Competition Tech
Helping tech companies of all sizes navigate the challenging regulatory landscape.
Competition authorities worldwide have focused their recent attention on the digital sector given its importance to the economy and society at large. In addition to the numerous competition probes into digital markets around the globe, several jurisdictions have introduced digital regulation to address potential competition concerns in this space. Against the backdrop of this heightened focus on the digital sector, we help tech companies of all sizes navigate the challenging regulatory landscape.
Slaughter and May’s Competition group has a market leading practice in antitrust, competition litigation, consumer protection, market inquiries, merger control, and subsidies control. Many of the world’s largest companies turn to us to advise them on business-critical competition matters. As we are regularly involved in major matters before the competition authorities worldwide, we understand the objectives and priorities of regulators. This experience enables us to achieve strategically and commercially successful results for our clients.
We frequently advise clients on:
- The competition and regulatory aspects of acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures - we have a particular expertise in handling complex international deals
- Business-critical antitrust investigations as well as a wide range of day-to-day competition compliance matters
- Digital regulation such as the EU Digital Markets Act and the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act
- Market inquires conducted by competition authorities around the world
- Consumer protection investigations and compliance issues
- Competition damages claims and appeal proceedings
- Subsidy control, including investigations, transactions and litigious proceedings
KEY EXPERIENCE
We have advised Google on several antitrust investigations and market inquiries around the world.
We have advised Meta on several merger control and competition law matters around the world.
We advised Booking.com on the multijurisdictional online hotel booking investigations and on the merger control filings for its acquisitions of Etraveli, HotelsCombined and Momondo.
We advised Salesforce on its acquisition of Tableau.
We advised Netflix on the successful resolution of the European Commission’s preliminary competition investigation into the Alliance for Open Media’s royalty-free licensing policy.
We advised Activision Blizzard on the CMA review of its acquisition by Microsoft.
