Matt is recognised by Who’s Who Legal 2023 as a thought leader among UK competition practitioners and has over 20 years' experience advising multinational and UK businesses on complex UK and EU competition law matters and UK national security filings. He coordinates transaction filing strategies across multiple jurisdictions and represents clients before the Competition & Markets Authority and European Commission, guiding them through both phase 1 and phase 2 merger control procedures.
Matt's experience spans both public and private deals, private equity and venture capital investments and joint ventures. Matt has considerable experience advising clients on foreign direct investment filings and leading discussions with the UK government on national security related matters. He also works with clients to help them prepare for EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation filings in the context of their M&A activity.
On behavioural matters, Matt represents clients in anti-trust investigations, market investigations, sector enquiries and subsidy control matters. Matt is particularly experienced helping clients develop distribution models that comply with the rules on active and passive sales whilst protecting brand values.
Matt has considerable experience advising clients in industrials, consumer goods, life sciences, transport, real estate, media, technology and energy sectors.
Matt is a former chair of the competition section of the Law Society of England and Wales (2020) and at his previous firm was global co-chair of the LGBTQ+ committee. Matt is "
pragmatic", "
excellent both technically and in terms of client skills", “
available, efficient and has good relationships with the authorities" and is “
easy to work with, a good communicator who understands how our internal teams work” Chambers, UK 2021-2023.
