Matthew Oregan

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ABOUT MATTHEW OREGAN

a highly experienced competition lawyer. As well as being highly knowledgeable, he produces detailed and well-researched written submissions. He also has particularly good commercial awareness. He is a go-to junior barrister and the leading competition barrister not based in London.” (Legal 500 UK Bar, 2024)“very strong and has a great knowledge across different sectors.” (Chambers UK Bar, 2024)“very responsive and proactive. very versatile and has good technical knowledge. He tries to find solutions and work around timescales.” (Legal 500 UK Bar, 2023)“Matthew has a strong understanding of competition law. He communicates very clearly and easily for commercial clients in such a way that they quickly understand the complex issues at hand.” (Legal 500 UK Bar, 2023)\"very client-friendly, pragmatic and commercial. He is brilliantly responsive and knows his stuff.\"(Chambers UK Bar 2021)\"combines an in-depth understanding of competition law with a hugely pragmatic and commercial approach to cases\"(Legal 500 UK Bar 2021)I am an experienced competition lawyer, combining my legal expertise, experience and understanding of clients\' businesses and their commercial objectives to provide pragmatic, commercially-focused and solution-oriented strategic advice and representation to businesses, public authorities, third sector clients and individuals. I have appeared before the EU courts in leading cartel and State aid cases and undertake competition litigation before the English courts, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and arbitration panels, including appeals, judicial reviews, director disqualification proceedings and both standalone and follow-on claims and damages actions. I have obtained EU, UK and other merger clearances for complex and multi-jurisdictional mergers, including negotiating complex remedies. I defend companies in cartel, antitrust and dominance investigations, including obtaining leniency and successfully concluding investigations by agreeing commitments. I advise on the EU State aid and UK subsidy control rules and CMA market studies and investigations.I am an Editor of \"Chitty on Contracts\"(35th edn, 2023; 34th edn, 2021), authoring the chapter on \"Restrictive Agreements and Competition\" and a co-Editor of both \"Garzaniti - Electronic Communications, Audiovisual Services and the Internet: EU Competition Law and Regulation\"(4th edn, 2020), contributing the mergers chapter, and the Competition Law Journal (published by Edward Elgar Publishing). I publish and speak on range of competition and subsidy control matters.