Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: David Harrison to co-lead Mayer Brown’s European Antitrust & Competition team, (May 1, 2015)

International law firm Mayer Brown is adding antitrust attorney David Harrison to the firm’s London office as a partner and co-lead of the firm’s European Antitrust & Competition team. He joins from Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP.

Harrison has more than 27 years of experience and has advised various global corporations across a wide range of industries and in a number of high profile global cartel investigations, such as the European Commission’s investigations into automotive parts, foreign exchange, and freight forwarding. Harrison also has deep merger control experience and has advised clients on abuse of dominance, complaints, compliance, and litigation at the European Union and national level. He will co-lead the European Antitrust & Competition team alongside Dr. Jens Peter Schmidt.

“David is a considerably accomplished and experienced competition lawyer and his arrival will strengthen our ability to provide clients [with] the very best legal advice in this area,” stated Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice leader David Allen. “His appointment also signals an important step in our long term plans to further integrate our antitrust and competition capabilities across Europe.”

“I look forward enormously to working with Jens and the rest of the worldwide team,” Harrison said. “Internationally, Mayer Brown has a hugely strong antitrust capability, with a market-leading reputation across a wide range of areas and locations on four continents. The firm has ambitious plans to develop this further, in the context of the growth of its global antitrust practice and the wider firm. It is a very exciting time to join the firm and I welcome the opportunity to work with the team to achieve its goals.”

Mayer Brown is a global law firm with roughly 1,500 attorneys in 22 offices across the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

Attorneys: David Harrison, David Allen, and Hens Peter Schmidt (Mayer Brown)

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