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Matthew Readings
Biography
Matthew advises on UK and EU competition law, both transactional and behavioural/contentious, and on UK and international foreign investment control.
Matthew advises clients across a broad range of sectors on strategic international merger control and foreign investment approval issues, represents clients before the CMA and European Commission, oversees multi-jurisdictional merger reviews in countries throughout the world and handles complex CMA and European Commission cases, including Phase II investigations and remedy cases, as well as sensitive foreign investment screenings.
Matthew advises on European Commission and UK cartel investigations and market studies and investigations by the CMA and sector regulators including the FCA. He is experienced in private enforcement of antitrust rights in the UK courts.
Practice areas
- Antitrust
- Financial services advisory and regulatory
- Disputes
Sectors
- Financial institutions
- Technology
- Private capital
- Private credit
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Sports
- Communications media and entertainment
Selected experience
- Areva in the cartel damages action brought by National Grid in the English High Court against Areva and a number of other defendants.
- Credit Suisse on a settlement with the European Commission in the CHF LIBOR cartel case.
- Dover Corporation on its acquisition of the business of FW Murphy Production Controls.
- ICE on the CMA Phase II investigation of its acquisition of Trayport, and subsequent court appeals.
- Raytheon on the European Commission and international merger control and foreign investment approvals for its $120 billion defence merger with United Technologies, obtained with remedies.
- Aditya Birla on its European Commission clearance for its acquisition of Columbian Chemicals following an Article 22 referral by the German, UK and Spanish competition authorities.
- ADNOC Distribution on its acquisition of a 50% stake in Total Egypt.
- ADNOC on its acquisition of a minority stake in the Masdar renewable energy business resulting in a joint venture with TAQA and Mubadala, as well as the formation of a green hydrogen joint venture between the same parties.
- ADNOC on its acquisition of Mubadala’s 24.9% stake in OMV.
- ADNOC on the acquisition of Mubadala’s 25% stake in Borealis.
Education
- L.L.M, Nottingham University, 1992
- Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, 1993
Admissions
- Law Society of England & Wales, 1996
- Practising Certificate (England & Wales), 2007