Competition and subsidy control

We advise on:

• Anticompetitive agreements and behaviours
• Merger control
• Fair consumer terms
• Dawn raids
• Groceries Supply Chain Code of Practice (GSCOP)
• Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order
• Subsidy control
• Compliance programs

• We have worked with a major private hospital operator to ensure three new joint ventures with referring clinicians comply with the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order
• We have advised a regional funeral director with its responses and contributions to the CMA’s market investigation in to the funeral market
• We have worked with the British Council on the State aid and competition issues arising from its status and funding
• Our subsidy control and State aid advice has assisted a number of clients to produce successful, State aid compliant, ERDF / ESIF / Local Growth Fund grant and loan applications
• We have advised a Local Enterprise Partnership client on the State aid compliance of a £15 million grant application for a sports innovation campus
• We have helped a national financial services client run a mock CMA dawn raid to check and approve its response procedures

We have worked with a wide range of clients on the impact of competition law, including;

• UK and overseas private companies
• NHS trusts
• Universities
• Local enterprise partnerships
• Central UK government departments