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Our competition and merger control team, with expertise in all areas of competition law as well as merger control and foreign investment review, provides pragmatic advice to ensure our clients achieve their commercial objectives.
Competition and regulatory authorities use their increased powers to scrutinise and challenge mergers, punish anti-competitive conduct, and reform markets where competition is not working well.
Our top-ranked competition and merger control team provides expert advice on all aspects of competition law, including dawn raids and cartel investigations, abuse of dominance matters, market studies and investigations, compliance matters and competition litigation.
Our team also has considerable experience advising on merger control matters and the UK’s National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) where it has worked on a number of high-profile transactions.
We draw on our experience of working in-house with clients, gaining a detailed understanding of their needs and, importantly, the markets they operate in. We provide tailored advice to meet the specific needs of our clients and deliver practical and commercially-driven solutions.
Where our clients require advice on international matters, we work with our network of preferred firms around the world to support them.
Devising compliance policies and programmes, audits, risk assessments and training.
Defending clients subject to cartel investigations and advising on leniency applications.
Advising clients on foreign investment review matters, including NSIA notifications and approvals.
Assisting clients throughout market studies and market investigations including the design and implementation of remedies.
Advising on abuse of dominance investigations and other competition law investigations.
Advising on subsidy control rules.
Advising clients on the application of competition law to commercial agreements, joint ventures, strategic alliances, distribution arrangements, information exchange, business strategies and conduct.
Carrying out merger control assessments and multi-jurisdictional filing analyses, and assisting clients in obtaining clearance for mergers and joint ventures including Phase I and complex Phase II reviews.
Competition litigation and disputes: representing clients involved in competition disputes, including appeals against regulators’ decisions, judicial review proceedings, standalone and follow-on claims, and commercial disputes.
We support clients during dawn raids as well as prepare clients for dawn raids, including advising on dawn raid manuals and providing training and carrying out mock dawn raids.
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