Competition
Our specialist team provides comprehensive support for UK and international clients in all aspects of competition law.
This encompasses both contentious and non-contentious matters, as well as complex transactions.
Clients turn to us to help them:
- Understand and mitigate competition law risk in their business.
- Defend against allegations of anti-competitive conduct.
- Challenge anti-competitive behaviour by third parties.
- Identify transactions subject to merger control and/or foreign direct investment review and shepherd them through the filing and clearance process.
We have extensive experience advising clients in a wide range of sectors and are committed to delivering top-quality, pragmatic, and commercially sound advice.
The team’s areas of expertise include:
- Merger control.
- Foreign direct investment rules, including the UK’s National Security & Investment regime.
- Competition law investigations by the CMA and the UK’s sectoral regulators.
- Competition litigation.
- Distribution and other commercial agreements.
- Compliance audits and training.
- Subsidy control.
We maintain relationships with competition counsel at leading law firms worldwide to support our clients’ international needs.