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At Addleshaw Goddard LLP, ‘brilliant competition lawyer’ and ‘sound adviser’ Phil McDonnell is ‘a very personable character and can communicate across all levels’, and regularly handles high-profile merger filings. Jonathan Davey is also recommended, in particular for procurement matters.

Eversheds LLP’s four-partner team has the strength and depth to provide advice across the gamut of issues from merger control to state aid matters. The ‘very knowledgeable’ Adam Collinson is ‘very skilled in his dealings with the OFT’, and recently achieved a favourable outcome for the Reckitt Benckiser Group in an abuse of a dominant position investigation. Clients include Dairy Crest, Specsavers, Securitas and PPG.

Bolstered internationally by the firm’s recent US merger, Squire Sanders Hammonds provides ‘expert advice’ across a range of matters including merger control and cartel enforcement. Splitting his time between Manchester and London, Diarmuid Ryan provides ‘sound and informed advice on complex matters’. He recently assisted BSS Group on the UK merger control aspects of its acquisition by Travis Perkins.

Cobbetts LLP provides ‘direct, factual advice’ across a raft of issues to both public and private sector clients. In keeping with the firm’s strong public sector client base, the team’s ‘knowledge of state aid and procurement is very good’. The ‘customer-focused, polite and friendly’ Jonathan Branton heads the team, and receives able support from associate Jay Mehta, who is noted for her expertise in state aid, and from lawyers in the firm’s Brussels office.

At DWF LLP, Liverpool-based partner Laurence Pritchard heads the team and has vast experience handling OFT investigations and Competition Commission inquiries. Clients include JD Sports Fashion, Britpave and Vix Technology.

At Gateley, Jonathan Moakes advises on the competition aspects of commercial and IP agreements and corporate transactions.

Pannone LLP’s Amanda Howlett handles the full spectrum of EU and competition issues including M&A-related work and price-fixing and cartels. Clients include the Luxfer Group and Kellogg’s.

At Weightmans LLP, Martin Vincent provides EU procurement advice to a host of education institutions such as Bangor University and Royal Holloway, University of London.

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