Amanda Town
Amanda Town
Biography
Amanda Town is a competition lawyer based in London.
Amanda advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious competition matters. She has particularly in-depth experience of representing claimants and defendants in standalone and follow-on competition litigation in the UK. Amanda has acted on a number of business critical and high profile matters, including managing complex merger investigations, and advising on civil and criminal cartel investigations before the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission.
Complementing her extensive experience in private practice, Amanda has spent time on secondments including at the firm’s Tokyo office, in-house at Vodafone Group, at the Competition and Markets Authority’s Phase 1 mergers team, and in-house as acting Global Head of Competition Law for Carlsberg Group.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
- Orange SA – defending a standalone High Court (2022) and Court of Appeal (2025) competition law claim brought by the administrators of Phones4U, alleging that the major UK mobile network operators unlawfully conspired to remove Phones4U from the market. The claim has been reported to be worth around £1 billion and was one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2022.
- GFG Alliance – on the acquisition of the aluminium rolling divestment business in the US$2.2 billion Novelis/Aleris merger, following Phase 2/second request review in the EU, US, China and elsewhere.
- PayPal – on the UK Competition and Markets Authority's Phase 2 review of its US$2.2 billion acquisition of iZettle, obtaining an unconditional clearance without remedies. This matter was nominated for Merger Control Matter of the Year (Europe) for the GCR Awards 2020 and for Competition and Regulatory Team of the Year for The Lawyer Awards 2020.
- Vodafone Group – on its hybrid standalone and follow-on damages claim following the 2014 European Commission finding that certain smart card chip manufacturers unlawfully co-ordinated their market behaviour.
- HSBC – on the consequential impact of an European Commission investigation into interchange fees and related follow-on litigation against MasterCard and Visa in the High Court.
- A multinational orange juice manufacturer – defending a follow-on claim by a group of Brazilian farmers.
- A fintech company – on its participation in a UK CMA abuse of dominance investigation and related market study, which foreshadowed the introduction of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act.
- One of the UK’s largest construction companies – defending conspiracy claims brought in the High Court and commercial options for alternative dispute resolution.
Rankings and recognitions
Rankings and recognitions
The Legal 500
“Key lawyer” (2022) - “Amanda Town is a very capable and impressive senior associate. She managed a complicated and at times difficult disclosure process with ease, and very efficiently. Hardworking and highly intelligent.”
Education
Education
- University of Exeter (B.A., Spanish and French, 2009)
- BPP Law School (GDL, 2010; LPC, 2011)
- King’s College London (Postgraduate Diploma, EU Competition Law, 2017)
Admissions
Admissions
- Solicitor qualified in England & Wales 2013
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