Antonio Bavasso - Partner

Antonio Bavasso is a leading antitrust lawyer with extensive experience in merger reviews, government antitrust investigations, antitrust litigation, and counseling on a variety of competition issues. He advises clients across a broad range of industries, including the technology, media, and telecom sector, in a wide variety of matters before the European Commission, the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority, and other global competition authorities.

Antonio leads the Firm’s European antitrust and foreign investment group and is considered one of the top advisors on merger control and regulatory litigation. He has represented clients in obtaining antitrust approvals in numerous precedent-setting and challenging transactions in the technology, media, and telecom sector, including his recent representation of Liberty Global plc in its GBP31bn deal with Telefónica SA to merge Virgin Media (the U.K. subsidiary of Liberty Global) and O2. He also has extensive experience in antitrust litigation, having advised on complex merger control cases before the Competition Appeal Tribunal of the United Kingdom, the Court of Appeal, and the EU General Court.

Ross Ferguson - Partner

Ross Ferguson advises clients on all aspects of EU and U.K. merger control and antitrust regulation, including complex cross-border transactions, antitrust investigations and foreign direct investment reviews. He has extensive antitrust experience in a multitude of industries, including in financial services, infrastructure and technology and telecommunications.

Ross has been recognised in Who’s Who Legal Future Leaders as “an excellent competition lawyer. . . . He is efficient and reactive. It is a pleasure working with him.”

Étienne Renaudeau - Partner

Étienne Renaudeau focuses his practice on obtaining antitrust approvals of high-profile transactions, which are often cross-border and global in scope, as well as advising clients on antitrust litigation and ongoing counseling. He has represented clients in matters involving the European Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the French Competition Authority and other global competition authorities. He has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal as a 2023 “Global Elite Thought Leader – Under 45” and previously as a “Future Leader,” for six consecutive years, in the area of Competition.

Henry Llewellyn - Counsel

Henry Llewellyn focuses his practice on obtaining antitrust, foreign direct investment and EU foreign subsidies regulation approvals of high-profile transactions, which are often cross-border and global in scope. He has represented clients in matters involving the European Commission, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Federal Trade Commission and other global competition authorities.