Bill Batchelor is a partner at Skadden and is based in their Brussels office. He has more than 20 years of EU and U.K. competition law experience and focuses his practice on conduct investigations, including abuse of dominance, cartels and vertical agreements. Mr. Batchelor regularly represents clients on EU and global merger control matters and litigation, and provides counsel on distribution and collaboration agreements in complex and highly regulated industries, such as health care, financial services, insurance, media and entertainment, and gambling, among others. Mr. Batchelor has spent time working in Brussels, London and Washington, D.C., as well as at EU and U.K. competition authorities. He has been recognized as a leader in his field in publications such as Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, IFLR1000, Who’s Who Legal: Competition and The Legal 500, as well as Benchmark Litigation, in which he was named a 2021 Litigation Star for Belgium - EU Competition.

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Nominee, 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers

Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Private Enforcement

Nominee, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Procedure

Nominee, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Concerted Practices

Winner, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers

Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, General Antitrust

Nominee, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, General Antitrust

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