Tax issues on stake sales and investment into managers: structuring, pitfalls and steps to take now
About
Matthew has experience advising clients on merger control matters, competition litigation, regulatory investigations and bespoke behavioural-related advice.
He has worked with clients in a wide range of sectors including digital markets, financial services and the transport industry.
Matthew was on secondment at Mozilla from September 2024 to March 2025, working on digital markets competition matters, including related to the new UK regime which launched in January 2025.
He also completed a client secondment at Associated British Foods (ABF) from April 2019 to January 2020. During his time at ABF, Matthew worked on a range of different competition matters and took an active role in ABF’s competition compliance program.
Experience
- Private damages actions / collective proceedings: Advising a major international bank in relation to private damages actions and collective proceedings brought against a number of Defendants arising out of alleged anti-competitive conduct in relation to foreign exchange.
- Digital Markets Competition Regulation: Advising a multinational technology company on engagement with the Competition and Markets Authority in relation to the UK's digital markets competition regime.
- Merger control: Advising on the competition law aspects of the sale of a UK-listed company.
- Private damages actions: Advising a company active in the sports data sector on a private damages action in the Competition Appeal Tribunal brought by one of its main competitors.