Mark Jones
Europe Guide 2024
Band 4 : Competition Law
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Band 4
About
Provided by Mark Jones
Career
Mark Jones has over 25 years of experience advising on complex and high-profile competition/antitrust issues, and understands what makes regulators tick. He has obtained competition clearances for M&A transactions and joint ventures and has represented clients in cartel, monopoly, and market investigations. Mark advises on UK, EU, and multijurisdictional matters. Sectors in which he has particular experience include financial institutions, technology, pharma, energy and infrastructure, entertainment and media, and retail and consumer. Mark also regularly advises on foreign direct investment regimes, the economic regulation of utilities, and subsidy control rules. Mark's experience includes a secondment to the Office of Fair Trading, the predecessor to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Practice Areas
Antitrust & Competition Law
Chambers Review
Europe
Mark Jones often advises clients on merger clearance mandates, including acting on CMA phase II investigations. He also has experience representing clients in CMA market inquiries and behavioural investigations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Mark has a good understanding of how our business operates and can generally provide clear initial advice which is helpful when working under time pressure."
"Mark is responsive, pragmatic, hands-on and digests quickly the intricacies of bespoke commercial arrangements."
"He is an excellent, pragmatic and personable competition lawyer. We are grateful to have him supporting us."
"Mark has a good understanding of how our business operates and can generally provide clear initial advice which is helpful when working under time pressure."
"Mark is responsive, pragmatic, hands-on and digests quickly the intricacies of bespoke commercial arrangements."
"He is an excellent, pragmatic and personable competition lawyer. We are grateful to have him supporting us."