EU and competition in Scotland

‘A highly skilled, professional and diverse team who are responsive and diligent on all matters. The wide range of expertise – and access to experts on wider areas of law – gives clients confidence that the team can collaborate to deliver projects of any scale, and that they can meet ambitious deadlines on complex problems. The stand-out feature of the team is their ability to understand the client, their operating environment, and risk appetite’.

‘The team really understand our business and their advice is always on point. They do not get bogged down in the detail but cut through it to give the advice we need. They are flexible and able to discuss concepts at a range of levels’.

‘Michael Dean and David McGowan always give great and easily digestible advice.’

‘Melanie Martin is bright and very easy to deal with.’

‘Catriona Munro gives flexible and helpful strategic guidance in disputes contexts.’

‘Approachable individuals who have good awareness of wider commercial considerations beyond just legal points. Each is an expert in their field, and give confidence that they are applying the most up-to-date thinking to matters.’

‘David McGowan is a notable expert who gives complete confidence in the breadth and thoroughness of his advice.’

‘This is a fast reacting and knowledgeable team who can convey this complex area of law in a way which resonates with the business we operate in.’

‘Gordon Downie leads from the front and has huge experience in competition and regulatory matters, with unparalleled knowledge of the energy markets’.

‘Fiona Parker is second to none on client and case-management, with huge experience in the water sector’.

‘The practice is unique in offering a full service legal firm across the UK, with a unique and unusual position in Scotland and offering services into Northern Ireland, on the utilities sectors’.

‘It has huge experience in EU regulatory issues’.                              

‘John Grady has an encyclopaedic knowledge of utility regulation in the UK, particularly energy’.

‘John Grady is a first-rate lawyer with good judgement and excellent client handling skills’.

‘Gordon Downie is one of the top competition and regulatory lawyers in Scotland; he has a quietly understated manner but is extremely knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with’. 

‘Very knowledgeable about energy regulation issues’.  

‘Graeme Young is very knowledgeable on the more challenging aspects of state aid’.

‘Graeme Young takes a commercial view, which is rare amongst procurement lawyers’.

‘Anderson Strathern are a class act for EU and competition, particularly competition litigation’.

‘Katrina Lumsdaine is a fantastic litigator and has brilliant strategic and tactical instincts’.

‘Katrina Lumsdaine is well able to weave her enormous commercial litigation experience into competition litigation’.

‘Katrina Lumsdaine has a wonderful, deft touch with clients and she will be a major force in years to come in competition litigation in Scotland’.

‘A good, common sense and cost-effective approach’.