Antitrust & Competition in Europe

Debevoise lawyers in the firm’s UK and European offices work with clients to secure regulatory clearances for complex international mergers and acquisitions before the European Commission and national competition authorities.

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Timothy McIver

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Recognition

Ranked as a leading firm in the UK for Competition/Antitrust.

“Strong professional team.”

—Benchmark Litigation Europe, 2018-2020

Ranked as a leading UK firm for EU and Competition work.

“Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s ‘proactive, flexible’ team is commended for its ‘breadth of experience’ and its strength in multi-jurisdictional merger filings.”

“‘Pragmatic, strategic and highly responsive’ practice head Timothy McIver has ‘a very good grasp of the competition landscape of specialty chemicals’”

—The Legal 500 UK, 2016-2020

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Lawyer Publications

Timothy McIver, International Counsel resident in our London office whose practice focuses on EU and UK competition law, has authored two in depth chapters for the Practical Law Multijurisdictional guides, published by Thomson Reuters. The chapters provide a detailed, practical guide to the current regulatory environment for merger control in the UK, and for restraints of trade and dominance in the UK.

Merger Control in the UK (England and Wales)

Restraints of Trade and Dominance in the UK (England and Wales): Overview

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Announcement

Debevoise Names Seven New Partners

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Accolade

International counsel Anna V. Maximenko (Moscow) and Timothy McIver (London) are both listed in the latest edition of Who’s Who Legal: Competition. The listings are based on the number and strength of recommendations Who’s Who Legal received from clients and private practitioners around the competition market.

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The European team specializes in securing regulatory clearances for complex international mergers and acquisitions before the European Commission and national competition authorities, both across Europe and worldwide.On the contentious side, our team has broad experience advising on behavioural matters including EU and national investigations of alleged abuses of dominance, as well as cartel and other antitrust investigations (e.g. sectoral inquiries/market investigations).We have strong relationships with the European Commission and maintain an exceptional network of contacts within the competition authorities of the EU Member States and other national regulators globally.The firm’s antitrust work has involved a wide variety of industries, including financial services, technology, media, communications, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, aviation, energy, natural resources and manufacturing.One of our distinctive features is that we operate as one integrated team across offices, which, combined with close working relationships with local firms in all other major jurisdictions, enables us to provide our clients with joined-up globally strategic advice on complex multi-jurisdictional matters.