Rikki Haria is a partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and is based in their London offices. Rikki’s practice covers all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including merger control and foreign investment, cartels, abuse of dominance, market investigations and compliance strategies. Working with clients across a broad range of sectors and industries, he has a strong focus on the technology, media, financial services, consumer goods, retail and private equity sectors. Rikki has acted before the UK Competition and Markets Authority, the European Commission and other competition regulators. Rikki has significant experience providing strategic advice to corporate clients and financial investors on high-profile and complex transactions. He also has experience formulating innovative legal solutions and risk management strategies that enable businesses to execute their business strategies in digital markets. As much of his work is multi-jurisdictional, Rikki helps clients to devise successful cross-border commercial strategies across different regulatory environments. Rikki draws on his commercial approach and industry knowledge to provide clear and pragmatic advice to clients and to help them work with regulators effectively. He has spent time on secondment at the UK Competition and Markets Authority in its mergers unit.
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After months of waiting, the UK government has now introduced into Parliament the text of the hotly anticipated Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill). Sarah Cardell, CEO of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has described this as a “flagship bill” which has the (...)
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Digital markets and Sustainability are key focus areas of the CMA’s 2022-2023 Annual Plan* On 24 March 2022, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its 2022-2023 Annual Plan, setting out the focus areas for the UK’s principal competition and consumer protection regulator. In (...)
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The European Commission (EC) has published guidance on its new policy to encourage and accept referral requests from Member States under Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR) even where transactions do not meet the national merger control thresholds of the referring Member States (see (...)
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The European Commission (EC) has recently announced a change in policy to its referral system to bolster the circumstances in which it will accept referral requests from Member States under Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR). In particular, the EC is encouraging national competition (...)
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