Alastair Mordaunt

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