Nigel Parr is a partner and head of Ashurst’s global competition and antitrust team in London. He specialises in all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including mergers, strategic business advice and competition risk management, cartel and abuse of dominance cases, market/sector investigations, appeals and competition litigation. Nigel has long-standing experience of UK and EU cartel and abuse of dominance investigations and appeals to the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, the EU General Court and the European Court of Justice. His experience extends to CMA market investigations, and UK/EU and international merger filings, particularly Phase 2 cases. He is also experienced in judicial review cases before the English Administrative Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal, particularly in relation to procedural failings in competition investigations.
2020 Awards
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Dawn raids: dealing with inspections by European competition authoritiesAlexi Dimitriou, Nigel Parr, Denis Fosselard and Euan Burrows, Ashurst, November 2019
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The UK criminal cartel offenceNigel Parr, Neil Cuninghame, Euan Burrows and Alexi Dimitriou, Ashurst, October 2019
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UK public bids: interaction between the Takeover Code, merger control rules and other regulatory controlsNigel Parr, Duncan Liddell, Neil Cuninghame, Karen Davies and Euan Burrows, Ashurst, November 2019
Distinctions
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Procedure
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Concerted Practices
Winner, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Procedure
Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, General Antitrust

