Stephen Kon Senior consultant

Senior consultant

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Stephen has 40 years’ experience advising and representing clients in a wide range of EU law and UK competition and regulatory matters and is widely recognised as a leading EU and UK competition and regulation lawyer.

Stephen’s extensive experience spans advising and representing clients on some of the largest and highest profile transactional and behavioural competition and regulatory matters, both contentious and non-contentious, at EU and UK domestic level. Over recent years his work has included advising on Brexit and its consequences for clients’ businesses. His practice has included advising, acting and often appearing as advocate in a large number of leading cases before UK and EU competition authorities and EU and UK courts and tribunals, including cutting edge merger and cartel cases and judicial challenges to EU and UK government decisions or actions.

As an advocate, he has Higher Rights of Audience and is also a mediator accredited by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR). He has published widely on a wide range of EU and UK domestic competition and regulatory matters.

Expertise

Competition/antitrust

What people are saying

"Clients benefit from Stephen Kon's vast experience in EC and CMA investigations, which he provides pursuant to his role as a senior consultant at the firm. ‘He has seen everything,’ says one source, adding: ‘He is able to understand what the key issues will be before they come up’."

Chambers UK 2020

In depth

Government to implement proposals to allow Court of Appeal to depart from CJEU case law

Jonathan Pratt, Stephen Kon 20 Oct 2020

The Government has released draft regulations that will allow the Court of Appeal, and other appellate courts in the UK, to depart from Court of Justice of the European Union...

Understanding the current rules and regulations around takeovers by overseas buyers

Christophe Humpe, Stephen Kon 21 Apr 2020

In light of recent media concern that overseas buyers are about to take advantage of asymmetric valuation and currency conditions to acquire businesses and technology in the UK or...

Brexit – Where do we stand and what happens now?

Stephen Kon, Jonathan Pratt 13 Dec 2019

Following the election result, it seems likely that the UK will leave the EU on 31 January 2020 on the terms of the revised Withdrawal Agreement (the “WA”), which was agreed at...