Alec Burnside is a partner in Dechert’s Brussels office. He is a competition law specialist with three decades of experience in advising on major multinational transactions and other antitrust issues. Alec Burnside’s wide-ranging sector experience spans consumer products, energy, financial services, IT, manufacturing, military, natural resources, pharmaceuticals, telecoms, and transport and logistics. He has lived in Brussels since 1989. Alec Burnside studied at Downing College, Cambridge; College of Law, London; and the Institut d’Etudes Européennes, Brussels. He is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and a member of the Brussels Bar, as well as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, London, admitted in French and German. Mr. Burnside led Dechert’s cross-practice Brexit Task Force, comprising partners from many practice areas and offices.