Shanthi Kandiah

Shanthi heads the competition law/antitrust practice in the firm, which covers a wide range of sectors (insurance, FMCG, construction, building materials, pharmaceutical, aviation services and other service industries).

She also possesses specific sector expertise in the highly-regulated media and telecommunications sector where competition issues are

inextricably intertwined with sector regulation designed to promote competition in particular access regulations and access pricing. She has also recently been intimately involved in advising on the insurance sector and the interaction of sector regulation and competition law.

Her practice focuses on defending clients against infringement allegations as well as working with her clients when engaging with regulators over issues and regulations impacting their businesses. She has covered issues ranging from defending client when faced with cartel and abuse of dominance allegations, merger submissions, dominance determinations, access list regulations, content regulation including censorship rules, pricing and margin squeeze, competitor collaborations, responses to section 18 notices issued under the Competition Act 2010 and risk-based compliance advice. She also provides local counsel support to ‘Magic circle’ firms.