Practice Focus

Tim Frazer is a UK solicitor with over 25 years experience in competition and antitrust law. He represents and advises clients in a range of competition issues including merger, transactional, and conduct cases. He has obtained merger clearance at the European Commission (EC) and national competition authorities for complex cases requiring econometric evidence and Phase 1 disposals, such as Kraft Foods' hostile bid for Cadbury's plc and Kraft Foods/Danone. He has represented clients in price-fixing and other conduct cases in various jurisdictions worldwide. He has designed and implemented on-line competition compliance programmes and audits for international companies. His practice includes advising leading consumer products and pharmaceutical companies on parallel trade, abuse, and other conduct issues, and on State aids. He divides his time equally between the firm's London and Brussels offices.

Mr Frazer has advised clients in the food, tobacco, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer products industries, representing them before the UK Office of Fair Trading, the UK Competition Commission, and the EC.

He has authored several books on competition law, including Enterprise Act 2002, The Competition Act 1998, Competition Law and Policy, and Monopoly Competition and the Law, as well as many articles on competition law and theory.

Mr Frazer was previously a Professor and Dean of Law at Newcastle University.

Representative Matters

• Advised Kraft Foods on its hostile bid for Cadbury plc and on the disposal of certain businesses required by the EC
• Advised Kraft Foods International on its purchase of the global biscuits business of Danone, and on the disposal of certain brands required by the EC
• Advised Philip Morris International in clearing its acquisition of Papastratos at the EC
• Advised Kraft Foods International in clearing its acquisition of United Biscuits business in Spain and Portugal, at the EC
• Advised IPC Media PLC in relation to conduct and acquisitions in the UK
• Advised Astellas Pharma on competition issues in Europe
• Advised the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries and a number of leading pharmaceutical companies on the investigation by the Office of Fair Trading into drugs prices in the UK
• Advised Tate & Lyle PLC in relation to competition issues in Europe
• Advised Motorola on agreements and licences in Europe
• Advised eBay in relation to competition issues in Europe
• Advised Solvay UK on disposals in the UK
• Advised a number of leading pharmaceutical companies on acquisitions, co-marketing and co-promotion agreements, and supply-chain management issues in Europe
• Advised IHS (formerly Technical Indexes) on acquisitions and other competition issues in Europe
• Advised a media trade association on digital rights management issues in Europe