Allen & Overy today announces the appointment of Alasdair Balfour as a Partner in its London Antitrust Group.
Alasdair joins from Fried Frank where he advised multi-national clients on UK and EU antitrust matters, with a particular focus on cross-border merger control, cartel work and other antitrust infringements. He has extensive experience of in-depth merger investigations at EU and UK level, including several remedies cases.
Mark Friend, head of Allen & Overy’s London Antitrust Group, said: “We are delighted to welcome Alasdair to our team. We’ve made a number of important hires across the firm recently and Alasdair’s experience will fit perfectly in our highly regarded London practice.”
Alasdair said: “A&O has an unrivalled international network and an enviable corporate client base. I’m looking forward to continuing to build my practice there.”
Elaine Johnston, co-head of Allen & Overy’s Global Antitrust Group, added: “We are very pleased Alasdair is joining us in London. He brings expertise and skills which will complement the work we do both in London and elsewhere in our network. As our global team continues to work on the most complex cross-border matters our intention is to build on our leading capability in London and grow significantly in other key hubs including Brussels, Beijing and Washington DC.”
Allen & Overy’s antitrust and competition team comprises over 100 specialists located across Europe, the United States and the Asia-Pacific region. We advise companies on their global antitrust policies, litigation and regulatory strategies and have acted on some of the highest-profile and most complex cases in recent years. We advised Sun Microsystems on its merger with Oracle; Seagate Technology on the EU, China and global (ex-U.S.) merger control aspects of its acquisition of the hard disk drive business of Samsung Electronics; Orange Austria and its controlling shareholder Mid-Europa Partners on the European regulatory and merger control aspects of its acquisition by Hutchinson 3G Austria (H3G); and we continue to advise Samsung Electronics in relation to the manner in which it sought injunctive relief against Apple for infringement of Samsung’s mobile phone Standard Essential Patents (SEPs).
