Latham Wins Top Prize at 2025 GCR Awards for Historic Illumina/GRAIL Matter
Global elite Antitrust & Competition Practice wins three team awards and earns an additional nine finalist nods.
Simon Pritchard advises clients on their highest stakes UK, EU, and international competition law matters.
He draws upon more than 25 years’ experience, having served in government on the Office of Fair Trading’s Senior Executive Team and as the UK’s first Senior Director of Mergers, and in private practice in Brussels, London, and Washington, D.C.
Simon now guides market-leading companies on:
A recognized thought leader, he has regularly acted as a competition expert to various UK Parliamentary and Whitehall committees, and served as nongovernmental adviser to the Office of Fair Trading and the US Federal Trade Commission. Having helped shape certain foundational aspects of modern UK merger enforcement, he also remains an active participant in periodic efforts to adapt and improve competition policy and procedure in the UK.
Simon’s experience includes advising:
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham
Global elite Antitrust & Competition Practice wins three team awards and earns an additional nine finalist nods.
In the leading competition publication’s annual review of the strongest antitrust practices around the globe, the firm dominated in every category, ranking second across all specialties.
Latham earned a top three ranking in every antitrust category, including merger control, cartel, non-cartel, and private litigation.