Antitrust and Competition
The centre of gravity in antitrust law has shifted with the globalisation of regulation and enforcement.
In this environment, many of the world's leading companies are turning to Allen & Overy as their preferred competition counsel on their global antitrust policies, litigation and regulatory strategies. Our clients include many of the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions.
We have over 100 specialists working collaboratively across four global regions – Asia, Australia, Europe and North America – one of the largest Competition teams among the major international law firms. As such we combine the efficiency of a global footprint with local depth of expertise.
A single team with an international focus and creative thinking, we provide an expansive range of services and regularly represent our clients on merger control, cartel and abuse of dominance/monopolisation, antitrust disputes including judicial review and private damages, compliance and counselling, sector regulation and market investigations, public procurement and competitive tendering, and state aid.
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Publications: 03 April 2023
Global trends in government scrutiny of semiconductor transactions: an overview of recent cases
The semiconductor industry is based on a highly specialized supply chain where no one country or region dominates both design and manufacturing. This has created an industry where collaboration is…
Publications: 20 March 2023
Regional snapshots for antitrust enforcement in 2022
We have collected data on antitrust fine totals, and on fines and cases by conduct type for Europe, APAC and the Americas to give a snapshot of antitrust enforcement in each region. The Americas was…
Publications: 20 March 2023
A mixed picture for antitrust enforcement
2022 saw a mixed picture in terms of antitrust enforcement across the globe. For the jurisdictions surveyed in our report, global fine totals were down significantly from 2021 (USD3.5billion, compared…
Publications: 07 March 2023
Antitrust in focus - February 2023
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Vivian Cao, partner at Allen & Overy Lang Yue, is our editor this month (learn more about…
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Recognition
the competition law team at Allen & Overy is excellent. We view it as being a top-tier competition practice across Europe and in the US.
Chambers Global 2021 (Competition/Antitrust)
Allen & Overy have excellent people, are innovative and client-friendly, and have very good international coverage.
Chambers Global 2021 (Competition/Antitrust)
..top-10-level work in mergers, cartels and litigation, as well as some of the best showings in non-cartel conduct matters and other competition work
Global Competition Review 2019
Depth of expertise and skill, particularly for international companies operating in multiple jurisdictions.
Chambers Global 2018 (Competition/Antitrust)
Allen & Overy pound-for-pound has one of the most highly acclaimed competition practices in the world.
Global Competition Review 2016
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