Alex is the General Counsel for the Payment Systems Regulator. Alex joins the PSR from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as Legal Director and previously the Mergers Director.

Since November 2022 she has been part of the Senior Leadership Team in the Investment Security Unit at the Cabinet Office, leading on national security risk identification, analysis, remedies and enforcement

Alex will be responsible for leading the PSR’s team of expert lawyers and providing legal advice across the PSR – including the PSR Board and Executive Committees.

Simon Burden is head of EU and competition law at Natwest Bank. Simon has 16 years of experience across all aspects of competition law, including merger control, market investigations, cartel investigations, and litigation. He has experience in private practice (Norton Rose Fulbright), competition authorities (the CMA), and in the banking (HSBC and Natwest) and telecoms (Vodafone) industries. As part of his role at Natwest, Simon has oversight of the management of the direct and indirect FDI (particularly UK NSI Act) compliance risks that Natwest manages, as a financial institution.

Ingrid Cameron is a Technical Specialist at the Financial Conduct Authority, working on competition enforcement and policy. She previously worked in competition enforcement at the Office of Fair Trading, following several years in private practice in London and Brussels.

Tim Ward KC, joint Head of Chambers, is widely recognised as a leading litigator and advocate in the fields of competition, telecommunications, public law and EU law. Legal directories list him as a leading individual in each of these fields, and describe him as “a very adept and able strategist”, “a genuinely talented advocate with the intellectual firepower to deal with complex cases” and shows “the highest levels of skill in his cross-examination of witnesses.”

He appears frequently in the courts and Competition Appeal Tribunal in cases including class action certification, cartel penalty appeals, competition damages actions (both follow on and standalone), injunction applications and claims for judicial review under the Enterprise Act 2002.