A&O Shearman
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A&O Shearman regularly handles complex contentious and non-contentious competition matters, assists clients across the telecoms, financial services, automotive and energy sectors. The team has experience handling complex antitrust litigation, including cartel cases, and is particularly skilled at handling multi-jurisdictional merger control matters. The practice is headed by Dirk Arts, who possesses a wealth of experience in high-profile merger control proceedings and cartel investigations. Eliana Paredis offers expertise on competition law matters within the energy, industrial, and TMT sectors. Further key contacts include merger control specialist Sylvain Petit and Nele De Backer, who brings investigations experience.
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Testimonials
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- ‘The A&O Shearman team is unique in the sense that they are able to work on any matter at the same level of quality. No matter if it is merger, or antitrust, or state aid, they are specialists in all kind of competition law matters.’
- ‘I work with Sylvain Petit. He is very smart, passionate, always available, and he has the quality of always brainstorming with the client so that together, we achieve great things. I am happy to have the chance to work with him, I know I can trust him.’
Key clients
- Mediahuis
- Verdane
Work highlights
Advising Mediahuis on various competition law related matters.


