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Compliance with competition law and merger control regimes has never been more important.

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.

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What the Team is Known For

Burges Salmon is an outstanding Bristol-based firm that is particularly sought after by clients from the retail, technology and healthcare industries for advice on merger clearance matters. The law firm represents clients in CMA investigations. Additionally, its competition team has expertise on subsidy control mandates and also demonstrates notable experience in regulated sectors, particularly the water industry.

Work Highlights

  • Burges Salmon advised FirstGroup on merger control, competition and national security advice in relation to its £100 million joint venture entity with Hitachi.

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Chris Worrall
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Chris Worrall
Head of Competition Law
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Based in Bristol, Chris Worrall leads the competition law practice of Burges Salmon. He has notable experience in sectors that are subject to recent CMA focus such as technology, retail and healthcare. He advises on a broad array of competition law matters, including merger control, CMA investigations and market studies. He is additionally skilled at assisting with National Security and Investment Act filings.

He is able to articulate very complex issues into easy to understand terms.

Chris Worrall's natural style is very calm and easygoing and he has the experience to back it up. He can reassure the clients.

Chris Worrall is very detailed and cuts straight to the issue that we need to deal with which is really important.

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