Christopher Cant Vivian Chapman QC Michael Ashe QC SC Isaac Jacob David Rowell Robert Bourne Edward Denehan Martin Young Lynne Counsell Sheila Foley Charles Holbech Timothy Sisley John Smart Philip Flower Helene Pines Richman Lana Wood Peter Shaw Daniel Bromilow Stephen Arthur Elaine Palser Jonathan O'Mahony Joseph Curl Edward Hewitt Conn MacEvilly Overseas members Nicholas Critelli (USA) James Levy QC (Gibraltar) Anthony Provasoli (Gibraltar) Dr Raymond Ashton (Guernsey) Door tenant Marc Beaumont		Conn MacEvilly LLB, LLM Click here for printable version Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1997 by Inner Temple, Conn is also a member of the Irish Bar (1999) and Gibraltar Bar (2005) Core Areas of Expertise Conn's work focuses on five areas: Company Commercial Trusts Regulatory Employment Experience Between completion of pupillage and his joining 9 Stone Buildings in February 2010, Conn was in employed practice. He has extensive experience of advisory and litigation work in both the public and private sectors. Conn joined 9 Stone Buildings after three years as head of legal services at PricewaterhouseCoopers Gibraltar, where he had handled large-scale defensive litigation in Gibraltar and New York, provided in-house anti-money laundering advice and liaison with the United Kingdom and Gibraltar authorities, and assisted companies to which PwC entities provide directors in the rescheduling of $17bn of debt. In 2005 he moved to Gibraltar, joining the litigation team at Hassans and specialising in employment, commercial and administrative law. He represented a trade union in constitutionally-significant litigation against the UK Ministry of Defence (TGWU v Secretary of State for Defence), which succeeded in overturning UK crown immunity from suit in Gibraltar. Conn spent four years in the antitrust and regulatory group at Linklaters LLP in London, conducting multijurisdictional merger control assessment and the required liaison with merger control authorities. He drafted exclusive distribution agreements and the antitrust and regulatory sections of offer documents, annual reports and share purchase agreements. A former Government Legal Service faststreamer, Conn has worked for the European Commission Legal Service in Brussels and the United Kingdom's Department for Trade and Industry (now the Department for Business Innovation and Skills). At the DTI, he was lead drafter of the Distance Selling Regulations. He also advised on European law, in particular concerning employment, consumer protection and the sale of goods, and the implementation of the Human Rights Act in the commercial context. Education Conn read law at Trinity College Dublin, taking an LL.B. degree (which included a year at the University of Paris) in 1994. He also holds an LL.M. in public law from the London School of Economics, obtained in 1995. Conn passed the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law in 1997 and in 2002 was awarded a postgraduate diploma in EU competition law by King's College, London. Click here for printable version

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