Jeremy Scholes
MA (Cantab.), CertHEE (Brugge), FRSA, Solicitor
Email: Jeremy.Scholes.1@city.ac.uk
Jeremy Scholes has law degrees from Cambridge and the Collège d'Europe in Belgium. He qualified as an English solicitor with the City of London law firm which is now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He was in full-time private practice until 1993, latterly as a partner in Eversheds, a law firm with offices across the UK (where he set up and for several years led the competition and EU law practice group nationally).
He made a career change in 1993 when he joined the law faculty at the University of Sheffield, and spent many years there prior to joining The City Law School. He works in English and French, and speaks reasonable German and Dutch as well.
Jeremy's main area of work for many years has been competition law, though he comes from a background of being a more generally based commercial lawyer, and retains interests in other areas as well.
He teaches or is developing at City LLM courses on general competition law, merger control, a course called "Not cartels: permitted co-operation between competitors" and current issues in business contracting, and contributes to the LL.M. courses on international cartel law, anti-trust litigation and the state, competition and regulation and to the undergraduate courses on competition law and contract law.
He is a contributing editor of Butterworths Competition Law, the leading loose-leaf reference work on the subject, where he is responsible for the section "Horizontal agreements likely to be permitted".
Amongst many other publications, he is the co-author (with Dr. Séverine Saintier) of Commercial Agents and the Law (Lloyd's of London Press, 1st edition, 2005). This has been described by the author of Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency (the leading text on general agency in English law) as "now the standard reference work" on this specialised part of the subject (Reynolds, [2006] LMCLQ 432) and was heavily relied upon and cited with approval by the House of Lords in Lonsdale v. Howard & Hallam Ltd., [2007] UKHL32, currently the leading case on commercial agency in English law.
He is a former chairman of the Law Society's European Group regional group in the East Midlands. He has been a national reporter for the Ligue internationale du droit de la concurrence (LIDC), and led the Competition Law Association's working group on what became the Competition Act 1998. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2001.
He has since 2001 been professeur invité in the law faculty at the Université Nancy 2 at Nancy in NE France.
Since the late 1990s, Jeremy has been a consultant with Walker Morris, a leading regional law firm based in Leeds in northern England, where he heads the competition law practice.
Jeremy's practising work is principally competition law, a field in which he has over 25 years' experience in the full range of commercial contexts (investigations, litigation, transactions, advisory/compliance work) and across a wide range of sectors. He has been treated in a detailed costs assessment by a senior costs judge in the English High Court as the equivalent of Queen's Counsel, and has been recognized in The Legal 500 and The Chambers' Guide to the Legal Profession as an expert in competition and EU law.
To contact Jeremy, please email jeremy.scholes@city.ac.uk