About
Rory is a Senior Associate in our Antitrust, Competition and Trade group.
He advises clients on all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including merger control and foreign investment, restrictive agreements, abuse of dominance, and market investigations.
He has experience advising clients across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on the tech, energy and industrials sectors.
Rory has spent time on secondment as competition counsel at bp. He speaks English and Spanish.
Additional Information
- A global technology company on the CMA's cloud infrastructure market investigation, and various global antitrust, merger control and regulatory matters.
- Universal Music Group on the merger control aspects of its acquisition of Downtown Music, approved by the European Commission following a Phase II investigation.
- UBS on the global merger control and foreign investment aspects of its $3.32bn acquisition of Credit Suisse in the largest banking deal since the 2008 global financial crisis.
- bp on the merger control and foreign investment aspects of its sale of a 65% stake in Castrol to Stonepeak at an enterprise value of US$10bn, and its sale of a non-controlling stake in bp Pipelines TAP to funds managed by Apollo.
- SSE plc on the divestment of a 25% stake in its electricity transmission network business to OTPP, and the sale of its domestic retail energy business to OVO Energy.
- Cargotec on its proposed merger with Konecranes in the cargo handling industry to create a combined group with sales of €7bn, involving the first parallel Phase II review of a transaction by the CMA and the European Commission.
- Rentokil on its acquisition of Cannon Hygiene, which secured CMA clearance following a Phase II review.
- Nets A/S on the European Commission’s conditional clearance of Mastercard’s acquisition of Nets’ account-to-account payment business.
- Cinven on its acquisition of MBCC’s Admixtures business from Sika AG, as part of a CMA remedies process.
- CVC Capital Partners on its strategic investment in Six Nations Rugby, which received CMA clearance at Phase I.
Rory Jones
Senior Associate
London Office
100 Bishopsgate
London EC2P 2SR