Global Competition Review (GCR) has recognized Squire Patton Boggs as one of the world’s leading law firms for competition matters in the latest GCR 100, its comprehensive listing of the world’s best competition practices.
Squire Patton Boggs was recognized as a ‘Recommended’ firm in three key jurisdictions, the competition hubs of Brussels, London and Washington, DC.
Client highlights include:
- Advising retail solution designer ITAB on its €320 million acquisition of HMY
- Representing French technology and defence group Exosens in its buyout of NVLS
- Advising the Automobile Manufacturers’ Association in the CMA’s end-of-life vehicles cartel investigation
- Representing Pets At Home Group Plc in the CMA’s market investigation into veterinary services
- Representing sugar group Tereos in securing unconditional CMA clearance (under the exiting firm defence) for the sale of certain assets to T&L Sugars
- Advising Nationwide Life Insurance on its $1.25 billion acquisition of Allstate’s employer stop-loss segment
- Advising Valvoline in the FTC’s second request review of its $625 million acquisition of Breeze Autocare
- Defending Securus Technologies in a price-fixing class action, securing dismissal through arbitration
- Counselling Old National Bancorp on its $1.4 billion acquisition of Bremer Financial, creating one of the top 25 US-based banking institutions
The annual GCR 100 rankings of firms in each jurisdiction are based on independent research conducted through GCR’s annual questionnaire and call for submissions, as well as interviews with lawyers. This market intelligence is supported by what GCR reporters in the US, UK and Brussels learn from talking every day to competition lawyers, economists, academics and enforcement officials around the world.
The Squire Patton Boggs Antitrust & Competition practice has expertise in key locations around the globe, advising the world’s leading companies on innovative ways to pilot through the shifting landscape of complex merger control, cartel defense, investigations and competition litigation across jurisdictions and industries. Several lawyers among the global team have also spent portions of their careers with Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DOJ), Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) or European Commission.