Christopher Cook
Europe Guide 2024
Band 4 : Competition: EU
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About
Provided by Christopher Cook
Practice Areas
Chris Cook’s practice focuses on international competition and antitrust law. In the transactional field, he has extensive experience representing both transacting and opposing parties in mergers and joint ventures before the European Commission and various antitrust and foreign investment regulators in and beyond Europe. He has also worked on a number of non-transactional competition matters in Europe and abroad involving alleged abusive conduct and cartel behavior.
Chris is a co-author of the leading treatise on EU merger control, updated annually.
Career
Chris joined the firm in 1997, became counsel in 2006, and a partner in 2014. From 1997-99, he was based in the Washington, D.C., office.
He holds the following degrees: J.D. from Cornell Law School (1997); M.A. - University of Ottawa (1994); B.A. - University of Alberta (1991).
Professional Memberships
Chris is member of the Bars of Brussels, District of Columbia, England and Wales, Ireland and New York.
Publications
He is a co-author of the annual publications "European Merger Control Law: A Guide to the Merger Regulation", and
“Recent Developments in EU Merger Remedies,” Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2015-2020
Personal
Chris is a native English speaker, and is proficient in French and Italian.
Chambers Review
Europe
Christopher Cook handles both EU and wider global merger notifications in support of high-value corporate transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He knows us and how we operate and is good at truly advising us. I consider him a canary in the coal mine. I find him to be very reasonable and practical.
"The calibre of his antitrust knowledge is really superb."
"He is pleasant to work with."
"He knows us and how we operate and is good at truly advising us. I consider him a canary in the coal mine. I find him to be very reasonable and practical.
"The calibre of his antitrust knowledge is really superb."
"He is pleasant to work with."