Lauded for its ‘commercial and technical’ approach, the team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is adept at providing extensive strategic competition advice to its diverse roster of clients. The ’exceptional’ Andrew Hockley – currently based in Sydney – leads the global antitrust practice, and brings vast experience in the regulated utilities and energy sectors. The UK antitrust practice is led by Edward Coulson , who is noted for his focus on competition litigation and class actions.
Testimonials
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'The team is very responsive and pragmatic in their advice.'
‘Andrew Hockley and Paul Culliford are highly responsive and provide clear and helpful advice. They are also great team members.'
‘Outstanding in the field of competition law damages claims. They master the technical and economic detail as well as the big picture. On case strategy, they are excellent. They are dedicated, hardworking and second-to-none in soft skills, client management and exchanging with in-house counsel.’
‘They are conscientious and know the file inside out. They are industrious, proactive and in total control of the legal, procedural and technical fine detail.'
‘Exceptionally bright mindset, commercially oriented, pragmatic, a pleasure to work with. I feel safe in their hands and they’re always on top of things. I have the privilege to work with many top-tier law firms but BCLP stands out from the rest, they’re just unique. ’
‘Andrew Hockley and Ben Bolderson are absolutely outstanding lawyers. Commercial, pragmatic and so easy to work with. They’re just an extension of the in house legal team.’
‘The team is highly competent and a pleasure to work with. They're both commercial and technical in their approach to competition law, and we achieved outcome exceeding my initial expectations.’
‘Andrew Hockley is an exceptional competition law partner. He's very smart, experienced, and pleasant.'
Key clients
- easyJet
- Royal Mail Group Ltd
- Driscoll’s Inc
- Lumen Technologies
- BT
- Tesco
- Thames Water
- London Stock Exchange Group
- Vantiva S.A.
- BGC
- Redde Northgate
- Moneysupermarket.com
- Morgan Stanley
- Northern & Shell
- Logitix
Work highlights
- Advising Driscoll’s Inc on all global antitrust and foreign investment aspects of its acquisition with Paine Schwartz Partners.
- Advising Canal+ on all competition, regulatory and foreign investment aspects of its USD 1.8 billion mandatory takeover offer for Africa’s leading media company, Multichoice Group.
- Advised Lumen Technologies on the merger control, telco regulatory and investment screening aspects of the sale of Lumen's Europe, Middle East and Africa business to Colt Technology Services for USD 1.8bn.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Andrew Hockley, Edward Coulson