Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Antitrust & Competition

Philipp Girardet, Chair of the European Competition Practice Group, advises on a broad range of EU and UK competition law issues, including complex merger and cartel matters. Philipp also has an active EU and UK competition compliance and competition litigation practice across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, including industrials, consumer goods, digital platforms / e-commerce, financial services, telecoms, media, music, pharma and transport. He also advises on UK criminal cartel offence matters. He was the Deputy Director of the Cartel Investigations division at the UK Competition Authority (then the Office of Fair Trading) and the Co-Chair of the Leniency Working Group of the European Competition Network (ECN) from 2005 to 2007.