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Antitrust, Competition and Trade lawyers

Antitrust, Competition and Trade law risk is increasingly a board level issue. All businesses need to focus on its impact on their activities.

Mergers require strategic thought up front, as to structuring and substantive competition risk. Pricing and distribution strategies need to be attuned to potential allegations of dominance. Cartel risk needs to be identified and assessed quickly, but accurately. Practical, and sometimes innovative, solutions need to be found in a fast-moving commercial context.

Our team of competition lawyers has extensive experience in helping to navigate these difficult paths so that clients can keep their focus on their business. We have in-depth knowledge of how the competition rules apply in practice across different markets. Our sector focus helps us understand your business environment and get to grips with your issues.

We can help you devise your business strategies to address these challenges and take advantage of the opportunities they offer. We also have hands-on experience of dealing with the competition authorities and courts, and we work with our CMS network of specialist competition lawyers across the EU and beyond. We're experienced in acting on high-profile competition and dawn raid investigations before the UK and EU competition authorities, and we also deal with sector regulators including ORR, Ofgem, and Ofcom. We regularly advise on day-to-day competition issues including commercial agreements and practices, compliance programmes and provide competition law training and audits.

The CMS Antitrust, Competition and Trade Practice Group has more than 150 competition lawyers, making it one of the largest competition teams within Europe. Our experts provide you with tailor-made advice on competition issues at both the European Union (EU) and national levels. The competition lawyers spread across the CMS offices are supported by the CMS EU Law Office in Brussels.

 
Neil Baylis
Neil Baylis
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Neil has over 20 years experience as a competition law partner and also has significant commercial and regulatory expertise.  He sits as a non-executive director on a number of boards.  His clients...
Russell Hoare
Russell Hoare
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Russell has over ten years of experience in advising on merger control, behavioural cases, compliance, market investigations, abuse of dominance, competition law litigation, public procurement, state...
Siobhan Kahmann
Siobhan Kahmann
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Belgium, Brussels
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Siobhan has practised EU and UK competition law for over ten years in Brussels and the UK, in addition to counselling clients on state-aid/subsidy, regulatory - including telco reg, policy and trade...
Jeremy Mash
Jeremy Mash
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Jeremy Mash is a partner in the Commercial Dispute Resolution Team in London. He has over twenty years of experience working on high value disputes, including domestic and cross-border litigation, international...
Wendy Nicolson
Wendy Nicolson
Partner
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Wendy Nicolson is a partner specialising in public procurement and related antitrust, competition and trade issues. Wendy is dual qualified (Scotland and England & Wales) and has extensive experience...
Tim Sales
Tim Sales
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Tim Sales is a disputes partner, assisting businesses to navigate contentious scenarios with other businesses, Governments, regulators and public bodies, through both formal and informal dispute resolution...
Brian Sher
Brian Sher
Partner
Head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade
United Kingdom, London
Brian leads the UK Antitrust, Competition and Trade Team. He is an experienced and trusted competition law adviser, having practised exclusively in the field of EU, UK and international competition law...
Jacqueline Vallat
Jacqueline Vallat
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Jackie Vallat is a partner in the Antitrust, Competition and Trade Team in London.  She advises on a range of antitrust, merger control and foreign control issues, including merger control and foreign...
Graeme Young
Graeme Young
Partner
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Graeme Young is a partner specialising in all aspects of UK and EU antitrust, competition and trade.  He has over 20 years’ experience advising a wide range of clients on competition compliance, commercial...
Judith Aldersey - Williams
Judith Aldersey - Williams
Of Counsel
United Kingdom, Aberdeen
Judith Aldersey-Williams has over 25 years’ experience advising on antitrust, competition and trade, and regulatory matters in the UK and now brings that experience to bear for her clients in the energy...