Mr. Batchelor regularly represents clients on EU and global merger control matters and litigation, and provides counsel on distribution and collaboration agreements in complex and highly regulated industries, such as health care, financial services, insurance, media and entertainment, and gambling, among others.

Mr. Batchelor has spent time working in Brussels, London and Washington, D.C., as well as at EU and U.K. competition authorities. He has been recognized as a leader in his field in publications such as Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, IFLR1000 and The Legal 500, as well as Benchmark Litigation, in which he was named a 2021 Litigation Star for Belgium - EU Competition.

Among his recent experience, Mr. Batchelor has:

• represented Zuber and Mohsin Issa, owners of EG Group, and TDR Capital LLP in their acquisition of a majority stake in ASDA Group Limited from Walmart Inc.;
• represented Gilead Sciences, Inc. in its US$5.1 billion transaction with Galapagos NV. This transaction was named M&A Deal of the Year at the IFRL1000 Europe 2020 Awards;
• represented Dyson before the EU courts challenging labeling regulations favoring competing vacuum cleaners. This case was named an Impact Case of the Year at the Benchmark Litigation 2020 Europe Awards;
• advised on merger control and joint ventures in relation to the BP/Nova styrenics joint venture (for BP); Cisco/WebEx (for Cisco); Bain/American-Standard (for American Standard); OTPP/Camelot (for OTPP); Canal+/TVN (for Canal+); Warner Bros./Eyeworks (for Warner Bros.); and ADM/Wilmar (for ADM);
• annulled a cartel decision and fines of €519 million involving the synthetic rubber cartel; annulled a €119 million fine involving the GIS cartel;
• secured one of the lowest negotiated settlements in the seven-year-long DRAM investigation, halving the fine in the Windows Mountings case based on financial distress;
• secured immunity or substantial leniency discounts in the pipe fittings, citric acid and sodium gluconate cartels;
• settled the investigation of a large multinational bank in the EU Belgian banks cartel investigation;
• settled the 9/11 aviation insurance cartel inquiry on behalf of a major reinsurer;
• represented a pharmaceutical company before the General Court in an alleged “reverse payment” settlement agreement; and
• represented KirchMedia (now Infront), and subsequently FIFA, before the EU courts reversing EU decisions mandating free-to-air coverage of the FIFA World Cup.

Miguel Perez Guerra is a Director and the Head of Antitrust, IP and Commercial Law at AB InBev, where he oversees a team of lawyers and takes care of competition matters throughout Europe. He was previously Director of Antitrust EMEA at PayPal, a position he took after many years as senior competition counsel at Google in London, where he advised on a variety of high-calibre antitrust cases throughout the EMEA region. He previously worked at Amazon in its European headquarters in Luxembourg, where he was lead counsel to the retail and marketplace e-commerce businesses. Since 2020 he has also been a Non-Governmental Advisor to the European Commission at the International Competition Network. Prior to moving in-house, he was a senior associate at Linklaters’ competition & antitrust team, and was an associate at Clifford Chance’s European competition and regulation group before that. He qualified into the telecoms & regulatory law department at Spanish firm Garrigues. He is a graduate in law and in economics by Comillas-ICADE University in Madrid, and has studied international and EU law at Georgetown University and at King’s College London.

Dr. Matteo Foschi is a Director in Charles River Associates’ European Competition Practice. He specialises in the competition assessment of cases involving multi-sided platforms, technology, and innovative sectors including Artificial Intelligence, content streaming, gaming, digital advertising, online retailing, OTAs, healthcare, and others.

Dr. Foschi is an expert in global merger review and has advised multiple companies in front of the European Commission, the UK CMA, the Australian ACCC, CADE, the Korean FTC, SAMR, as well as a list of other agencies worldwide. In his merger related work, Dr. Foschi held leading roles in high profile cases including Microsoft/Activision, Amazon/Deliveroo, Microsoft/ZeniMax, Taboola/Outbrain, Sabre/Farelogix, and others.

He has also extensive experience in antitrust work including working for Microsoft, Sabre, and other major technology companies worldwide.

Prior to joining CRA, he held a Max Weber Postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute as well a Royal Economic Society fellowship. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Leicester.