Competition

Competition law is a critical part of commercial strategy. At Acuity Law, we help clients navigate complex competition rules, manage risk, and protect their market position. Our approach is strategic, practical and grounded in real-world experience—supporting businesses through compliance challenges, investigations and disputes.

We advise across the full spectrum of UK and EU competition law, from merger control and joint ventures to cartel investigations and abuse of dominance claims. Whether you’re entering new collaborations or responding to regulator scrutiny, we help ensure your arrangements are compliant and defensible.

Our team works with clients to develop effective compliance frameworks, deliver training, and respond swiftly to enforcement action. We also represent businesses in competition disputes and advise on subsidy control and legacy State aid rules.

Core services include:

• Merger and Joint Venture Clearances
  Advising on UK/EU notifications, filing strategies, and competition risk.

• Trade Arrangements and Export Controls
  Navigating restrictions on pricing, distribution and market access.

• Commercial Structuring
  Supporting collaborations, alliances and transactions with compliance in mind.

• Abuse of Dominance & Anti-Competitive Conduct
  Addressing exploitative or exclusionary practices and regulatory risk.

• Cartels, Investigations & Dawn Raids
  Providing response strategies, leniency advice, and internal preparedness.

• Compliance Frameworks & Training
  Creating policies, audit tools and education tailored to your business.

• State Aid and Subsidy Control
  Advising on lawful use of public funding under UK and EU regimes.

• Competition Litigation
  Representing clients in investigations, disputes and appeals.

Seconded to and advising the Western Europe business unit of The Coca-Cola Company on UK and EU competition law matters, including European merger control rules, best practice training on anti-competitive behaviour, structural and commercial arrangements, and exclusivity and dominance in the UK and certain EU markets.

Advising UK Government, Scottish Government, local authorities across England and major telecoms providers on UK state aid clearances, EU General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) and wider competition law matters.

Representing a national transportation and logistics group and several other smaller logistic businesses in pursuing claims for damages against several major truck manufacturers following findings by the European Commission on involvement in a price-fixing cartel and breaking EU antitrust rules.

Advising a leading international geospatial data and technology business on competition law compliance and training, dawn raids, merger issues, market dominance and definition.

Advising medtech patent holders on competition law issues around pan-EU patent/IPR licensing and contractual arrangements, and the application of the Technology Transfer Block Exemption (TTBE) to certain product or technology markets.

Advising a leading UK university with an international reputation for teaching and research excellence on a £multimillion IP commercialisation programme, including competition law, state aid and EU public procurement issues.

Advising a university on the state aid issues arising from a £300 million major development project, including the application of the Market Economy Investor Principle.

Advising a local authority on state aid compliance relating to the administration of various national and EU funding streams.

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