Ruth Allen is a professional support lawyer in the competition, regulation and trade practice at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, based in London. She provides technical advice to clients and colleagues on issues of both substantive competition law and procedure, and is also responsible for know-how resources and training programmes. Ruth previously worked as an associate in the team, and has a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious experience across all aspects of EU and UK competition law. She has a particular interest in competition litigation and foreign direct investment regulation.
2023 Awards
2021 Awards
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ECJ rules for the first time on "pay-for-delay" agreementsHerbert Smith Freehills Competition Notes Blog, Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Dafni Katrana and Ruth Allen, February 6, 2020
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Supreme Court ruling in Merricks: Some important clarifications but a number of unresolved issuesHerbert Smith Freehills Competition Notes blog, Kim Dietzel, Stephen Wisking, Daniel Woods and Ruth Allen, December 15, 2020
2020 Awards
Distinctions
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Private Enforcement
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Private Enforcement
