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Tony Reeves

Tony Reeves

Title
Office Managing Partner, Brussels
Office
Clifford Chance, Brussels | View map
Practice
Antitrust, competition, EU & trade, M&A Corporate
Sector
Government & public policy, Healthcare, life sciences & chemicals, Industrials, Materials
Publications
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Tel
+3225335943

Experience and career history

Tony Reeves advises major companies from a wide range of industries on competition, trade and EU law, and specialises in particular in EU and multi-jurisdictional merger notifications, abuse of market power, cartels and distribution and licensing practices. He speaks regularly at conferences such as GCR, IBC, IBA, Chatham House, Fordham and industry events and has written for numerous legal publications and is recognised as a leading competition lawyer by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and other leading industry guides. Tony is also a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN).

University of Glasgow (Scots Law LLB)  1990
University College London (LLM EC Law) 1991
Joined Clifford Chance 1993 
Transferred to the Brussels office 1995
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1995
Member of the Brussels Bar (List E)
Partner since 2003
Head of European Competition and Regulation Group, Brussels 2008
Managing Partner of the Brussels office since 2010

Professional bodies

Member of the ABA (American Bar Association)

Highlights of deals and projects

Tony advised:

  • Citigroup on (i) the acquisition of EMI and (ii) subsequent US$1.9 billion sale of EMI Recorded Music to Universal (Phase II investigation) and (iii) US$2.2 billion sale of EMI Music Publishing to a consortium led by Sony;
  • GE on over 50 acquisitions, including (i) the $2 billion acquisition of Instrumentatium (Phase II investigation) and (ii) the US$9.5 billion acquisition of Amersham;
  • Pfizer on (i) its US$68 billion acquisition of Wyeth, (ii) its US$3.6 billion acquisition of King Pharmaceuticals and (iii) the US$11.85 billion sale of its nutrition business to Nestle;
  • Toll Group in the EU's freight forwarding cartel investigation.

Citations and awards

‘“He’s business-focused and commercially savvy” enthuses one interviewee’

Chambers Global 2012

“smart, business-minded, incredibly responsive, totally committed to his clients”

The Legal 500 2011 

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