Xavier Boutin is a competition expert with over twenty years of experience in the assessment of competition cases, business strategies and the evaluation of public policies, including state aid. He is recognised as a Thought Leader in competition economics by Who’s Who Legal.

Dr Boutin’s experience spans a wide variety of high-level antitrust, merger and state aid cases, including in front of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). He has also worked on various policy issues, including 101 and 102 guidelines, State Aid Modernisation, food and retail and numerous others.

Dr Boutin has led the assessment in challenging mergers both as a consultant and public enforcer across sectors including energy, oil and gas, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), media, information technology (IT), mining/quarrying and construction.

He previously held an expert role in a consulting firm and also spent almost eight years in the chief economist team of the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Competition (DG Comp).

Miranda Cole is an antitrust and competition lawyer working from our Brussels and London offices. She has a broad competition practice focussed on the technology, life sciences and healthcare, transport, and energy, infrastructure and resources sectors.

With more than 20 years' experience, Miranda is regarded as a key adviser to life sciences and technology companies globally.

Miranda has extensive experience advising clients to address increasing regulatory scrutiny from governments and competition authorities. She advises on merger control, actions under Articles 101 and 102 TFEU, abuse of dominance, anticompetitive agreements, and compliance and advisory work, as well as actions before the European courts in Luxembourg.

Miranda is also heavily involved in supporting clients in aligning their competition policy engagement in response to a variety of new regulatory frameworks.

Prior to joining the firm, Miranda was a senior partner in a multinational law firm in Brussels.

Timothy McIver is a partner in the London office. His practice focuses on EU and UK competition law and regulatory matters, including obtaining clearance for complex merger investigations before the European Commission and UK competition authorities, as well as coordinating merger control and foreign direct investment approvals across multiple jurisdictions worldwide. On the contentious side, he has broad experience advising on behavioural matters, including EU and UK investigations of alleged abuses of dominance and market investigations and studies, as well as representing clients before various UK sectoral regulators. Much of his work is international in nature and involves counselling clients on their global antitrust strategy. He has particular experience advising in the fields of financial services, technology, chemicals, energy (electricity and gas), natural resources, aviation, communications and private equity.

Kasia advises clients on a full range of competition law issues, including complex merger control and antitrust matters.

She represents clients in Phase I and Phase II merger cases before the European Commission and has broad experience advising on multijurisdictional considerations, as well as remedies in merger cases.

Kasia also defends clients in abuse of dominance, cartel and distribution-related matters. Her experience includes handling EU and national antitrust investigations and litigation before the EU and national courts. She also advises on compliance with antitrust rules, including on issues involving the intersection of IP and competition law.

Kasia received a doctorate (JSD) from Columbia Law School and has also worked in the Firm's offices in New York and Washington, DC, where her practice focused on international and US antitrust matters.