Alastair Mordaunt
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Practice Areas
Alastair has more than 20 years of experience as a private practitioner and regulator across three continents giving him a deep understanding of working effectively with regulatory regimes to achieve successful outcomes in transactional and investigatory matters.
Dividing his time between Hong Kong and London, Alastair assists clients before Asian, UK and EU regulators across the full range of competition-related work, including merger control and foreign investment, cartels and abuse of dominance issues. Alastair also co-heads the firm’s foreign investment skills group.
Alastair’s government experience includes four years as a senior official at the UK’s competition authority, the Office of Fair Trading. In addition, he was recently a non-governmental adviser to the Hong Kong Competition Commission and for several years to the UK’s competition authority.
Alastair is a frequent speaker at international conferences on competition and foreign investment law and has authored and edited numerous publications on these issues. He also serves as co-Chair of the International Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Merger Working Group.
Career
Alastair has more than 20 years of experience as a private practitioner and regulator, including over 15 years at Freshfields, four years at the UK’s Office of Fair Trading, and five years at another UK law firm.
Professional Memberships
The Law Society of Hong Kong
The Law Society of England and Wales
The Law Society of Ireland
Publications
Competition Law Treatment of Joint Ventures – A Jurisdictional Guide (Co-editor and also co-author for China chapter)
GTDT – Merger Control 2023: Hong Kong
GCR Asia-Pacific Antitrust Review 2017 – 2021: Hong Kong
First blood: Hong Kong Competition Commission triumphs before the tribunal, Competition Law Insight, July 2019, Volume 18, Issue 7 (Nominee of the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Asian Antitrust)
Industry Sector Expertise
Energy and natural resources, manufacturing, life sciences, retail and consumer goods, technology, media and telecommunications (TMT)
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Hong Kong and UK
Languages Spoken
English
Education
St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
BA/MA in Modern Languages
Nottingham Law School
LPC in Law
BPP University Law School
PGDL in Law
Chambers Review
Global
Alastair Mordaunt leads the Hong Kong antitrust team, and handles both local Hong Kong and outbound regional competition matters. He has extensive experience handling high-profile merger filings and HKCC investigations.
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