Competition and Monitoring Trustee Services
We combine traditional economics with M&A advisory and
investigative skills, forensic IT capability and deep industry
knowledge to provide robust, commercial and practical advice on a
wide range of competition issues.
Our experience includes assignments involving Anti-Trust and
Market Abuse investigations as well as Monitoring Trustee and
Divestiture Trustee appointments.
Our dedicated team of competition professionals bring experience
of assignments reporting to the:
- European Commission Directorate-General Competition (EC)
- UK Competition Commission (UK-CC)
- UK Office of Fair Trading (UK-OFT)
- US Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- US Department of Justice (DoJ)
- Canadian Competition Bureau (CCB)
- United States District Court for the District of Colombia (USDC
for DC)
- Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
(MOFOCM)
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
We also have considerable experience in undertaking market
reviews and studies across a range of industries and in the
application of strategy and economics to issues facing the private
sector. Our experience in competition and regulatory support means
we can prepare submissions to regulatory authorities around market
power, market definitions, industry structure, cost of capital,
barriers to entry/exit and pricing policies. We also help clients
with the financial aspects of competition investigations, dawn
raids and assistance with claims for damages as a result of
infringements of competition law.
Our current and historic appointments include:
Monitoring Trustee
Anti-Trust
- Project Slate (Financial Services) (EC)
- ALROSA/De Beers (COMP/38.381) (EC)
Market Inquiry
Merger Control
- ABF / GBI Business (M.4980) (EC)
- Amcor/Alcan (M.5599) (EC)
- APW/APSA/Nordic Capital/Capio (M.4367) (EC)
- Bucher Industries/Johnston Sweepers (UK-CC)
- Drager Medical AG & Co KgaA / Air-Shields (UK-CC)
- English Welsh and Scottish Rail / Marcroft (UK-CC)
- Nordic Capital/ConvaTec (M.5190) (EC)
- Nufarm / A H Marks (UK-CC)
- Project Navy (Pharmaceuticals) (EC/CCB/MOFCOM)
- Project Tallow (Transport) (UK-CC)
- Project Violet (Life Sciences) (EC/FTC/ACCC)
- Reuters/Telerate Systems (M.3692) (EC)
- South East & Mid Kent Water (UK-CC)
- Stagecoach Group plc / Eastbourne Buses Limited (UK-CC)
- Stagecoach Group plc / Preston Bus Limited (UK-CC)
- Stericycle International LLC/Sterile Technologies Group Limited
(UK-CC)
- Thomson/Reuters (M.4726) (EC/DoJ/USDC for DC)
- Towers Perrin / Watson Wyatt (M.5597) (EC)
- Vivendi/Canal +/Seagram (M.2050) (EC)
- Zipcar/Streetcar (UK-CC)
State-Aid
- Project Coral (Banking) (EC)
- The Royal Bank of Scotland (N422/2009 & N621/2009)
(EC)
Independent Observer
- Torex / Cerberus (M.4763) (EC)
Divestiture Trustee
- English Welsh and Scottish Rail / Marcroft (UK-CC)
Advisory Services
- Financial analysis to support the Office of Rail Regulation's
s131 referral to the UK-CC of the leasing of rolling stock for
franchised passenger services and the supply of related maintenance
services in Great Britain.
- Acted as Independent Insolvency Practitioner in the inquiry
into the acquisition of GV Instruments by Thermo Electron
Manufacturing Limited (UK-CC)
- Market research to support the inquiry into the acquisition of
ABI Building Data Limited by EMAP PLC (UK-CC)
- Provided Independent Expert Witness work advising around
allegations of restrictive practices in the area of television
rights (UK-OFT)
- Assessing the market impact of the BBC's Online Service using
competition policy techniques
- Macro-level strategic, economic and regulatory input in
response to regulatory attack on a UK telecommunications company by
OFTEL
- Advising on a competition dispute around operation of retail
facilities and associated duty free sales at Eurotunnel passenger
terminals