Alastair is the global head of our antitrust, competition and trade group.
Based in London and Dublin, Alastair also spends time working in Brussels and has previously worked in Washington DC. He has spent over two decades advising on all aspects of EU and UK competition law, and related commercial strategy. He has extensive experience representing clients before the UK’s CMA and the European Commission, and is regularly instructed to lead on complex merger control processes for cross-border M&A transactions and on global cartel and other behavioural antitrust investigations.
Alastair has significant expertise working closely with clients across a broad range of sectors. He is equally at home counselling in-house lawyers and senior executives, and coordinating large multi-national teams, combining commercial, strategic and legal advice to help his clients achieve their objectives.
A frequent speaker at international conferences, Alastair is also co-author of the horizontal arrangements chapter of Bellamy and Child: European Union Law of Competition.
- Advising JD Sports before the EC in relation to its successful acquisition of Courir Group
- Counselling a client in relation to multi-jurisdictional antitrust investigations into the construction chemicals industry
- Achieving the first two comfort letters (for, respectively, Fairtrade and wwf-uk) issued by the CMA under its Green Agreements Guidance
- Advising viagogo on achieving a successful outcome with the CMA in relation to its acquisition of StubHub.
- Representing London Stock Exchange Group on its successful $27bn acquisition of Refinitiv.
- Advising Rentokil on its successful acquisitions of Terminix, Cannon Hygiene and Mitie Pest Control.
- Representing Tesco on the successful $10bn disposal of its Thai and Malaysian businesses; the unconditional clearance of its proposed merger with Booker; and the blocked merger of Sainsbury and Asda.
- Advising HSBC on a number of UK Financial Conduct Authority and Competition and Markets Authority investigations and studies.
- Representing a major financial institution on the global investigations into alleged forex manipulation.
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