CMS is a go-to firm for the gamut of strategic competition advice, with a particularly strong track-record advising on the most high-profile investigations and mergers in the Scottish market, recently seeing rapid growth in the amount of subsidy control mandates handled. Graeme Young leads the team from Edinburgh, bringing over two decades of experience advising major clients on competition compliance, commercial agreements and sales practices, competition and regulatory investigations, and merger control. The team was bolstered by the addition of Wendy Nicolson and senior associate Emma Blundell from Pinsent Masons LLP, the former specialising in public procurement, especially in the life sciences, energy, utilities and defence sectors.
Key clients
- SSE Plc
- NatWest Group Plc (NWG)
Work highlights
- Acting for Canadian-listed D&D, a leading provider of cloud-based software and technology solutions, on the CMA’s merger investigation into its completed acquisition of TM Group.
- Acting for Microsoft as defendant in an action brought by a second-hand software reseller claiming damages and injunctive relief for infringement of the Chapter II Prohibition Competition Act 1998.