Jarleth M. Burke
Partner
London
Tel: 44.20.7039.5223
Fax: 44.20.7039.5999
Email:
jarlethburke@jonesday.com
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Jarleth Burke works across a range of sectors in the area of U.K. and EC competition law, specialising in the communication and aviation sectors. He also has experience in utility regulation.
Since joining Jones Day in 2002 he has helped the Firm develop an extensive telecommunications practice in the Caribbean and last year had overall regulatory and antitrust responsibility for Digicel's acquisition of the Caribbean operations of Cingular Wireless and Bouygues Telecom, transactions that involved 14 different jurisdictions. Jarleth is also Digicel's principal external legal adviser on all regulatory and competition issues. His other clients include O2 and British Telecom, and BUPA, which he represents before the European Commission and the European Court of First Instance.
From 1994 to 2000, Jarleth was general counsel with ESAT Telecom in Ireland and while serving at the Commission for Aviation Regulation in Ireland his work concentrated on the legal aspects of economic regulation. While earning his master's degree in Chicago, Jarleth also completed research into spectrum auctioning, licence valuations, and licensing mechanisms for nonexclusive use of designated frequencies.
He has spoken at many international conferences on telecommunications regulation, including at the International Bar Association in Copenhagen in May 1997. Jarleth is also the Irish correspondent for the Computer & Telecommunications Law Review.
Admitted
Ireland and England & Wales
Education
University College Dublin (Bachelor of Civil Law 1993; LL.M. in European Law 1994); Honourable Society of the King's Inns (Barrister of Law degree 2000); Law Society of Ireland (Diploma in E-Commerce Law 2001); The University of Chicago (LL.M. in Comparative Law 2002, concentrating on antitrust, telecommunications, and network industries)
Government/Military Service
Head of Legal Affairs and Deputy Commissioner, Commission for Aviation Regulation, Dublin, Ireland (2000-2001)
Languages
English, French, Irish