Philip Mansfield

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Philip Mansfield has led meetings with agencies around the world on merger, cartel and behavioural matters for various clients, including with the European Commission, UK agencies, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Court of North California, South Korea's Fair Trade Commission, the Japan Fair Trade Commission and China's Ministry of Commerce.

Philip regularly obtains approval for complex mergers and joint venture arrangements, particularly in the high-tech sector and was twice a winner of the Global Competition Review Matter of the Year. His experience includes advising Maersk Drilling on its merger with Noble Corporation; Maersk on its acquisition of LF Logistics; NortonLifeLock on its acquisition of Avast; Refinitiv (and shareholder Blackstone) on the EC review and worldwide filings of Refinitiv's proposed USD27bn acquisition by the London Stock Exchange Group; Symantec Corporation on the US$10.7 billion sale of its Enterprise business to Broadcom; Hitachi on its JV with Honda in the automotive sector; a multinational information technology company on its acquisition of Apogee; Cisco on the sale of its NDS business; GitHub on its sale to Microsoft and Seagate on its acquisition of Samsung HDD and Xyratex.