the longer term. This does not necessarily imply that competition is impaired.