Areas of expertise
Recent work
Alexander advises clients on a broad range of EU and UK competition law matters, in particular merger control, foreign investment, antitrust and other behavioural matters, subsidy control and competition litigation.
Experience includes advising:
- Vodafone on several transactions in Europe, including:
- its joint venture with Three UK
- its acquisition of Liberty Global’s operations in Germany and eastern Europe, and related appeals
- its fibre joint venture with Altice in Germany
- the disposals of its Spanish and Hungarian businesses
- Japan Industrial Partners on its acquisition of Toshiba
- Booking on its proposed acquisition of Etraveli Group
- S&P Global on its acquisition of IHS Markit
- Marsh & McLennan Companies on its acquisition of Jardine Lloyd Thompson
- Edrington on the sale of The Famous Grouse to William Grant & Sons
- INEOS on the sale of its Composites business to KPS Capital Partners; and its acquisition of TotalEnergies’ 50% interest in three joint venture chemical production businesses
- ITV on the CMA’s investigation in relation to the purchase of freelance services in the production and broadcasting of sports content in the UK
- Banco Santander Totta on a reference to the Court of Justice of the EU by the Portuguese competition tribunal
Alexander has been resident in our Brussels office since 2013. He is a member of the Brussels Bar (A list) and is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. Alexander is recognised as a ‘Future Leader’ by Lexology Index.