Nigel Parr
Ashurst (London)
Lawyer (Partner)
Nigel Parr is a partner and head of Ashurst’s global competition and antitrust team. He specialises in all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including mergers, strategic business advice and competition risk management, cartel and abuse of dominance cases, market/sector investigations, appeals and competition litigation. Nigel has long-standing experience of UK and EU cartel and abuse of dominance investigations and appeals to the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, the EU General Court and the European Court of Justice. His experience extends to CMA market investigations, and UK/EU and international merger filings, particularly Phase 2 cases. He is also experienced in judicial review cases before the English Administrative Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal, particularly in relation to procedural failings in competition investigations.
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Auteurs associés
Jean-Paul Tran Thiet
JPTT & Partners (Paris)
Christophe Lemaire
University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Michaël Cousin
Ashurst (Paris)
Pierre-Alain Jeanneney
French State Council (Paris)
Catherine Hammon
Ashurst (London)
Steven Vaz
Ashurst (London)
Alexi Dimitriou
Ashurst (London)
Euan Burrows
Ashurst (London)
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While some businesses may choose to delay transactions in light of Covid-19, many transactions will clearly continue and some of these will need to be completed with some urgency, in particular in cases of financial distress. Merger control regimes are still in operation, although there have been some changes, in particular to encourage parties to delay notifications. This note considers how merger control processes can best be navigated in times of crisis, for example, where the urgent completion of a transaction may be required, or the target is otherwise in significant financial difficulty.
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On 22 April 2020, the European Commission ("Commission") announced plans to adopt an exceptional derogation from the EU competition rules for the milk, flowers and potatoes sectors based on Article 222 of Regulation 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural (...)
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On 8 April 2020, the European Commission ("Commission") published a Temporary Framework Communication ("Communication") to provide antitrust guidance to companies cooperating in response to urgent situations related to the Covid-19 outbreak. The Commission also announced that it issued a (...)
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Whilst Covid-19 is not expected to lead to changes to the core legal and policy principles underpinning merger control regimes around the world, it is worth noting that : merger control regimes are still in operation, albeit filing processes and regulatory reviews may take a bit longer and some (...)
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The Court of Appeal on 5 March 2020 handed down a judgment upholding the ruling of the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT") of July 2019 which found Network Rail had infringed the Chapter I and II prohibitions of the Competition Act 1998 by requiring, in its schemes governing suppliers’ access to (...)
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Are you wondering what competition law in the UK might look like post-Brexit ? The answer differs depending on whether the wording of the draft withdrawal agreement agreed between the UK government and European Commission (’Commission’) on 14 November 2018 (’Withdrawal Agreement’) is ultimately (...)
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Wondering what competition law in the UK might look like in a post-Brexit ’no deal’ scenario ? On 13 September 2018, the UK government tried to shine some light on this area by publishing a technical notice on the provisions for merger control and competition enforcement if there is no Brexit (...)
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This article outlines the key changes made to the UK competition regime following the enactment of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, which provided for the merger of the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission to form the new Competition and Markets Authority. The authors (...)
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Cet article présente les modifications clés apportées au régime de la concurrence du Royaume-Uni, suite à l’adoption de la loi sur l’entreprise et la réforme réglementaire de 2013 ("the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013"), qui prévoit la fusion de l’Office of Fair Trading et de la Competition (...)
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La multiplication des autorités de marché - autorités de concurrence et régulateurs sectoriels - et le développement de leurs modes d’intervention sur le marché conduisent à s’interroger sur la cohérence et la convergence du cadre institutionnel et procédural dans lequel elles s’inscrivent. Après une (...)
