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Ciaran Walker is an independent consultant, specialising in advising on competition law and regulation in the communications industry. For over 11 years, to April 2010, Ciaran was Senior Competition Counsel at BT Group Plc. Ciaran has over 20 years' experience of advising in complex competition and regulatory law investigations and litigation before the UK and EU authorities and courts. Ciaran has led BT teams in a number of cutting-edge Competition Act cases before Ofcom and the Competition Appeal Tribunal, including the major Ofcom investigations into BT’s broadband pricing, which involved allegations of a 'margin squeeze'. Furthermore, he has represented BT in a number of Competition Commission investigations. Ciaran has also been centrally involved in BT’s regulatory strategy on entertainment content-related issues. In particular : • Ofcom's pay TV market investigation (following which Ofcom has required Sky to wholesale some of its key premium sports channels to third parties, including BT); • the proposed 'Canvas' IPTV joint venture, which includes BT, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. Prior to joining BT, in 1989, Ciaran was a Senior Associate at the City law firm Simmons & Simmons. His experience at Simmons & Simmons included pleading in high-profile cases before the European Court of Justice and European General Court.