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Provided by Slaughter and May

Many of the world’s leading companies turn to us for competition advice on their day-to-day operations as well as business critical projects and investigations. Our clients look to us to deliver outcome-focused advice with pragmatic commercial acumen.

We have a market leading practice in respect of merger control, antitrust (including cartels), sectoral regulation, competition litigation and State aid. That means we can put together a team best suited to work on any competition matter our clients face. We understand the objectives and priorities of the regulators, which enables us to achieve successful results.

We have been consistently ranked among the elite by the legal directories, with individual partners singled out as leaders in their field.


We have offices with market leading expertise in London, Brussels, Hong Kong and Beijing. We have 70 competition specialists spread across our international offices meaning we can handle even the largest and most complex projects.


We advise our clients worldwide. We have close ties with the competition practices of leading law firms across the globe. Our lawyers work with these local experts as a single team.
We focus on effective project and team management at every stage of a project. We also have cutting edge technology which we use on our projects to provide efficient use of resources and ways of working.

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Competition Law: Litigation - London (Firms)

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Slaughter and May stands out for its ability to handle high-profile merger clearance mandates, assisting clients with complex 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.

Work Highlights

  • Slaughter and May advised Vodafone in connection to both EU and UK merger control proceedings relating to a proposed joint venture between the client's and CK Hutchison Holdings' UK telecom businesses.

Strengths

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What distinguishes Slaughters from other firms is its commerciality. This can be a difficult balance but Slaughters has got it absolutely spot on. It makes acting on the advice so much easier.

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Everyone at the firm that you deal with is very knowledgeable, with the ability to get on with things and provide really practical advice. They're the lawyers I trust the most to give a good view.

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From Associates to Senior Counsel to Partners, the depth of knowledge across all levels was remarkable.

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The firm has a huge resource of brilliant lawyers who they can deploy at a moment's notice.

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Our matters have been complex and novel; Slaughter and May has shown significant skill in helping us successfully navigate them with changing dynamics and issues.

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Notable Practitioners

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Claire Jeffs
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Claire Jeffs
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Band 1

Claire Jeffs has a strong reputation for acting on high-profile 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.

Claire Jeffs might be the best merger lawyer in the country. She is an outstanding technical lawyer who has hunger and ambition. She is driven and relentless and clients get a fantastic service.

Claire Jeffs provides excellent advice with a practical approach. She is trusted by those in her field.

Claire Jeffs has provided us with her great expertise. Her experience in complex matters and leading a team shows, as well as her responsiveness.

Claire Jeffs is an excellent lawyer on big merger transactions. She builds strong client relationships and helps navigate them through the regulatory process.

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Camilla Sanger
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Camilla Sanger
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Band 2

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 incredibly sharp on legal issues and is able to organise huge rambling fact-patterns incredibly efficiently.

Camilla Sanger is the perfect partner; she is very, very technical but sees the bigger picture.

She is a fantastic lawyer. She's very client focused and is really a people person, very approachable. I would always want her in my corner.

Camilla Sanger did a brilliant job.

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Isabel Taylor
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Isabel Taylor
2
Band 2

Isabel Taylor has notable experience assisting high-profile technology sector clients with CMA investigations into allegations of anti-competitive behaviour.

Isabel Taylor is consistently very strong and is doing really interesting work. She is a high-end practitioner.

Isabel Taylor is a joy to work with.

I think she's fantastic and rate her very highly. She provides a great client service and is a great person to work with.

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Elizabeth Jordan
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Elizabeth Jordan
4
Band 4

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

Elizabeth Jordan sees things very clearly.

She has good experience and technical expertise. She is also calm and measured in her advice.

Elizabeth Jordan is a very effective litigator. She can see where the work needs to be done and is good at focusing efforts to achieve positive outcomes.

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William Turtle
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William Turtle
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Band 4

William Turtle moves up in the rankings on the back of his focus on assisting clients with high-profile merger control filings, with further experience advising on NS+I clearances and CMA antitrust investigations.

William Turtle was fantastic. He is very commercial and has a huge depth of knowledge.

William Turtle is an incredibly talented lawyer and offers an excellent level of service.

He is a fine communicator. He understands reading between the lines well, gets into issues quickly and he is very sharp. He can add value which was very impressive.

William Turtle is a strong lawyer, who navigates complicated issues and is easy to deal with.

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Lisa Wright
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Lisa Wright
5
Band 5

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

You feel reassured that you have the best representation with Lisa Wright.

Lisa Wright is a really good lawyer.

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Competition Law
Claire Jeffs
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Claire Jeffs
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Band 1
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Isabel Taylor
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Isabel Taylor
2
Band 2
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William Turtle
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William Turtle
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Lisa Wright
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Lisa Wright
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Competition Law: Litigation
Camilla Sanger
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Camilla Sanger
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Elizabeth Jordan
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Elizabeth Jordan
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