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Graeme Young is a partner and Co-head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade 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 agreements and sales practices, competition and regulatory investigations and merger control. He is also well-known for his advice on public procurement and State aid matters.
Graeme is dual-qualified (Scotland and England & Wales) and EU list registered and regulated by the Dutch Brussels Bar. He has an LL.M from the College of Europe, in Bruges, and is a former Chair of the Competition Section of the Law Society of England & Wales and a member of the Steering Committee of the Scottish Competition Forum.
With a reputation for giving practical commercial advice on complex competition and regulatory issues he is "impressively focused on getting the right result for the client" Chambers UK.
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Graeme Young is a partner Co-head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade advising on EU and UK antitrust, competition and trade, public procurement and state aid. This includes advising on cartel and other competition investigations, compliance and dawn raids, supply and distribution agreements, joint ventures and strategic commercial agreements, merger control and private enforcement.
Graeme also advises on public procurement and state aid issues. He is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Public Procurement Law and is an active member of the UK Procurement Lawyers Association. He regularly advises on procurement and state aid aspects of IT and capital infrastructure projects and on procurement challenges.
He has specific expertise in the financial services and the energy and utilities sectors. Graeme worked as in-house counsel at National Grid and Centrica and has advised on a variety of competition and regulatory issues in the energy, water, telecoms and transport sectors, including UK merger control and Competition Act investigations.
