Consumer Products companies have benefited from the breadth of advice we give through our pan-European association of legal practices. You will find yourself sitting alongside professionals who have worked on UK, European and global cases. Our advisors have been involved in distribution and supply agreements as well as commercial arrangements between manufacturers and retailers. Recent cases have included a cartel investigation by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading. We provide competition law compliance training programmes.

Our Competition team advises on all aspects of UK and EC competition law. We advise on the application of competition law to commercial agreements and conduct, in particular distribution and supply agreements, commercial arrangements between manufacturers and retailers, category management and, market definition.

Relevant experience includes advising:

• Sports World
• Pfizer Inc
• On competition compliance training to national sales forces of two major food manufacturers
• On EC competition law ,advice to a leading soft drinks manufacturer
• A major UK food distribution company on UK and EC merger control and the application of UK competition law