Sectoral regulation

Companies in regulated industries are under constant scrutiny over anti-competitive behaviour. With our in-depth sector specific competition law expertise, we help clients check their market conduct and behaviour is fully compliant. We also represent clients in proceedings by sector specific regulators and in judicial and administrative appeals against regulatory decisions.  We have particular expertise advising on regulatory issues in the UK communications and airport sectors, and have also acted on several energy price control appeals before the UK Competition and Markets Authority, together with our Power team (and were Commended in the Lawyer Awards 2022 for our leading role on the most recent of these). Clients come to us for the strength and depth of our industry knowledge and its spread across Europe and beyond. Wherever necessary we combine our competition law expertise with the in-depth market knowledge of our colleagues from the CMS industry focus groups that CMS has created for many industry sectors (TMC, digital, energy etc.).