Ian Giles

Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright

Speaker

Ian Giles is an antitrust, competition and regulatory lawyer working from our London and Brussels offices. He focuses in advising on all aspects of competition law with a particular focus on competition and cartel investigations and merger control.

Ian has been involved in a number of significant cases in recent years, including: acting on global merger control clearances for GFG Alliance on the acquisition of the aluminium rolling divestment business in the US$2.2bn Novelis/Aleris; BP on numerous acquisitions, including the US$1bn acquisition of Statoil's aviation fuels business and Delta Air Lines in securing competition and regulatory clearances before the European Commission, UK CAA, and other global regulators. Ian has also advised on market investigations in banking, energy and audit sectors; OFT’s tobacco and dairy investigations and cartel investigations in aviation, shipping and freight-forwarding.

Ian worked in a senior role as a competition enforcer at the UK Office of Fair Trading in 2008-9, and the insights he gained from this time are particularly valuable in his work. He is a frequent speaker and media commentator on competition issues, and author of various competition law academic works. Ian is also a leading member of the UK ICC Competition Group and the City of London Law Society Competition Group.

Ian is ranked as a Leading Individual in Chambers, The Legal 500, and Who's Who Legal, with Chambers describing him as "a great lawyer, someone who's very responsive, practical and thoughtful. He's very focused on trying to find solutions." He is also recognized for his "excellent legal skills" and "creative thinking", as well as being "extremely responsive", and having an "astute and methodical approach".