“We are honoured to be recognised among the world’s top competition economics practices. This listing comes on the back of a very successful few years for our practice, which saw us expanding KPMG’s competition economics presence in Europe as well as bolstering our UK practice with senior hires from the UK competition authorities,” said Global Head of Economics at KPMG, Dr Nicola Mazzarotto. “GCR has recognised the diverse and interesting work we are doing for clients across the competition space, and we are grateful to our clients who trust us to advise them through such critical regulatory junctures for their businesses.”

GCR noted:

• “KPMG further bolstered its stable of antitrust specialists with the acquisition of MAPP in 2018, and now operates from in the UK, Spain, France and Belgium.”

• Our “impressive list of Who’s Who Legal: competition nominees”, including Dr Nicola Mazzarotto, David Spector, Carlos Pascual and Caitlin Wilkinson, the latter recently promoted to partner in the London office.

• Our work providing the European Commission with financial and economic advice and analysis in monitoring the Google Shopping remedy, “one of KPMG’s most fascinating mandates”.

• Our advice to clients in responding to investigations from a range of regulators in the UK including the Competition and Markets Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator.

• Our work in France advising on retail acquisitions by Groupe Bernard Hayot, cleared by the French Competition Authority with behavioural remedies, and Dr Oetker’s merger with Alsa, cleared with structural remedies.

• Our Spanish practice’s work advising Philip Morris, SGAE, Atos and a provider of infrastructure construction services as they face antitrust investigations by Spain’s National Commission of Markets and Competition.

About KPMG in the UK

KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, operates from 22 offices across the UK with approximately 17,600 partners and staff. The UK firm recorded a revenue of £2.40 billion in the year ended 30 September 2019. KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. It operates in 154 countries and has 200,000 professionals working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative ("KPMG International"), a Swiss entity. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such.