Jonathan Branton
{{short description|British lawyer}}
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Jonathan Branton is an English lawyer. He is Head of EU/Competition at the English law firm DWF and also leads the Government & Public Sector group. He is a specialist on UK and EU Competition and EU State Aid Law.{{cite web|url=http://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/nlj/content/jonathan-branton-dwf|title=Business law firm DWF has recruited leading EU competition specialist, Jonathan Branton, as national head of EU competition.|publisher=New Law Journal|accessdate=11 March 2015}} 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.
Competition and State Aid Law
Branton is head of EU/Competition Law at DWF. Previously he was a partner at Cobbetts LLP,{{cite web|url=http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/2219471/dwf-signs-up-cobbetts-eu-competition-head-to-lead-firms-practice |title=DWF signs up Cobbetts head of EU competition to lead firm's practice|publisher=Legal Week |accessdate=11 March 2015}} premier Irish law firm Matheson, and a partner in the Brussels office of Hammonds LLP.{{cite web|url=http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/1150912/hammonds-hit-brussels-partner-loss |title=Hammonds hit by latest Brussels partner loss|publisher=Legal Week |accessdate=11 March 2015}} He is qualified as an English and Irish solicitor.{{cite web|url=https://dwfgroup.com/en/people/j/jonathan-branton|title=DWF Group website|accessdate=17 April 2020}}
He has written on EU State aid and competition law, and on EU Trade Law.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/europeanbusines00joll|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/europeanbusines00joll/page/26 26]|quote=jonathan branton article.|title=The European Business Handbook 2003|year=2003|publisher=Kogan Page Publishers|isbn=9780749439750 |editor=Adam Jolly |accessdate=11 March 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2014/07/a-boost-for-local-economies/|title=A boost for local economies|publisher=Public Finance|accessdate=11 March 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20150311125600/http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2014/07/a-boost-for-local-economies/|archivedate=11 March 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lexology.com/1194/author/Jonathan_Branton/ |title=Articles by Jonathan Branton|publisher=Globe Business Publishing Ltd|accessdate=11 March 2015}}J. Branton, Trade Law Meets Antitrust in the European Court: Judgment in Mukand v Council, International Trade Law Review, 2001, p. 184 et seq. He wrote with Professor David O'Keeffe a ground-breaking article which has now become a classic on urban regeneration in the UK and EU State Aid Law.{{cite web|url=http://www.lexxion.de/pdf/estal/EStAL3-2007.pdf |title=State Aid and Urban Regeneration: A UK Perspective|author1=J. Branton |author2=D. O'Keeffe |publisher=European State Aid Law Quarterly (2007)|accessdate=11 March 2015}} The legal directories rate him particularly highly for his State aid expertise.[https://dwfgroup.com/en/people/j/jonathan-branton Jonathan Branton profile]
EU and WTO Trade Law
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.{{cite web|url=http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=61999TJ0058&lang1=en&type=TXT&ancre= |title=Case T-58/99, Mukand Ltd, Isibars Ltd, Ferro Alloys Corporation Ltd and Viraj Impoexpo Ltd v Council of the European Union|accessdate=29 September 2016}} Other well-known trade law cases include Europe Chemi-Con (Deutschland) v Council,{{cite web|url=http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=62002CJ0422&lang1=en&type=TXT&ancre= |title=Case C-422/02 P, Europe Chemi-Con (Deutschland) GmbH v Council of the European Union |accessdate=29 September 2016}} Moser Baer India Ltd v Council of the European Union,{{cite web|url=http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=62003TJ0300&lang1=en&type=TXT&ancre= |title=Case T-300/03, Moser Baer India Ltd v Council of the European Union |accessdate=29 September 2016}} and many others. His expert writings on EU trade law in leading journals have been judicially cited with approval.{{cite web|url=http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?language=en&jur=C,T,F&num=535/06P&td=ALL# |title=Opinion of Advocate General Trstenjak, Case C-535/06 P, Moser Baer India Ltd v Council of the European Union |accessdate=29 September 2016}}
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