Practice Areas
Simon is a partner in Freshfields’ antitrust, competition and trade practice and is based in both London and Dublin. Simon assists clients before regulators, courts and tribunals across the full range of UK and European competition law, including merger control, Articles 101/102 and equivalent UK legislation, and cartel and market/sector investigations. He provides strategic business advice to clients: including on transactions, (including mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joints ventures, carve-outs, licensing, etc); risk management strategies, (e.g. addressing upfront antitrust risks, investigations and litigation strategies); or counselling on discrete compliance challenges and execution of business strategy. His extensive experience includes cutting-edge projects across the financial services, life sciences, consumer goods, technology and media, and private capital sectors.