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Nicholas Gibson
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Nicholas’s practice focuses on
competition
,
regulatory
, general
commercial
and
EU law
, with additional experience in the fields of
public law
and
human rights
.
Since arriving at Matrix, Nicholas has advised a range of clients in both the public and private sectors, including acting as Legal Adviser to the Competition Commission on a reference from the Competition Appeal Tribunal in an appeal against charge controls in the telecoms sector. Nicholas has also worked with the Office of Fair Trading advising on various matters in the Consumer Credit and Consumer Markets Groups.
Before moving to Matrix in 2009, Nicholas worked for seven and a half years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, where on qualification he practised as an associate and solicitor-advocate in the firm’s Dispute Resolution department specialising in
EU
,
competition
and
public law
.
During his time as a solicitor, Nicholas advised regulators, major financial institutions and leading commercial companies across a range of industry sectors, as well as acting pro bono for clients in various tribunals. Among his more recent cases, Nicholas played a lead role in the team acting for the London Stock Exchange in an action brought by PLUS Markets alleging breaches of domestic and European competition law.
Nicholas also spent the judicial year 2007 to 2008 working as Judicial Assistant to Lord Bingham of Cornhill and Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe at the House of Lords, during which time he observed cases involving a wide range of legal issues – public and private, civil and criminal – arising under the laws of England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the European Union, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the various jurisdictions for which the Privy Council is the final court of appeal.
Nicholas has lectured on the LLM course
Human Rights: Theory & Practice
at King’s College, London, and has also written articles on human rights issues, including in the Cambridge Law Journal and the European Human Rights Law Review. Prior to becoming a solicitor, Nicholas spent time working in the Middle East for the United Nations and other non-governmental organisations on policy and legal matters, including issues of
public international law
and
human rights
.
Nicholas speaks fluent French, having spent six months working in a bilingual office environment in Paris during his training contract, and has a good working knowledge of Spanish and spoken Arabic.