John Handoll

Senior Adviser, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

John Handoll is a senior adviser in European and competition law, and the national practice head of competition law at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas. He is a specialist competition and regulatory lawyer with extensive experience over more than 40 years and has worked in a number of European jurisdictions – notably, the United Kingdom, Belgium (EU competition law) and Ireland – before coming to India in 2012. Bringing his European and international experience to bear, he has worked with Indian lawyer members of the New Delhi/Mumbai-based competition team on a number of matters before the Competition Commission of India, the Appellate Tribunal and the Indian courts. This has included advising on merger notifications (including multi-jurisdictional filings), antitrust (including cartel investigations and leniency applications) and alleged abuse of dominance. John has also advised a number of Indian and multinational companies on compliance programmes and on preparing for dawn raids. He has also previously acted as non-governmental adviser in the International Competition Network, working in the areas of mergers, cartels and unilateral behaviour. Widely acclaimed as a top practitioner of European and competition law by a number of international media and legal publications, John also lectures and publishes widely.