Nick Wolfe joined Skadden’s Brussels office in December 2014 and is an associate in the European Union/International Competition group. Nick has advised on merger control filings with the European Commission and authorities in other jurisdictions in relation to transactions in various sectors. Nick has also advised on antitrust compliance in relation to Articles 101 and 102 and state aid. Prior to Skadden, Nick worked for Clifford Chance in London and Tokyo and before entering law, worked in financial services regulation from 2006 to 2010. Nick is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where he studied his first degree in Economics, the City Law School, London and the College of Law, Moorgate and is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
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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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The European Union (EU)-U.K. Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) governing post-Brexit trade relations between the U.K. and the EU includes provisions regulating EU/U.K. antitrust enforcement and cooperation effective January 1, 2021 : Anticompetitive practices and mergers. The TCA provides (...)
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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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The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published “Guidance on the Functions of the CMA Under the Withdrawal Agreement” (Guidance), which sets out the regulator’s approach to merger and competition cases during the Brexit transition period that will run until at least through December (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. Introduction Since the last special edition of e-Competitions on restrictions of parallel trade, there have been a number of national competition authority cases (...)
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