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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is highly regarded for handling the competition aspects of complex and high-stakes M&A, regularly advising on Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews before both UK and EU authorities. Splitting his time between London and Brussels, Bill Batchelor is a leading figure in conduct investigations and merger control. Aurora Luoma adds strength with her broad expertise spanning merger control, antitrust investigations, state aid, and sectoral regulation.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Skadden has a very deep bench for large M&A, with experts across the range of disciplines and strengths across all major global jurisdictions needed to execute a deal. We would describe them as high expertise and low fuss, which is a very nice combination for high stress situations like large M&A.’

  • ‘The individuals we worked with learned our business and technologies deeply, sometimes exceeding our in-house people in their knowledge. Particularly in the antitrust area, the lawyers were very good in US, Europe, U,K and Asia.' 

  • ‘Giorgio Motta and Aurora Luoma are highly experienced practitioners across EU antitrust. They are solutions-oriented and highly diligent - a valuable partner for any client. ’

  • ‘Skadden's antitrust group provides full-service global competition support, with a particular strength in multi-jurisdictional M&A, but also conduct and DMA advice.' 

  • ‘Responsive, resourceful, and a global perspective.’

  • ‘Very strong team, well integrated with their US colleagues, particularly well suited for multi-J mergers. A lot of very experienced partners and a lot of up-and-comers.'

  • ‘Ingrid is exceptional, incredibly experienced, and shows great judgment for what arguments will work with agencies. Bill Batchelor is also very effective and gets stuck into drafting submissions.' 

  • ‘Aurora Luoma is probably the most thoughtful and at the same time most impactful competition lawyer I have worked with in the UK. I have been really impressed.’

Key clients

  • Altice International S.à r.l.
  • American Express Global Business Travel
  • Ansys, Inc.
  • ByteDance Ltd.
  • Catalent, Inc.
  • Corebridge Financial Inc.
  • Downtown Music Holdings LLC
  • Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
  • Hg Capital
  • Intelsat S.A.
  • International Paper
  • Juniper Networks, Inc.
  • Mars, Incorporated
  • Mowi ASA
  • Nokia Corporation
  • Silver Point Capital, L.P.
  • Splunk Inc.
  • Viatris Inc.
  • V Sports S.C.S.

Work highlights

Advising Ansys, Inc., a U.S. engineering simulation software company, on the global antitrust aspects of its $35 billion acquisition by Synopsys, Inc.
Advised Catalent on the global antitrust aspects of its $16.5 billion acquisition by Novo Holdings, and the subsequent sale of three of Catalent’s sites to Novo Nordisk.
Advising Mars on the global antitrust aspects of its $35.9 billion acquisition of Kellanova.

Practice head

Frederic Depoortere; Ingrid Vandenborre

Other key lawyers

Bill Batchelor; Aurora Luoma; Iacovos Antoniou