Aaron Green

关于 Aaron Green

Aaron is a Principal Associate in our Antitrust, Competition and Trade practice, based in Brussels. He has over a decade of experience advising on all areas of EU, UK and international competition law, with particular expertise in complex merger control proceedings and digital markets regulation.

Aaron specialises in advising clients on the antitrust and regulatory aspects of their global transactions, having advised on several complex Phase I and Phase II merger control filings requiring remedies to the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority and other international competition authorities. He also has significant experience advising clients on antitrust and behavioural issues at an EU and global level.

Aaron is a leading practitioner in emerging digital markets regulation in Europe and the UK, with extensive experience advising advising major tech companies on the impact of and ongoing compliance with emerging digital regulatory regimes, including the EU’s Digital Markets Act and the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act. His experience includes a secondment at a major tech client advising on Digital Markets Act compliance. 

While Aaron specialises in advising industrials clients in transition and major tech clients, he advises across a broad range of other sectors and industries, including in particular in the logistics, energy and infrastructure sectors, as well as for private capital and sovereign wealth clients.

近期项目经验

Aaron’s experience includes advising:

• A gatekeeper on all aspects related to the EU Digital Markets Act, including gatekeeper designation, the specification of core platform services and ongoing compliance.
• Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings on the EU merger control aspects of its proposed acquisition of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, which was subject to an in-depth Phase II review by the European Commission.
• Saint-Gobain on the global merger control strategy for its $2.3bn all cash acquisition of GCP Applied Technologies, including the unconditional Phase I merger control clearances in Europe and the UK.
• AstraZeneca on the EU and UK merger control aspects of its $39bn acquisition of Alexion Pharmaceuticals. 
• Maersk on the merger control clearances of its acquisition of Hamburg Süd in over 20 jurisdictions including the EU, China and South Korea.
• Maersk on the unconditional merger control clearances of its acquisition of Senator International.
• Holcim on the merger control aspects of its $43bn merger of equals with Lafarge, and the subsequent divestment of businesses in 15 countries.
• CK Hutchison on the €21.8bn combination of its Italian mobile business with Wind Italy to create the largest mobile operator in Italy, including the negotiation of a complex remedy package.
• The administrators of Monarch Airlines on the EU and UK aviation regulation aspects of their successful sale of Monarch’s airport slots, including before the UK Civil Aviation Authority and in proceedings in the High Court of England & Wales, which were successfully overturned in the landmark judgment of the Court of Appeal.
• The administrator of Flybe on the antitrust and airline regulation aspects of the administration, including before the Civil Aviation Authority.
• On the European Commission’s antitrust investigation into cross-border access to pay-TV.