Competition & Antitrust

A renowned leader in competition law

Ashurst has a market-leading global competition practice, with a team of over 80 antitrust lawyers and economists providing advice from our offices in Abu Dhabi, Brisbane, Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Munich, Paris, Perth, Singapore and Sydney.

Our team is highly experienced across the full suite of competition law issues including advising on merger control (including multi-jurisdictional filings), cartels/anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, market/sector investigations, competition litigation, consumer law, state aid, public procurement, foreign direct investment and trade law, together with sector-specific regulation across a range of regulated industries. We advise clients globally, including in the Middle East and across Asia, as well as in Europe and Australia. We deal on a daily basis with the European Commission and European courts, as well as the regulatory authorities in numerous jurisdictions around the world.

The team is ranked by Global Competition Review (GCR) as one of the top 20 'Global Elite' competition practices.

We are also one of the very few international law firms with an in-house team of economists and believe that robust commercial antitrust advice must be grounded in solid economic assessment from the outset. Our fully integrated legal and economics expertise mirrors teams fielded by competition authorities, and clients consistently identify this as a crucial differentiating factor that adds significant value across the board, but particularly in complex matters.