Since being called in 1998, Brick Court Chambers junior Kelyn Bacon has acted on some of Europe's juiciest competition matters.

The football shirt price-fixing inquiry, the Competition Appeals Tribunal hearing on credit cards and the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) investigation into independent schools' fees... Bacon has been on them all.

In the past 12 months Bacon has had a typically high-profile showing, successfully representing Adidas in the High Court against the International Tennis Federation over the rights of players wearing Adidas's three-stripe logo in championships.

There was also the ne plus ultra of competition cases in the form of Microsoft's ongoing battles with the European Commission. Bacon represented the Association for Competitive Technology as an intervener for Microsoft in the Court of First Instance (CFI) in Luxembourg, her first appearance at the CFI. The outcome at press time was still pending.

This would be a blue-chip performance in anybody's book, but is all the more impressive given that Bacon was only actually practising for six months in 2006 before taking time off to have her second child.