Alastair Chapman
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)
Managing Partner
Alastair Chapman has been working at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer since 2001. He is the managing partner of the UK antitrust, competition and trade practice. He is based in London but also spends time working in Brussels and has previously worked in Washington DC. He advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition law, and related commercial strategy. He has extensive experience representing clients before EU and national regulators and courts, and regularly leads complex cross-border transactions and investigations. He has significant expertise working closely with clients across a broad range of sectors including consumer products and retail, financial services, private equity, food service, and technology media and telecoms. He is equally at home counselling in-house lawyers and executives, and coordinating large multi-national teams. His commercial approach to what can be a technical area of law means that he provides clear and pragmatic advice, and is conscious that the law is often only one part of the solution.
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James Aitken
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)
David Aitman
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)
Oyebola Ajayi
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)
Ramya Arnold
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)
Fabrizio Arossa
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Rome)
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has updated its guidelines on the way it assesses mergers to take account of the significant economic changes that have taken place since it published its previous guidance in 2010. The CMA is taking an increasingly interventionist approach to (...)
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Although many competition authorities are making considerable efforts to ensure “business as usual” during the COVID-19 crisis, the pandemic is inevitably having a material impact on merger control reviews around the globe. In addition to the obvious timing implications, deals are now being, and (...)
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The Commission’s decision on 27 June 2019 to impose a €28 million fine on Canon for breaching EU notification and standstill obligations is the latest in a series of cases showing the Commission’s determination to take action against procedural infringements of EU merger control. It follows a 3 (...)
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On 31 May 2018, the EU’s Court of Justice (ECJ) gave judgment in the EY / KPMG case on whether the EU suspension obligation was violated when KPMG’s Danish unit terminated a material contract prior to receiving competition clearance for its merger with Ernst & Young (EY). The ECJ concluded (...)
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European Commission decision provides guidance on how merging parties can mitigate the risk of ’gun jumping’ Following on from our update on this topic in April, the European Commission (Commission) has published the non-confidential version of its decision to fine multinational cable and (...)
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The European Commission (Commission) announced today its decision to fine multinational cable and telecoms company Altice €124.5 million for breaching the EU Merger Regulation by implementing its 2015 acquisition of a telecommunications operator, PT Portugal, before notification to, or approval (...)
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1. Financial crisis We are writing this foreword during a period of virtually unprecedented economic disarray. At the time of drafting, a deal has just been hammered out to protect Greece from default on its sovereign debt, but uncertainty still remains as to whether other Eurozone countries - (...)
Books
2013 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
Date
12 December 2012
