Offices: London, United Kingdom

EU & UK Competition Law

McGuireWoods’ Brussels and London offices provide advice on all aspects of EU competition law. In addition, full coverage of UK and other EU national competition laws is provided directly by these offices or through a network of strong relationships with correspondent law firms developed over many years.

The competition law team is a multilingual cross-departmental practice group drawn from the offices’ corporate and litigation departments. The lawyers have extensive experience of merger control, cartels, trading agreements and practices, including abuse of dominance and distribution, and State aid. Economic principles underpin competition law in the EU and we are well-versed in the practical application of these principles to competition law matters.

Our lawyers appear before the European Commission in Brussels and the various national competition and utility regulators across the EU, as well as the EU courts in Luxembourg and national courts.

Representative services at EU and national level

• Merger control (mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other alliances), including phase two investigations requiring remedies, multi-jurisdictional transactions and complaints by third parties
• Commercial agreements including franchising, selective and exclusive distribution and supply agreements and related issues, including parallel imports
• The interface between intellectual property and competition law, including in relation to licensing issues
• Abuse of dominance, including acting for complainants
• Handling of cartel investigations
• State aid, including acting for complainants, providers and potential recipients
• Compliance programmes, including undertaking audits and compliance training
• Private enforcement of competition law, including in relation to damages actions in the national courts for claimants and defendants
• Utilities regulation
• Advice on lobbying strategies before the EU institutions
• Client training

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