"Very good people, broad practice, lots of jurisdictions, a lot of merger work, state aid and cartel: high quality," says a peer. One client recommends the firm saying: "Good communication, friendly, always available [and] very knowledgeable....
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"Very good people, broad practice, lots of jurisdictions, a lot of merger work, state aid and cartel: high quality," says a peer. One client recommends the firm saying: "Good communication, friendly, always available [and] very knowledgeable."
Among the leading individuals in the firm's 40-strong partnership is John Kallaugher, who is recommended in the telecoms sector especially, Javier Ruiz-Calzado (the Brussels and Spain co-chair), Brussels-based Howard Rosenblatt and Marc Hansen (who splits his time between London and Brussels).
On the cartel side, the firm advised Toshiba, Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIAC) and ArcelorMittal. The latter case followed nine years of investigation by the Commission into the prestressing steel cartel, and recently resulted in the firm winning an unprecedented reduction of fines for its client from €276 million to €46 million. The case has prompted new policy announcements on fining levels and the procedure of revealing fining levels recipients.
L&W also received favourable results for SIAC (a case which spanned Europe, the Americas and Asia), which it is now defending against on damages claims by British Airways. The Toshiba case was notable for its use of the new settlement procedures.
Merger cases included the firm's advice to Live Nation on its $2.5 billion merger with Ticketmaster, which resulted in phase one clearance.
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