Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Competition/Antitrust

Partner, Brussels & London

Morris is a highly-experienced competition, regulatory and trade lawyer, with a particular focus in relation to EU regulation and behavioural matters, State aid / subsidy control and international trade law.

In the EU regulatory sphere, Morris has significant knowledge across a variety of areas, including in particular, the EU's new suite of tech regulation and the emerging AI regulatory framework as well as consumer goods and energy / environmental regulation, and has represented clients in major litigation before the EU Courts in relation to regulatory instruments and decisions in recent years.

In the competition law area, Morris focuses on behavioural issues and State aid / subsidy control and has represented clients in the European Commission's investigations in relation to tax practices and in the first-ever English court proceedings under the UK's post-Brexit subsidy control framework.  He has also been spearheading the firm's cross-office work in relation to the EU's new foreign subsidies regulation, a major new EU fair-competition initiative.

Finally, in the international trade law field, Morris has extensive experience advising across the full range of international trade matters, including international sanctions law, trade-defence investigations, customs and in State-to-State dispute settlement before the WTO and under bilateral free trade agreements.

Morris is recognised as a 'Rising Star' for 'Trade, WTO, Anti-dumping and Customs' by Legal 500 UK 2024 and by Legal 500 EMEA 2024– Belgium, as well as for 'International Trade' by IFLR 2022.