Rikki’s practice covers all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including merger control and foreign investment reviews, antitrust investigations and market inquiries.
As a member of the firm's global tech practice, Rikki has significant experience advising a broad range of tech and digital platform businesses, including on issues with significant implications for their strategic objectives and commercial strategies. He also has a keen focus on the telecoms, financial services, retail and consumer products sectors.
Rikki helps clients to devise and execute successful cross-border commercial strategies across different regulatory environments, including on the intersection of competition, data privacy and consumer protection law. He regularly provides strategic advice to corporate clients and financial investors on high-profile and complex transactions.
His extensive experience before the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and European Commission, including his time on secondment in the CMA’s mergers unit, enables him to formulate arguments that play well with decision makers and to approach cases with practical insights.
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- BT Group/Openreach on its rollout of full fibre broadband in the UK, and the share acquisitions by Altice.
- Boparan Private Office on successfully obtaining an unconditional Phase 1 approval from the CMA in relation to its acquisition of Bernard Matthews.
- Cazoo on a string of commercial projects and transactions around Europe.
- CVC on the merger control and competition aspects of its strategic investments in the Premiership Rugby and PRO14 rugby competitions.
- Hellman & Friedman Advisors LLC on its $6bn acquisition of payments platform Concardis.
- HSBC on various market studies and investigations, including the CMA’s Phase 2 market investigation into retail banking.
- MásMóvil on its €18.6bn joint venture with Orange to combine their telecommunications operations in Spain.
- Meta on its defence against the European Commission’s and CMA’s parallel antitrust investigations into Facebook Marketplace, and on its defence and coordination of other antitrust proceedings around the world.
- Meta on its response to the CMA’s market study into online platforms and digital advertising.
- Meta on its landmark challenge against the European Commission before the EU General Court, with Meta having obtained rarely granted interim relief from the EU General Court.
- Tesco on successfully obtaining an unconditional Phase 2 approval from the CMA in relation to its acquisition of Booker, and on its strategic alliance with Carrefour.
- Verizon on the global antitrust and foreign investment aspects of the $5bn sale of Verizon Media to funds managed by Apollo Global Management, Inc.
- Zoopla and RVU on their growth strategy and various acquisitions in relation to their property and digital comparison businesses, including Confused.com and Tempcover.
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Education
Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, UK (Law)
Professional qualifications
BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course (with distinction)
Solicitor, England and Wales
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