Our truly integrated global antitrust and foreign investment group provides market-leading legal expertise across the spectrum of antitrust and foreign investment matters, wherever our clients do business
Antitrust & Foreign Investment
Linklaters’ antitrust & foreign investment team is one of the world’s leading antitrust law practices.
Our international team help clients successfully navigate fast-evolving competition and foreign investment laws across the globe. Regulators’ and enforcement agencies’ investigations often cross borders and practice areas. So do we.
Our multi-disciplinary team of over 250 lawyers across the major global antitrust centres of the EU, UK, US and China bring together a mix of technical expertise and practical experience of dealing with the most high-profile and sensitive antitrust investigations around the world.
Our approach is to combine a deep understanding of clients’ businesses and strategies with our insights at the cutting edge of the regulatory landscape – and to rely on our credibility with agency decision-makers. The result is a clear track record of successful outcomes in complex global, EU and domestic transactional and behavioural matters.
Linklaters has extensive experience assisting clients with complex dominance related issues and takes an active role in the policy debate through our work for clients and in our other professional activities.
With our global footprint and on-the-ground experience in multiple jurisdictions our Antitrust & Foreign Investment team support clients through the broad spectrum of challenges that arise before, during and after an investigation into behavioural conduct issues.
As a leading global cartel practice, Linklaters' team works with clients to defend their interests in response to an investigation by minimising both the financial risk and potential damage to the clients’ reputation.
Linklaters has extensive experience of assisting clients with dawn raids, ensuring a unified and efficient response to regulators across multiple jurisdictions and protecting our clients’ rights in any subsequent cartel or other antitrust investigation.
The team has advised on price controls, market access and liberalisation for utilities companies, as well as on the regulatory issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions and financing/restructuring transactions.
At Linklaters, we have world-leading experience thanks to our dedicated and truly integrated global network. We are continually monitoring developments in this rapidly evolving area in order to remain ahead of the curve. We offer clients a one stop shop for handling merger control and foreign investment review filings: a single, central point of contact, as well as a consistently high level of quality.
Merger control is critical to the success of any M&A transaction. Linklaters’ truly global team works with clients to devise their global merger control strategy. We combine commercial, legal, economic and often political considerations to maximise the chance of a successful outcome. We offer clients a one stop shop for handling merger control and foreign investment review filings: a single, central point of contact, as well as a consistently high level of quality.
Linklaters has extensive experience of advising on the application of the EU procurement Directives and the implementing regulations adopted in various Member States. We have been involved in many important projects for both private and public sector clients (including national governments), which have required a combination of detailed technical legal expertise, innovative thinking and commercial focus.
In this evolving legal environment, companies with no previous (and often no foreseen) exposure to State aid issues are increasingly affected by the rules. Companies increasingly view State aid law as a powerful tool to challenge the legality of fiscal regimes and other State measures which favour their competitors. Our clients gain a competitive advantage from our wealth of experience in handling complex State aid cases.
We help our clients to navigate this constantly-evolving landscape, and are currently directly engaged with some of the most significant enforcement in this area, working closely with clients and regulators to tackle the complex problems posed by this fast-paced, data-driven industry.