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Christopher Hutton

Hogan Lovells (London)
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Christopher Hutton is a partner in Hogan Lovell’s Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice, based out of London. He advises on all aspects of UK and EC competition law, and has represented clients on a broad range of contentious matters (including High Court litigation, cartel investigations and abuse of market power inquiries), market investigations, market power assessments and transactional matters (including mergers, joint ventures and other commercial arrangements). Christopher advises clients in a range of industries, including professional services, retail, financial institutions and regulated utilities. He represents clients before the European and UK courts and competition authorities, and advises on a broad range of compliance issues.

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4494 Bulletin

Mez Azizi, Angus Coulter, Christopher Hutton, Stelios Charitopoulos, Sophie Vriezen, Michiko Jo The UK Government publishes a flagship draft bill to increase antitrust scrutiny of digital markets

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On 25 April 2023, the Government published the long-anticipated draft Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill), consolidating the results of two consultations launched in July 2021. If enacted, the Bill will introduce a broad range of competition and consumer law reforms, as (...)

Angus Coulter, Christopher Hutton, Stelios Charitopoulos, Mez Azizi The UK Government publishes the long-awaited draft Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill which introduces a broad range of reforms in respect of competition and consumer law

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On 25 April 2023, the UK Government published the long-awaited draft Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the “Bill”). The Bill will introduce a broad range of reforms (including in respect of competition and consumer law). In relation to digital markets, the Bill fleshes out a (...)

Christopher Hutton, Mez Azizi, Matt Giles, Angus Coulter, Alice Wallace-Wright The UK Competition Authority unwinds merger between the two largest suppliers of "ready to bake" products to national grocery retailers (Cerelia / Jus-Rol)

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The CMA has concluded that a merger between the two largest suppliers of ready to bake products to UK grocery retailers should be unwound, highlighting the risks of choosing to complete mergers without first receiving CMA clearance. On 20 January 2023, the UK Competition and Markets (...)

Christopher Hutton, Matt Giles, Falk Schöning, Christopher Thomas, Harrison Gower The EU Commission adopts guidelines on "solo self-employed" persons and their collective bargaining rights

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The European Commission has adopted guidelines addressing the application of EU competition law to the "solo self-employed". The guidelines clarify situations in which certain self-employed individuals may work collectively to seek improvements in working conditions without falling foul of (...)

Christopher Peacock, Christopher Hutton, Robert Gardener, Mez Azizi, Matt Giles The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy prohibits the acquisition of British intellectual property by a Chinese Company (Beijing Infinite Vision Technology / University of Manchester)

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The UK Government this week prohibited the acquisition of intellectual property owned by the University of Manchester by a Chinese company – marking the first time the UK Government has exercised its powers to block a transaction under new national security rules. On 20 July 2022, the UK’s (...)

Christopher Hutton, Christopher Peacock, Matt Giles The UK Government announces a series of proposed reforms to competition law enforcement aiming to produce a “best in class” competition regime to allow the UK to exploit post-Brexit opportunities

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In what could herald the most significant changes to the UK competition regime in 25 years, the UK Government has announced a series of proposed reforms to UK competition law enforcement. The stated aims of the reforms are to produce a “best in class” competition regime to allow the UK to (...)

Christopher Hutton, Christopher Peacock, Joe Beautridge The UK Government consults on proposals aimed at improving its competition regime and strengthening its Competition Authority post-COVID-19, including updates to merger review, investigation tools, interim measures, fines and more direct intervention in consumer protection

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On 20 July 2021, the government launched a consultation containing substantial proposals that could herald the most important reform of the UK competition regime in 25 years (the consultation). The proposals follow multiple reports and papers and, if they survive the consultation process, (...)

Charles Brasted, Christopher Hutton, Alice Wallace-Wright, Matt Giles, Robert Gardener The UK Government launches the Digital Markets Unit as the first step towards an unashamedly pro-competition regime focused on the position of Big Tech

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The UK Government has launched the much anticipated Digital Markets Unit (DMU) as a first step towards an “unashamedly pro-competition" regime focused on the position of “tech giants”. The DMU will, however, initially lack its own enforcement powers and there is still a lot to play for in (...)

Susan Bright, Charles Brasted, Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte, Angus Coulter, Christopher Hutton The EU Commission publishes an assessment and seeks feedback on its initiative to define the application of EU competition law to collective bargaining agreements for self-employed workers

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On 6 January 2021, the European Commission published an "Inception Impact Assessment" seeking feedback on an initiative aimed at defining EU competition law’s scope of application to "self-employed" workers (in advance of an open public consultation anticipated for spring 2021). This is part (...)

Simi Malhi, Ciara Kennedy-Loest, Christopher Hutton, Matt Giles, Angus Coulter, Mark Jones The UK Competition Authority publishes guidance on forms of cooperation considered as temporarily permissible during the COVID-19 outbreak

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Competition/antitrust laws generally require rival firms to operate on the market independently of each other and tolerate cooperation between competitors only in limited circumstances where any resulting loss of competition is clearly offset by consumer benefits. But as businesses scramble to (...)

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