Will Manley

Head of Digital Regulation
Joined firm 2014.

Will is Head of Digital Regulation based in our Brussels office. He has broad experience advising leading digital, technology and corporate clients on high-value matters across digital and AI regulation, antitrust and other regulatory areas.

Highlights include advising:

  • Meta in relation to various issues under the DMA, DMCCA and other similar regimes;
  • Google in relation to various antitrust investigations and inquiries relating to digital advertising and payments services;
  • A major tech platform in an offensive strategy against a designated gatekeeper under the DMA and in relation to comparable regimes in other jurisdictions;
  • A major AI company in connection with UK regulatory strategy under the DMCCA;
  • Figma on its proposed acquisition by Adobe;
  • Activision on its acquisition by Microsoft, including as intervener in Microsoft’s appeal to the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT);