Region: England

Cozen O’Connor has hired a Cassels Brock & Blackwell partner to launch its new antitrust practice in Canada, while Paul Hastings has poached a lawyer from Proskauer Rose to lead its London antitrust team and Clifford Chance has made a counsel promotion.

19 October 2022

Linklaters has promoted two competition lawyers and one antitrust litigator to the partnership in Brussels and London, effective 1 May.

06 April 2022

Annie Herdman has left Kirkland & Ellis after nearly eight years to join Ropes & Gray as an antitrust partner in London.

24 February 2022

Facebook’s parent company Meta is facing a landmark £2.3 billion opt-out antitrust class action claim on behalf of an estimated 44 million UK consumers for allegedly abusing its dominance by illegally exploiting the personal data of its users.

14 January 2022

An alliance of technology and publishing companies has once again called on the UK’s competition authority to impose an interim injunction on Google to stop the company rolling out privacy changes to its Chrome browser.

21 December 2021

Miguel Vaz has joined Fieldfisher as a partner in London from Bank of New York Mellon.

17 August 2021

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has notched up another successful merger challenge after accepting Ardonagh’s offer to unwind its £26 million purchase of rival motorcycle insurer Bennetts Motorcycle Services.

20 November 2020

The UK’s antitrust authority has launched an abuse of dominance investigation into Essential Pharma after the drugmaker threatened to withdraw a lithium-based bipolar disorder medication from the market.

06 October 2020

The UK’s highest court has confirmed that Unwired Planet did not abuse its dominance when it sought an injunction against Huawei’s use of its standard-essential patents.

26 August 2020

A wildlife park has asked the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to impose an injunction on its landlord, accusing the latter of unlawfully restricting its ability to sell food and merchandise.

20 February 2019