Mark Jones
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Competition Law
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Band 4
About
Provided by Mark Jones
Practice Areas
Antitrust & Competition Law
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).
Chambers Review
UK
Mark Jones often advises clients on merger clearance mandates, including acting on CMA phase II investigationsand FDI notifications. He also has experience representing clients in CMA market inquiries and behavioural investigations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Mark Jones is incredibly knowledgeable and responsive, advising in a concise and commercial way. His advice could not be more helpful."
"He is incredibly smart and has the ability to explain a complex area of law in a digestible way. He really understands our business and objectives and tailors his advice to that."
"I think the clarity of his advice is what stands out. He is clearly experienced in this space."
"Mark Jones is incredibly knowledgeable and responsive, advising in a concise and commercial way. His advice could not be more helpful."
"He is incredibly smart and has the ability to explain a complex area of law in a digestible way. He really understands our business and objectives and tailors his advice to that."
"I think the clarity of his advice is what stands out. He is clearly experienced in this space."