Laura joined McCann FitzGerald in July 2011 and has been a Partner in our Antitrust and Competition practice since May 2019. She has broad experience across all areas in competition and antitrust law including merger control, abuse of dominance issues, horizontal and vertical agreements, Irish and EU competition law investigations, State aid and telecoms. Laura was based in our Brussels office for over four years and is acutely aware of European competition law developments. She also has an important network of European officials and competition lawyers. Laura was educated in NUI Galway and Oxford University.

David Parker advises companies facing competition investigations in relation to agreements, abuses of dominance, market studies and investigations and mergers across national and supranational jurisdictions and in relation to state aid, across a wide range of sectors. 

Mr. Parker has been involved in many of the highest-profile merger and abuse of dominance cases in Europe, including Meta/Kustomer, Meta/GIPHY, Tesco/Booker, Just Eat/Hungryhouse and Whistl vs Royal Mail. He has acted for investigated parties on market investigations, covering sectors such as groceries, retail banking, retail energy, movies, local bus services, aggregates/cement/ready-mix concrete, private healthcare and investment consulting. 

Mr. Parker acts as an economic expert in litigation cases, including standalone cases relating to breaches of competition law and follow-on damages cases arising from breaches of competition and other laws. He has extensive experience in acting in representative actions. He regularly testifies in courts and tribunals and has given evidence in the England and Wales High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Northern Ireland High Court, Ireland High Court, First-Tier Tribunal (Regulatory), First-Tier Tax Tribunal, London Court of International Arbitration and Milan Court of Appeal. 

Mr. Parker is recognised as a current Global Elite Thought Leader in Competition Economics by Who’s Who Legal. 

Anna-Marie Curran is a partner in A&L Goodbody's EU, Competition & Procurement group. She has extensive experience in competition law, procurement law, sectoral regulation, EU and Irish merger filings, cartels, State aid, competition law enforcement and immunity applications.

Anna-Marie advises a wide range of clients across contentious and non-contentious competition law and procurement law matters. She has represented clients in the Irish and Northern Ireland courts and before the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Commission.