Josh Buckland is a Partner in the Firm’s antitrust and foreign investment group. With more than 10 years of experience in obtaining governmental approvals on complex global transactions, he is known for calmly steering clients through large-scale investigations and counseling on a broad range of regulatory issues.
Josh leads on cross-border matters around the world, with a particular focus on navigating the European antitrust landscape. He regularly engages with the European Commission and the U.K.’s CMA on merger reviews (Phase 1 and 2), cartels and other antitrust investigations.
Josh is also at the forefront of European foreign investment and national security issues, having established a stellar track-record of approvals for sensitive transactions under the U.K.’s National Security and Investment Act and with national authorities throughout Europe.
Josh is a trusted advisor to leading private equity clients and other multinationals across a range of sectors, including tech, defense, media/telecoms, financial services, healthcare, industrials and retail. He possesses an insider’s perspective on the U.K.’s TMT regulatory environment, having completed a nine-month secondment to Ofcom’s Competition Group in May 2020.
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Work Highlights
- EQT on a number of transactions, including its successful take-private buyouts of OX2 and Radius Global Infrastructure
- Paramount Global in connection with its proposed acquisition by SkyDance Media
- Blackstone on a variety of deals, including its acquisitions of Civica and Emerson’s climate technologies business
- The Board of Twitter on its acquisition by Elon Musk
- KKR on matters including its acquisition of Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global
- Microsoft in relation to its acquisition of Xandr from AT&T
- Huws Gray on its acquisition of Grafton Group’s generalist builders’ merchant business, on which the CMA consulted on Phase I remedies using an innovative “fast-track” procedure
Education
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King’s College London, 2017 M.A. in EU Competition Law
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University of Melbourne, 2014 LL.M. in Competition Law
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University of Melbourne, 2009 Bachelor of Arts (Media & Communications)
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University of Melbourne, 2009 Bachelor of Laws
Admissions
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Brussels
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England and Wales
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Victoria, Australia
Josh Buckland is a Partner in the Firm’s antitrust and foreign investment group. With more than 10 years of experience in obtaining governmental approvals on complex global transactions, he is known for calmly steering clients through large-scale investigations and counseling on a broad range of regulatory issues.
Josh leads on cross-border matters around the world, with a particular focus on navigating the European antitrust landscape. He regularly engages with the European Commission and the U.K.’s CMA on merger reviews (Phase 1 and 2), cartels and other antitrust investigations.
Josh is also at the forefront of European foreign investment and national security issues, having established a stellar track-record of approvals for sensitive transactions under the U.K.’s National Security and Investment Act and with national authorities throughout Europe.
Josh is a trusted advisor to leading private equity clients and other multinationals across a range of sectors, including tech, defense, media/telecoms, financial services, healthcare, industrials and retail. He possesses an insider’s perspective on the U.K.’s TMT regulatory environment, having completed a nine-month secondment to Ofcom’s Competition Group in May 2020.
Josh's recent work highlights include advising:
- EQT on a number of transactions, including its successful take-private buyouts of OX2 and Radius Global Infrastructure
- Paramount Global in connection with its proposed acquisition by SkyDance Media
- Blackstone on a variety of deals, including its acquisitions of Civica and Emerson’s climate technologies business
- The Board of Twitter on its acquisition by Elon Musk
- KKR on matters including its acquisition of Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global
- Microsoft in relation to its acquisition of Xandr from AT&T
- Huws Gray on its acquisition of Grafton Group’s generalist builders’ merchant business, on which the CMA consulted on Phase I remedies using an innovative “fast-track” procedure
Josh has an M.A. in EU Competition Law from King’s College London (2017), an LL.M. in Competition Law from the University of Melbourne (2014) and an LL.B. (Hons.) from the University of Melbourne (2009).
Josh is admitted to practice in England & Wales and Australia.