Antitrust, competition and regulatory
‘The group offers expertise across the full range of merger, competition litigation and anti-competitive behavioural matters… “We are perfectly pleased – they are transparent in communicating with us and all deadlines have been met.”’
Chambers UK, 2012
In an increasingly regulated age, your business requires a law firm with expertise across all areas of competition and antitrust work. Our global competition team offers an integrated and expert service to the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, Africa, and Latin America.
Our international team of over 100 specialist competition lawyers provides the full range of antitrust services to clients in our key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and pharmaceuticals and life sciences. Our services are regularly relied on by a range of prominent clients, for both big-ticket merger control work and non-transactional matters including competition litigation.
With in-house experience of governments and competition authorities across the globe, we maintain an expert understanding of local, EU and international competition regulation and offer our clients a service with a deep understanding of their policies and priorities. We also act as regular counsel to a number of government and regulatory bodies around the world, strengthening our relationships with the world’s key stakeholders in competition law.
Our areas of work include:
- cartel investigations
- competition compliance
- competition litigation
- market investigations
- mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
- public procurement
- state aid
- utilities and sector regulation
- WTO and international trade
Our recent work:
- Representing Asda in its appeal against the OFT’s decision in the UK tobacco pricing case - achieving an order that the adverse decision and £14 million fine be quashed
- Advising PricewaterhouseCoopers on the UK Competition Commission sector inquiry into audit services
- Advising G4S plc in the UK on the £5.2 billion acquisition of ISS
- Representing FLS Plast A/S in its appeal against the European Commission's Article 101 decision in relation to the “Industrial bags” cartel
- Advising the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on the merger clearance action sought by APA Group in its AU$800 million hostile bid for the Epic Pipeline business of Hastings Diversified Fundson
- Advising Japan Airlines International Co Ltd on negotiating a key price fixing settlement with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for AU$5.5 million in the air cargo cartel proceedings
- Advising Westco Group Inc in its decision to cease doing business with Nadeau Poultry with the leave of the Competition Tribunal and the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal
Awards and accolades:
- Competition/Regulatory Team of the Year 2012, The Lawyer Awards
- Leading Canadian firm 2011, Global Competition Review