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Competition Law - UK

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What the Team is Known For

Slaughter and May stands out for its ability to handle high-profile merger clearance mandates, assisting clients with phase I and II reviews before the CMA, as well as acting on highly contentious merger filings that involve disputes around jurisdictional issues. The law firm also offers notable experience in foreign direct investment filings and coordinates wider global regulatory approvals with counsel based in relevant jurisdictions. The team handles behavioural and market investigations for major clients and also boasts notable experience acting on abuse of dominance investigations and stand-alone claims brought in the UK courts. It enjoys a market-leading caseload of follow-on damages and collective proceedings and defending claims filed against various international clients. It also maintains a strong subsidy control practice, often assisting the providers of the subsidy.

Work Highlights

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  • Slaughter and May acted for Activision Blizzard on the UK competition aspects of its USD68.7 billion acquisition by Microsoft, including an appeal before the CAT of the CMA's decision to block the deal.

Strengths

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For the most complex work or urgent questions we have, the team is our first port of call. It has the ability to cut through very difficult matters and give very clear and business-friendly advice.

Competition Law respondent
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Slaughter and May is very much aligned to how we operate and what our expectations are.

Competition Law respondent
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The law firm has a very deep bench of expertise with lawyers that are simultaneously practical and strategic. They also offer excellent customer service in terms of responsiveness and turnaround time.

Competition Law respondent
Europe

The Slaughter and May team analyses complex matters, puts them into context and presents issues to the client in a reasoned, calm and digestible way.

Competition Law respondent
Europe

The lawyers are always helping us to push to find a solution to our commercial objectives, being quite creative in how they do that. They are super responsive.

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Notable Practitioners

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Bertrand Louveaux
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Bertrand Louveaux offers noteworthy strength in phase I and II merger clearance reviews before the CMA, foreign direct investment filings and market studies. He co-chairs the firm's competition group.

I think he is just incredibly impressive and a very gifted lawyer. You know that if you have a really difficult question, it is one for him.

He is a trusted first port of call for the most technical questions.

Bertrand Louveaux is an excellent leader of his team and clearly an expert in his field. He is unfailingly calm, knowledgeable and helpful to the client. You could not ask for a better lead.

He is quite unique and can blend his deep expertise with being incredibly commercial and practical.

Bertrand Louveaux is a brilliant competition lawyer.

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Claire Jeffs
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Claire Jeffs has a strong reputation for acting on phase I and II merger clearance investigations before the CMA, assisting clients from the automotive, technology and telecommunications sectors. She co-chairs the firm's competition group and offers additional experience in appeals against competition law decisions before the General Court of the European Union.

I would say she is a real standout; she is just brilliant.

Claire Jeffs goes from strength to strength.

Her knowledge of sectors like IT is really impressive and she has achieved outstanding results there.

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Camilla Sanger
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Camilla Sanger defends clients in high-profile cartel follow-on damages cases, including representing them in class action proceedings. She also has experience acting for claimants.

Camilla Sanger is very client-friendly, very knowledgeable and thorough.

She is a very hard-working, charming and highly skilled competition lawyer.

She is an incredibly down-to-earth people person. It is fun being on the team with her and she is great at managing the client.

She is always good fun.

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Isabel Taylor
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Band 2

Isabel Taylor has notable experience assisting high-profile technology sector clients with CMA investigations into allegations of anti-competitive behaviour. In addition, she has notable experience in merger control and state aid matters, representing public sector clients in subsidy control mandates.

Isabel Taylor is a state aid specialist.

Isabel Taylor is always helpful, responsive and accurate. She is a great asset to the team.

She is an extremely good solicitor.

She provides very comprehensive competition law advice that is strategic and recognises the overall commercial objectives.

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Elizabeth Jordan
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Elizabeth Jordan assists both claimants and defendants with competition litigation cases, including acting on collective actions and damages claims following cartel decisions.

She has a fabulous degree of experience in competition litigation and is a great person to have on your team.

Elizabeth Jordan has been working very hard and is fantastic. She is very pragmatic and thoughtful.

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Lisa Wright
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Lisa Wright advises clients on merger clearance and foreign direct investment filings, as well as CMA market reviews and investigations into alleged anti-competitive behaviour.

She has a terrific ability to look around corners and anticipate problems before they materialise.

Lisa Wright is one of those rare lawyers who has deep subject matter expertise and experience but still manages to dispense advice that is client-focused and practical.

Lisa Wright's standout quality is that she has been incredibly supportive and available. She is also very calm and rational in how she approaches things.

Lisa Wright is fantastic and very impressive.

Lisa Wright is very good at technical and difficult queries.

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William Turtle
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William Turtle has a particular focus on assisting clients with merger control filings, with further experience advising on NS+I clearances and CMA antitrust investigations.

William Turtle is very knowledgeable about merger control. He is calm, sensible and pragmatic.

William Turtle has done very good work and is very bright.

William Turtle is very client-friendly and in the details of what we do.

He can connect his knowledge to the realities and make the authorities understand.

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Competition Law
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Bertrand Louveaux
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Claire Jeffs
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Isabel Taylor
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Lisa Wright
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William Turtle
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Camilla Sanger
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Elizabeth Jordan
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