We work closely with our clients to help them understand and comply with the competition law rules.
This includes guiding them on day-to-day competition compliance queries, designing competition compliance policies (including through the provision of e-learning), offering genuinely engaging competition law and dawn raid training, and carrying out audits of data to assess latent competition law exposure.
We also have considerable experience supporting our clients in investigations by the CMA and other competition regulators (such as the FCA and the European Commission), as well as guiding them through the merger control and other regulatory clearance aspects of corporate transaction.
We recognise that our role as competition advisers involves much more than simply knowing the law. Our role is to also help you understand, in practical terms, what the rules mean to you.
Whether we are helping businesses ensure they comply with competition law – for example, through in-person training, e-learning or written advice and guidance – or guiding businesses in relation to conduct under scrutiny before the courts or competition authorities, we work with them closely to ensure we understand their business and the markets in which they operate.
We routinely work with colleagues that are specialised in particular practice areas and sectors, to ensure a holistic approach. Our advice on EU law, meanwhile, is provided by EU qualified lawyers ensuring that you get the benefit of legal privilege for any advice given on sensitive matters.
Our profile
We are the go-to competition advisors to numerous household name clients, domestic and international, who recognise and appreciate the practical and pragmatic way in which we deliver competition law advice.
We often engage in novel legal issues, such as those arising in the mobility and technology sectors, contributing to reputed legal and business journals and speaking on topics that are debated in the legal and business community.
How we can help
We provide clear, commercially astute and pragmatic advice on all aspects of competition law across a wide range of industry sectors, with significant experience in:
- advisory and compliance issues, with strong credentials in sectors including automotive, financial services, data and technology (including digital markets), media and retail
- competition law relating to local markets, such as retail and leisure mergers (see our client guide Local Market Mergers)
- competition litigation, in the context of both follow-on and stand-alone claims
- the UK/EU interface, relating to competition law and overlapping topics such as data, technology and vertical agreements
- trade law, including its overlap with competition law, subsidies and State aid
- national security filings, both for UK transactions and similar regimes in the EU and elsewhere.
We are regularly one of the top three M&A law firms in the UK measured by deal volume. As a result, we have considerable experience in guiding clients through the merger control and national security process – in the UK, the EU and elsewhere.
For further details including examples of our experience please see:
- competition investigations
- competition law – advisory & compliance
- competition litigation
- dawn raid support
- merger control
- The National Security and Investment Act 2021
