Tom Selwyn Sharpe’s practice covers all aspects of U.K., EU and international competition law, including multijurisdictional merger control, antitrust compliance, abuse of dominance, cartel investigations, dawn raids, state aid and wider EU litigation. Mr. Selwyn Sharpe has been involved in several high-profile and complex transactions requiring antitrust clearance before the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), European Commission (EC) and around the world. He also has represented clients in litigation before European courts and counsels clients on matters involving compliance programs. Mr. Selwyn Sharpe recently completed an extended secondment to the CMA, during which time he worked on a number of key Phase I and Phase II merger investigations.
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On November 8, 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), overturning the first instance EU General Court (General Court), annulled the European Commission’s (EC’s) decision that a Luxembourg tax ruling on Fiat’s intragroup financing transactions “did not reflect economic reality” and (...)
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Commissioned by the U.K. government to review its antitrust regime, Conservative Member of Parliament John Penrose’s “Power to the People” report proposes streamlined, modest changes rather than wholesale reform to the current regime. The report’s recommendations are outlined below: Merger reviews (...)
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Following its review of a series of global deals in the digital markets space, the U.K.’s Competition & Markets Authority (the CMA) has launched a consultation on revised merger assessment guidelines (the draft guidelines) codifying its evolving practice in the digital sector and addressing (...)
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On 21 February 2019, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), at the U.K. government’s request, set out ‘wide-ranging and radical’ proposals to reshape U.K. competition enforcement and consumer protection regime. These are proposals at the very earliest stage, and they remain far from (...)
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