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Their antitrust team is outstanding. They understood our business before the first agency meeting.
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Practical advice, no theater, and a team that stayed available throughout.
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Calm and strategic under real pressure from two agencies at once.
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They mapped the entire global clearance path and then hit every date they set.
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Superb at persuading regulators with economic evidence rather than adjectives.
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Their advocacy before the Commission was clear, disciplined and effective.
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They anticipated the second request and had us ready for it months in advance.
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Credible with enforcers and with courts. That combination is rare.
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The firm's counseling on pricing and distribution practices kept us out of trouble.
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Their litigators took a class action seriously from day one and it showed in the result.
Overview
Corvane Ryle's global Antitrust & Competition practice helps clients navigate the world's competition regimes, secure merger approvals, and avoid, resolve or defeat challenges from enforcement bodies and private litigants.
Our lawyers in Washington, D.C., Brussels, London, San Francisco, New York and Frankfurt have represented clients before the US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority, and agencies across Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Many have served in government, which shapes how we assess risk and present a case.
Merger control is where the work is most intense. The revised Hart-Scott-Rodino form, effective since early 2025, requires richer narrative and document disclosures, and early planning is now essential for any transaction with overlaps. The 2023 US Merger Guidelines remain the enforcers' reference point, while in the UK the CMA's merger approach has become more focused on pragmatism and speed. In Europe, the Digital Markets Act and increased use of call-in powers by national authorities add new layers. Foreign subsidies regulation adds another filing track for deals involving non-EU state-linked funding.
Conduct and litigation work is equally active: abuse of dominance and monopolization investigations in technology, algorithmic pricing and information-sharing risk, labor market no-poach theories, and class actions that follow government cases. Priya Raghunathan in London leads our European competition work and helps clients coordinate positions across agencies.
Facing a merger review or investigation?
Early planning changes outcomes. Talk to our antitrust team about strategy and timing.
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Representative experience
- Secured unconditional clearance in the US, EU and UK for a global technology merger involving more than 30 overlapping product lines.
- Obtained clearance for Halvern Retail Group's acquisition of Brightmoor Foods following an extended agency review.
- Represented a payments company in a European Commission investigation into interchange and platform rules.
- Defended a consumer goods manufacturer against a putative nationwide price-fixing class action, obtaining dismissal.
- Advised an AI developer on the antitrust analysis of a strategic partnership with a cloud provider.
- Represented a life sciences company in a pharmaceutical pay-for-delay inquiry.