Anthony Rosen
Anthony is a Legal Director in Bird & Bird's Commercial Department and enjoys supporting clients on the global challenges facing the digital and communications sector as well as other regulated industries building on his significant telecommunications and competition law experience.
He has expertise across the full spectrum of regulatory, competition, telecommunications and compliance matters encountered by businesses operating in and around the digital, tech and media space. He has spent time in-house at one of the world's most prominent tech companies and brings expertise, insight and a highly commercial understanding of client requirements and deliver business focused advice.
Earlier in Anthony’s career, he worked at a leading communications regulator which afforded him a valuable insight into the regulatory process as well as a solid foundation in UK and EU telco regulation. He is well placed to advise on compliance, market studies, mergers, sector inquiries as well as the fast-changing regulatory landscape. He has extensive regulatory litigation experience having worked on appeals before the Competition Appeal Tribunal as well as disputes.
He has a keen interest in evolving international OTT and Platform regulation as regulators seek to keep pace with the constant innovation in the dynamic tech sector and the challenges of the Data economy. He enjoys the constant intellectual challenge this provides, advising clients on the application of current and future laws to emerging technologies and helping them to deliver their strategic priorities.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2000
Experience
- Meta, Inc (previously Facebook) (2017 - 2019)
- Sky Limited (2010 - 2017)
- Ofcom (2006 - 2010)
- McDermott Will Emery LLP (2002 - 2006)
Membership
- Law society
Education
- Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London - LLB – English and European Law (1992-1996)
- College of Europe, Bruges - LLM – European Law (1997-1998)
1 Contributions by Anthony Rosen
PRACTICE NOTES
UK DMCCA 2024 digital markets regime: SMS designations, conduct requirements, PCIs, merger reporting, investigatory powers, penalties and appeals; CMA/DMU implementation, investigations and EU DMA comparison
Framework
This Practice Note offers practical guidance on the UK competition law landscape for major online platforms, drawing principally on Part 1 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA 2024). DMCCA 2024 secured Royal Assent on 24 May 2024, and the digital markets provisions discussed in this Practice Note, set out in DMCCA 2024, Pt 1, entered into force on 1 January 2025 by means of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (Commencement No 1 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/1226 (see: LNB News 28/11/2024 7). DMCCA 2024 introduced:
a digital competition regime for digital markets in the UK (Digital Competition Regime)
reforms to the UK competition regime via amendments to the Competition Act 1998 (CA 1998) and the Enterprise Act 2002 (EnA 2002)
enhanced consumer protection measures
For more on DMCCA 2024 and the changes to the competition regime, see Practice Note: The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024: key competition and digital markets provisions. For more on the enhanced consumer protection measures, see Practice Note: The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024—key consumer protection provisions. The Digital Competition Regime applies...
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