Our antitrust and competition lawyers can guide you through the investigation process anywhere in the world.
They can lead to heavy fines, brand damage, and sometimes, criminal liability.
If you find yourself under investigation, you need a legal team you can trust to guide you through this complex area. We have extensive experience defending clients under investigation by authorities around the world, including the European Commission, individual EU member states, the UK, the US Department of Justice, the US Federal Trade Commission, US state antitrust enforcement agencies, and Asia competition agencies.
This experience enables us to give you the best possible service. With teams on the ground across our global network, we can provide support throughout the entire life cycle of an investigation, from dawn raids through key strategic decision making and resolution. This includes applications for immunity, coordinating internal investigations, responding to authority requests, and advising on key strategic decision all the way to case closure and beyond. We will deal with the investigating authorities and design an effective strategy to protect your rights and minimize your liability. We understand when to take a robust approach and when to focus on building a constructive relationship with the authorities.
Working quickly can be particularly crucial in this kind of investigation. To help you respond promptly, we deploy our in-house forensic data review platform to support a rapid and cost effective data review process in multiple languages, without the need to engage an external provider. Our global reach and years of experience allow us to guide you through the challenges of a competition investigation, wherever it arises, and to provide a seamless, coordinated approach across the relevant markets.
Our sole aim is to achieve the best possible outcome for your business.
Our recent experience in antitrust and competition law includes acting for the following:
- a new entrant into the retail energy supply market where the client was almost entirely dependent on a price comparison website for access to customers. We prepared a complaint to the UK competition regulator regarding the terms on which the client’s offering was visible to consumers on the price comparison website. We achieved a commercial settlement securing the client’s visibility and flow of business
- a well-known American web hosting service provider on resale price maintenance issues and the structure of its relationships with third parties where the client’s products and services were provided on a turnkey solution or a white label basis. This included advising the client on a UK competition investigation into the terms for consumers and successfully achieving closure of the investigation
- a global household products manufacturer in the European Commission’s detergents cartel investigation. We attended the dawn raid at the global headquarters and coordinated the defense of raids in seven other jurisdictions. We defended our client in the subsequent two year investigation, after which no charges were filed against our client even though its major rivals were fined over €300 million
- a household appliances company in connection with the EU Commission sector inquiry into the internet of things, a high profile inquiry that will be used to inform the EU Commission’s approach to competition policy in the digital economy
- a global insurance firm in an investigation of the aviation insurance market before the European Commission, as well as coordinating derivative investigations in Brazil and in Singapore;
- an agricultural producer in a nationwide antitrust class action and related opt-out litigation involving allegations of price fixing and supply restrictions
- a Fortune 500 company in dozens of antitrust actions, consolidated in a multidistrict litigation (MDL), alleging an alleged a conspiracy among insurance companies to set rates
- a NASDAQ-traded healthcare company in defense of aFederal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation and subsequent grand jury investigation of alleged antitrust violations
"Competition Team of the Year 2018 (Legal Business Awards)"
2020
"British Legal Awards 2017 (Competition Team of the Year – highly commended)"
2017
"Behavioural Matter of the Year Europe 2017 (Global Competition Review)"
2017
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