John Handoll

John Handoll is the National Practice Head, Competition Law with the Firm, where he also works as Senior Advisor, European and Competition Law.

John is a specialist competition and regulatory lawyer with extensive experience of over 40 years. Since arriving in India in 2012, John has developed expertise in a wide range of Indian competition matters. Bringing his European and international experience to bear, he has worked with Indian lawyer members of the competition team in relation to a number of matters before the Competition Commission of India, the Competition Appellate Tribunal/National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and the Indian courts. This has included working on merger notifications (including multi-jurisdictional filings), antitrust (including cartel investigations and leniency applications), and alleged abuse of dominance. John has also advised a number of Indian and multinational companies on compliance programmes and on preparing for dawn raids.

Over his career, John has worked for a wide range of domestic and international clients in a wide spectrum of economic activity. As well as India, he has worked in a number of European jurisdictions – notably the UK, Belgium and Ireland. In addition to day-to-day practice in a range of national and EU areas, John has also published and lectured widely in the area of EU law. He has also previously acted as non-governmental adviser in the International Competition Network, working in the areas of mergers, cartels and unilateral behaviour.

Widely acclaimed as a top practitioner of European and Competition Law by a number of international media and legal publications, John is also the author of two full length volumes: Capital, Payments and Money Laundering in the European Union (Richmond Law & Tax, 2006) and Free Movement of Persons in the EU (Wiley Chancery, 1995).

John writes in the area of competition law and frequently lectures to professional and student audiences in India.