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With more than 25 years of experience as a private practitioner and regulator across three continents, Alastair helps clients navigate complex regulatory regimes and achieve successful outcomes in both transactional and investigatory matters.
Alastair assists clients before UK, EU and Asian regulators across the full range of competition-related work, including merger control and foreign investment, cartels and abuses of dominance. Alastair co-heads the firm’s foreign investment skills group, whose integrated global approach is regularly called upon by clients to solve their most complex investment regulatory consents across jurisdictions.
Drawing on four years as a senior official at the UK’s competition authority, the Office of Fair Trading, and his roles as non-governmental adviser to both the Hong Kong and UK competition authorities, Alastair consistently helps clients develop effective regulatory strategies.
Alastair is a recognised thought leader and frequent speaker at international conferences on competition and foreign investment law. He has also authored and edited numerous publications on these issues. Alastair is an Officer of the International Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, and a past co-chair of its Mergers Working Group.
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- Axel Springer on its proposed £575m acquisition of the Telegraph Media Group.
- China Mobile Hong Kong on the antitrust aspects of its proposed pre-conditional voluntary general offer to acquire all of the issued shares in HKBN. This transaction was shortlisted as “Merger Control Matter of the Year (Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa)” at the GCR Awards 2026.
- CVC Capital Partners on its (proposed) acquisitions of infrastructure manager, DIF Capital Partners and credit manager, Marathon Asset Management; its IPO on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange; and a number of fund acquisitions.
- DFS on the sale of its Okinawa travel retail business to Avolta AG.
- ESR Group Limited on the $5.2bn acquisition of ARA Asset Management.
- GIC on its ongoing investment in Yorkshire Water and its proposed acquisition of a minority shareholding in Envu from Cinven.
- GXO Logistics on its £727m acquisition of Wincanton plc before the CMA, which was cleared at Phase 2 with conditions. This transaction was shortlisted as “Merger Control Matter of the Year (Europe)” at the GCR Awards 2026.
- Keppel Capital on the regulatory aspects of its acquisition of Aermont Capital Partners.
- Korean Air on the 1.8tn won (approximately $1.51bn) acquisition of Asiana, merging the two largest airlines in Korea. This transaction won the “Merger control matter of the year - Asia” at the GCR 2025 Awards.
- Leonardo on its proposed joint venture with Thales and Airbus to create a European leader in the space sector.
- Medivet on the CMA’s investigation into 17 completed vet clinic acquisitions by Medivet and the CMA’s market investigation into the provision of veterinary services for household pets in the UK.
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board on the sale of its stakes in various UK and EU airports.
- RELX on various acquisitions by its LexisNexis Risk Solutions, LexisNexis Legal & Professional and Exhibitions divisions.
- Strava on its acquisition of Runna.
- TotalEnergies on its acquisition of 50% of the power generation platform of Energetický a průmyslový holding, in Western Europe.
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