Competition / Antitrust | Client Services

Competition

Linklaters’ competition team is one of the world’s leading antitrust law practices.

With 27 partners and over 120 dedicated lawyers, we help clients successfully navigate fast-evolving competition and foreign investment laws across the globe. Our approach is to combine a deep understanding of clients’ businesses and strategies with our know-how of the regulatory landscape – and to rely on our credibility with public sector decision-makers. The result is a clear track record of innovation in dealing effectively with complex global, EU and domestic transactional and behavioural matters.

Our seamlessly integrated global team is strengthened by strategic alliances with top-tier law firms in Australia, Africa, India and South-East Asia.

Merger Control

Merger control is critical to the success of any M&A transaction. Linklaters’ truly global competition team works with clients to devise their global merger control strategy. We combine commercial, legal, economic and often political considerations to maximise the chance of a successful outcome. We offer clients a one stop shop for handling merger control and foreign investment review filings: a single, central point of contact, as well as a consistently high level of quality.

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Foreign Investment Control

At Linklaters, we have world-leading experience thanks to our dedicated and truly integrated global network. We are continually monitoring developments in this rapidly evolving area in order to remain ahead of the curve. We offer clients a one stop shop for handling merger control and foreign investment review filings: a single, central point of contact, as well as a consistently high level of quality.

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Cartels

The need to manage and control the risk of cartel exposure at a global level has become a corporate imperative. Linklaters’ competition team is one of the world’s leading global practices, with extensive experience advising those with “most to lose” on all of the major global cartel investigations.

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Dawn Raids

In the event of a dawn raid, companies need immediate legal assistance. Linklaters has extensive experience of assisting clients with dawn raids, ensuring a unified and efficient response to authorities across multiple jurisdictions and protecting our clients’ rights in any subsequent cartel or other antitrust investigation.

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Competition and Antitrust Litigation

Linklaters’ specialist competition litigators combine technical expertise with strategic advice to pursue or defend claims on behalf of our clients before national courts across Europe, before the EU courts, the US courts and elsewhere across the globe. The leading cartel litigation and white-collar crime practice successfully conducts and coordinates multi-jurisdictional litigation for clients to ensure the best possible outcome.

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Market and Sector Investigations

Linklaters’ competition team is at the forefront of advising clients on how to deal effectively with market and sector investigations. We get to grips quickly with the market dynamics at the heart of the investigation and the economics of your business, providing strategic advice and creative thinking throughout the process to ensure the best possible outcome.

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Abuse of Dominance

Our team has extensive experience assisting clients with complex dominance related issues. We take an active role in the policy debate through our work for clients and in our other professional activities.

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State Aid

In this evolving legal environment, companies with no previous (and often no foreseen) exposure to State aid issues are increasingly affected by the rules. Companies increasingly view State aid law as a powerful tool to challenge the legality of fiscal regimes and other State measures which favour their competitors. Our clients gain a competitive advantage from our wealth of experience in handling complex State aid cases.

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Public procurement

Linklaters has extensive experience of advising on the application of the EU procurement Directives and the implementing regulations adopted in various Member States. We have been involved in many important projects for both private and public sector clients (including national governments), which have required a combination of detailed technical legal expertise, innovative thinking and commercial focus.

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Economic & Utility Regulation

The team has advised on price controls, market access and liberalisation for utilities companies, as well as on the regulatory issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions and financing/restructuring transactions.

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AdTech

We help our clients to navigate this constantly-evolving landscape, and are currently directly engaged with some of the most significant enforcement in this area, working closely with clients and regulators to tackle the complex problems posed by this fast-paced, data-driven industry.

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