Whitfield has extensive experience advising on large-scale UK, EU and international merger control matters, cartel investigations and competition litigation. The firm said his practice gives him ‘a unique capability to advise on the full spectrum of competition law issues’.
Shane Gleghorn, UK managing partner, said Whitfield is ‘a leading competition law expert with an outstanding track record’ whose arrival ‘strengthens our Competition practice and supports our ambitious growth plans’. Sian Skelton, head of tech and regulatory, added that he brings ‘exceptional breadth of expertise at a time when the global competition regulation landscape is rapidly evolving’.
Whitfield said: ‘I’m very pleased to join Taylor Wessing’s Competition practice,’ adding that he looked forward to ‘building a diverse competition practice within a firm that has clear growth ambitions’.
