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Matthew Giles

Hogan Lovells (Brussels)

Lawyer (Associate)

Matthew Giles was associate at Hogan Lovells (Brussels); His practice focuses primarily on EU and UK competition law. Matthew has experience in EU and UK merger control with respect to filings before the European Commission and the UK Office of Fair Trading and is active in the analysis and coordination of merger filings required outside the European Union and the United States. Matthew also works with the firm’s international trade team where he counsels and advises clients on export control matters.

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Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte

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Angus Coulter

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Hogan Lovells (London)

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6974 Bulletin

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

25 March 2020 72

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 (...)

Mark Jones, Matthew Giles The UK Competition Authority issues its annual plan for 2020/2021 which aims to give clarity to the Competition Authority’s objectives for the next year and clarifies its position during the social and economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 outbreak

24 March 2020 187

The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") recently issued its Annual Plan for 2020/2021, which aims to give clarity to the CMA’s objectives for the next year. The report acknowledges that its publication comes out at a time of massive social and economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 (...)

Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte, Raphael Fleischer, Matthew Giles The EU Commission publishes a report on competition policy for the digital sector

4 April 2019 320

On 4 April 2019, the European Commission published the much anticipated Report Competition Policy for the digital era (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). Authored by a panel of special advisers (all academics) appointed by Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, the Report explores (...)

Matthew Giles The UK OFT finds that an exchange of information on independant school fees violates national competition provisions but accepts a "structured settlement" (Independent Schools)

20 November 2006 2839

Office of Fair Trading, 20 November 2006, Decision n° CA98/05/2006, Exchange of information on future fees by certain independent fee-paying schools, Case CE/2890-03 In late December 2006, the UK Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") published a decision in which it found the exchange of commercially (...)

Catriona Hatton, Matthew Giles The Irish Government abolishes a below-cost pricing regulation (Groceries Order)

8 November 2005 3556

On 8 November 2005, the Irish government announced that it would revoke the much maligned Restrictive Practices (Groceries) Order 1987 (“Groceries Order”) legislation that was enacted to tackle anti-competitive below-cost pricing conducted by large retailers. In its place, the government (...)