Colin Raftery is Director of Mergers at the Competition and Markets Authority, where he leads the CMA’s team on a variety of merger cases and policy initiatives. Prior to joining the CMA, Colin advised on all aspects of EU and UK competition law at law firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels and Washington DC. Colin holds an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Edinburgh and postgraduate degrees in law from the College of Europe, Bruges, and the University of Chicago.