Mark Hills

Clients value Mark’s depth of expertise in the financial services sector. Before joining Mayer Brown, he spent several years working in-house at a leading European bank where he undertook a 'root and branch' review of the bank's antitrust compliance framework and risk assessment process. In addition to being the bank’s legal adviser on antitrust law matters, he had day-to-day responsibility for overseeing its antitrust compliance and training programme.

Mark also spent time working in the CMA’s Mergers Unit with day-to-day responsibility for running a number of complex and high-profile UK merger investigations.

• Advising a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in connection with the CMA’s investigation into alleged excessive and unfair pricing of a generic medicine and a related anticompetitive agreement.*
• Advised a UK listed betting and gaming operator on the CMA’s phase 2 merger investigation regarding its merger with a key competitor and the related divestment of licensed betting offices to secure conditional clearance.*

* Experience prior to joining Mayer Brown.