Our team has many years of experience acting as monitoring trustee, working with competition authorities, other agencies, and businesses in a wide range of sectors, in the UK and internationally. We deliver practical and workable solutions in a pragmatic and efficient manner.

We act on merger cases and market investigations in the EU, the UK and other jurisdictions, including on cases with the European Commission (EC) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). We also act as supervisor on Takeover Panel cases.

We are experts in monitoring a wide range of structural and behavioural commitments as well as regulatory processes, including:

• Divestment remedies
• Long-term behavioural undertakings
• Interim measures including CMA initial enforcement orders (IEO)
• Complex carve-outs and asset disposals
• Extensive ring-fencing and hold-separate arrangements
• Purchaser approvals
• On-going arrangements between sellers and purchasers

Contact our monitoring trustee services team

For more information about our monitoring trustee services, please email Paul Elliot and Matthew Rose.

Competition and Markets Authority

• Demant
• Dye & Durham (UK) Limited / TM Group (UK) Limited
• Circle Health / BMI Healthcare
• ABP / Scotbeef assets
• Bauer Media Group
• Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. / Experian Limited
• Vanilla Group Ltd (JLA) / Washstation Limited
• Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. / PiC / Priory Group
• Cygnet Health Care / Universal Health Services
• Iron Mountain, Inc. / Recall Holdings
• HCA International, Inc.
• Lafarge Tarmac
• Information Resource Inc. / Aztec Group
• Global Radio / GMG

European Commission

• M.9546 gategroup Holding AG / European Business of LSG
• M.8955 Takeda / Shire
• M.8286 RHI / Magnesita Refratarios
• M.7978 Vodafone / Liberty Global
• M.7584 International Chemical Investors Group S.E.
• M.7499 Altice S.A. / PT Portugal
• M.6905 INEOS AG / Solvay SA
• M.5658 Unilever / Sara Lee Body Care
• M.4404 Universal Music Group / BMG

Other

• FA Premier League (Rights Auction)
• Melrose Industries / GKN (Takeover Panel)
• Advent / Cobham (Takeover Panel)

Global experience

We have on-the-ground experience working with companies across the world, including in:

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Italy
• Japan
• Middle East
• Netherlands
• Pakistan
• Poland
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• United States.

Sector experience

• Aerospace and defence
• Automotive
• Branded consumer products
• Business services
• Chemicals
• Data services
• Digital markets
• Energy and infrastructure
• Engineering
• Financial services
• Food production
• Healthcare (acute facilities, mental health)
• Industrial products
• Life sciences
• Media
• Pharmaceuticals
• Property services
• Software and technology
• Sports
• Telecommunications
• Veterinary services