With more than 20 years’ experience of enforcement agencies, regulatory authorities and courts in the UK and at EU level, Rod draws on industry knowledge, evidential rigour and a keen strategic awareness to help clients develop arguments that play well with the decision makers.
He places great emphasis on effective co-working with client teams and other professional advisors. As many of the projects he works on are multi-jurisdictional, Rod helps his clients meet the challenge of achieving optimal outcomes across different regulatory environments.
Rod’s private sector clients span the financial services, pharma, telecoms, media, technology, transport and retail sectors. He also acts for UK government departments and other public sector bodies.
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- Helping BT achieve unconditional competition clearance for its acquisition of EE, a merger that brought together the UK’s largest fixed and mobile telecoms operators. Read more about the deal in our case study.
- Assisting the global pharmaceuticals companies Novartis and Boehringer-Ingelheim in securing EU clearance for their complex asset swap deals with, respectively, GSK and Sanofi.
- Advising the UK Government on: winning EU merger approval for the sale of its stake in Eurostar; and securing EU state aid clearance for the restructuring of Royal Mail.
- Representing the global bank HSBC on the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s industry-wide investigation into the state of competition in personal and SME banking.
- Advising CVC Capital Partners on winning all the necessary merger clearances for its sale of Formula 1 to Liberty Media.
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