Clifford Chance
Deepaloke Chatterjee advises on all aspects of EU, UK and international competition law, including merger control, foreign investment, cartel and other types of conduct investigations, and technology regulation.
Deepaloke regularly represents clients on high-profile and complex transactions requiring merger clearances from the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission (EC), including on remedy negotiations with these agencies. Deepaloke has recently completed an extended secondment to the CMA, where he worked on a number of key Phase 1 merger investigations and obtained first-hand insights into the CMA's approach.
Deepaloke has advised major corporate enterprises, financial investors and their portfolio companies in a diverse range of industries including pharmaceuticals, technology, financial services, and consumer goods & retail. Deepaloke publishes and speaks regularly on a variety of competition law topics. He is currently an Associate Editor of the European Health & Pharmaceutical Law Review (EHPL), and a member of the judging panel for the International Moot Court Competition on Antitrust Law hosted annually by King's College London.
- A listed company on an ongoing EC cartel investigation in the consumer goods sector, including responding to a Statement of Objections and representation at an oral hearing
- Delivery Hero on successfully settling the EC's cartel investigation into food delivery services
- A tech company in relation to two EC abuse of dominance investigations
- CVC Capital Partners and its portfolio companies on the merger control and foreign investment aspects of numerous deals in the pharmaceuticals sector, including notably Cooper Consumer Health's acquisition of Viatris' European OTC portfolio
- CMA Experience (on secondment): acted as an Assistant Director (Legal) on Phase 1 mergers across a wide range of sectors