Kyle Le Croy
Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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Biography
Kyle is a competition and regulatory litigator based in London. Ranked as a 'key lawyer' by The Legal 500 for EU and Competition Law (2021, 2022), Kyle has also been a member of the teams awarded or shortlisted as 'Competition and Regulatory Team of the Year' at The Lawyer Awards (2018, 2020) and the Legal Business Awards (2018, 2020). He also has in-house experience as a secondee to a global energy company.
Kyle represents regulated companies subject to licensing regimes and rules that set the parameters of how they can do business in advance, including in the energy, water, rail, air traffic, telecoms, and financial sectors. Kyle advises clients on how to promote successful regulatory outcomes concerning price control reviews and licence modifications (such as Ofgem's RIIO-ED2, the CAA's H7, and Ofwat's PR24) through strategic engagement and, where necessary, through dispute resolution including challenges under the Freedom of Information Act, Environmental Information Regulations, regulatory appeals procedures, and applications for judicial review. He also acts for claimants and defendants in complex standalone and follow-on competition litigation, including in class actions before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Kyle is a solicitor advocate and has appeared before the European Court of Justice, the European Commission, and the UK Competition and Markets Authority. A member of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association, Kyle holds a BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, a Master's in EU Law from King's College London (Merit), and a BA (Joint Hons) from Yale University (Distinction).
Professional experience
Collapse all- Yale University
- University of Oxford
- King's College London
- Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales
- Solicitor, qualified in Ireland
- BASF - in a judicial review of requests for information by the European Chemicals Agency, including applications for interim measures
- Mastercard - in a judicial review of Her Majesty's Treasury in connection with the Interchange Fee Regulation and Payment Services Directive
- An agrochemicals trade association - in its intervention in judicial review proceedings concerning access to documents under EU freedom of information rules
- An energy company - in relation the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets' price control review relating to electricity distribution (RIIO-ED2) and potential appeal to the CMA of the same
- An investment research reporting firm - in a judicial review of the European Commission's acceptance of commitments concerning an alleged abuse of dominant position in relation to consolidated real-time data feeds
- A biotechnology company - in a judicial review of European Commission regulations concerning the use and marketing of certain plant protection products
- An airline - in relation to the Civil Aviation Authority's price control review relating to Heathrow airport (H7) and potential appeal to the CMA of the same
- A chemicals trade association - in its intervention in judicial review proceedings concerning a substance evaluation by the European Chemicals Agency
- Bondholders - in relation to an EU Member State's transposition of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive and potential judicial review of the same
- A utility company - in relation to class action competition litigation proceedings in connection with its regulatory obligations
- Ranked as a 'key lawyer' by The Legal 500 for EU and Competition Law (2021, 2022)
- Member of the teams awarded or shortlisted as 'Competition and Regulatory Team of the Year' at The Lawyer Awards (2018, 2020) and the Legal Business Awards (2018, 2020)
- Altice Europe v Commission, Case Comment (Utilities Law Review)
- EU/US Patent Settlements: An Overview of Leading Cases (Concurrences, e-Competitions, Art. N° 58749)
- Requests for Information (Concurrences, Global Dictionary of Competition Law, Art. N° 12281)
- Cracks in the Finish: Affirming Fundamental Rights in the Cement Cartel Case (Competition Policy International, Europe Column)
- A Theory of Everything? Intel, Loyalty Rebates, and the Restriction of Competition by Object (Kluwer Competition Law Blog)
- Navigating the Digital Age: the European Commission's Differing Approaches to Merger Control and Abuse of Dominance in the Digital Sector (Competition Policy International, Antitrust Chronicle)
- Assessment of Global Competition Agency Implementation of ABA Best Practices (UK chapter), Report by the Procedural Transparency Task Force, ABA Antitrust Section
- English
- French
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