Competition and EU law

Ashurst is recognised as having one of the leading competition practices in Europe, with top-ranked advisers throughout our teams in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm and Paris.

Our multilingual network has a strong track record of providing high quality advice and achieving successful outcomes for clients engaged in a full range of matters, including mergers and anti-trust investigations.

We have extensive experience in complex EC merger work, including second stage investigations by the Commission and appeals before the European Courts.

Since EC competition law was modernised and decentralised in 2004, close relationships with competition authorities at the national level have become ever more important.  Ashurst has notable breadth and depth of experience in working with the various national competition authorities in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK, as well as representing clients before the courts in those countries.  Our experience extends beyond the countries where Ashurst is physically present, with lawyers also regularly working closely with the competition authorities in various  other countries. 

Competition and EU law experience