Freeths LLP

Competition, Corporate Defence and Regulatory

Partner and Head of Competition 

Andrew leads the Competition team at Freeths LLP.  He has extensive expertise on EU and UK competition/antitrust law and all related practice areas.  Andrew represents both private and public sector clients in antitrust proceedings before the European Commission, the UK competition regulators and the courts.  He advises on all aspects of worldwide merger control, EU/UK merger investigations, merger arbitrage, EU/UK competition law and litigation, antitrust and market investigations, competition compliance, dawn raids and leniency applications, state aid, procurement and litigation, regulatory, trade and EU law.

Deringer, Brussels (now Freshfields); Allens, Sydney (now Linklaters); SJ Berwin;

Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham (now Gowling WLG), 2004-2011;

RPC, 2011-2016;

Competition and Markets Authority, Legal Director (seconded from RPC), 2015;

Partner at Freeths LLP, 2016

Spanish, German, French, Italian, Hungarian

Law Society Competition Section

Competition Law Association

Procurement Lawyers’ Association

UK State Aid Law Association

University of Glasgow - LL.B (Hons) (First; Law prize)

European University Institute, Florence, Italy - LL.M (Distinction)

College of Law, London – LPC (Distinction)

Football, skiing, tennis and squash