DLA Piper is regularly entrusted by high-profile corporations to lead their challenging standalone or follow-on competition disputes. CMA or European investigations, competition litigation, merger control and compliance matters are all routine facets of the firm's active practice. The pharmaceutical and sporting sectors are a particular areas of strength for the group. Sarah Smith is capable across EU and UK competition law as well as in relevant regulatory matters. Matt Evans and Sam Szlezinger both regularly support their clients before the European Commission and the CMA. Alexandra Kamerling frequently acts for listed and private companies, venture capitalists, and trade associations.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Sam Szlezinger has enormous experience of competition law disputes and brings calm and authority to every case. Our client, a large and well-known organisation, trusted his advice implicitly.’
‘The team is brilliant at picking up an instruction, getting to grips with it and doing an initial assessment, and then joining a meeting to ascertain any further information and deliver the advice within the same session. They communicate and collaborate very effectively with us as an in-house legal team but also with our commercial stakeholders, who really appreciate the fact that receiving advice from DLA can be very formal when required but can also be informal when appropriate.'
Key clients
- Lupin
- Heineken UK
Work highlights
- Acted for Football DataCo in its long running dispute concerning the conditions under which live league match data can be collected.
- Acting for Lupin in its long running appeal against the European Commission's 'perindopril' decision.