Mark Jones
Global Guide 2024
Band 4 : Competition Law
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Provided by Mark Jones
Practice Areas
Mark Jones has over 20 years' experience advising on complex and high-profile competition/antitrust issues. Mark focuses on obtaining competition clearances for mergers and acquisitions transactions and joint ventures, and representing clients in cartel, monopoly, and market investigations. He is equally at home advising on UK, EU, and multi-jurisdictional matters.
Mark also regularly advises on issues relating to the economic regulation of utilities, the EU state aid rules, and the public procurement rules.
Mark understands what makes regulators tick. His experience includes a secondment to the Office of Fair Trading, the then lead UK competition authority, and he has acted for a number of UK regulators with concurrent competition/antitrust powers.
Sectors in which Mark has particular experience include financial institutions, energy/infrastructure, and consumer/retail. He is a recognized competition lawyer in the legal directories, including Chambers and Partners.
Chambers Review
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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."
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