Matthew Readings
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Competition Law
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About
Provided by Matthew Readings
Practice Areas
Matthew advises on UK and EU competition law, both transactional and behavioural/contentious, and on UK and international foreign investment control.
Matthew advises clients across a broad range of sectors on strategic international merger control and foreign investment approval issues, represents clients before the CMA and European Commission, oversees multi-jurisdictional merger reviews in countries throughout the world and handles complex CMA and European Commission cases, including Phase II investigations and remedy cases, as well as sensitive foreign investment screenings.
Matthew advises on European Commission and UK cartel investigations and market studies and investigations by the CMA and sector regulators including the FCA. He is experienced in private enforcement of antitrust rights in the UK courts.
Chambers Review
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Matthew Readings of A&O Shearman often assists clients from the finance and natural resources sectors with the merger clearance and FDI aspects of multi-jurisdictional transactions. He also represents clients in market studies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Matthew Readings takes time out to fully understand his clients' unique needs. He is pragmatic, disciplined and, above all else, humble."
"Matthew Readings is a commercially intelligent lawyer with excellent technical skills."
"The thing that sets him apart is his understanding of our business. He understands our business better than some internal people."
"He will see something and be proactive."
"Matthew Readings is an excellent, unflappable antitrust lawyer."
"Matthew Readings takes time out to fully understand his clients' unique needs. He is pragmatic, disciplined and, above all else, humble."
"Matthew Readings is a commercially intelligent lawyer with excellent technical skills."
"The thing that sets him apart is his understanding of our business. He understands our business better than some internal people."
"He will see something and be proactive."
"Matthew Readings is an excellent, unflappable antitrust lawyer."
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