Alastair Mordaunt

Practice Areas

Alastair has more than 20 years of experience as a private practitioner and regulator across three continents giving him a deep understanding of working effectively with regulatory regimes to achieve successful outcomes in transactional and investigatory matters.

As a partner in our UK antitrust, competition and trade practice, Alastair assists clients before UK, EU and Asian regulators across the full range of competition-related work, including merger control and foreign investment, cartels and abuse of dominance issues. He has previously worked in the firm’s offices in Brussels, Hong Kong and Washington DC.

Alastair also co-heads a highly integrated team of specialists who are navigating the evolving foreign investments law landscape. Our multijurisdictional approach is often called upon by clients to solve their most complex investment regulatory consents across jurisdictions.

Alastair’s government experience includes four years as a senior official at the UK’s competition authority, the Office of Fair Trading. In addition, he was recently a non-governmental adviser to the Hong Kong Competition Commission and for several years to the UK’s competition authority.

Alastair is a frequent speaker at international conferences on competition and foreign investment law, and has authored and edited a numerous publications on these issues. He is an Officer of the International Bar Association’s Antitrust Section and until recently co-chaired its Mergers Working Group. He is ranked as a leading lawyer in the legal directories for antitrust and foreign investment.

Career

Alastair has more than 20 years of experience as a private practitioner and regulator, including over 15 years at Freshfields, four years at the UK’s Office of Fair Trading, and five years at another UK law firm.

Professional Memberships

The Law Society of Hong Kong

The Law Society of England and Wales

The Law Society of Ireland

Publications

Competition Law Treatment of Joint Ventures – A Jurisdictional Guide (Co-editor and also co-author for China chapter)

GTDT – Merger Control 2023: Hong Kong

GCR Asia-Pacific Antitrust Review 2017 – 2021: Hong Kong

First blood: Hong Kong Competition Commission triumphs before the tribunal, Competition Law Insight, July 2019, Volume 18, Issue 7 (Nominee of the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Asian Antitrust)