Christon Shenolikar

Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Speaker

Christon is a senior associate in the Herbert Smith Freehills Competition, Regulation and Trade team. His expertise covers the full range of EU and UK competition law with a particular focus on merger control and competition litigation. He has advised clients on some of the most complex and high profile competition matters in a wide range of sectors.

Christon's experience includes advising clients on key strategic transactions, regulatory investigations and general compliance advice. In particular, he has advised on a number of Phase 2 merger investigations before the European Commission and the CMA. He also has extensive experience in competition litigation across Europe, including advising on claims issued in the High Court of England & Wales and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.

In 2021/2022, Christon was seconded to the CMA where he worked in their Mergers team.

Christon has been recognised as a Future Leader by Global Competition Review and by Who’s Who Legal: Competition each year from 2019 to 2024.He is also an editor of the Competition Law Journal published by Edward Elgar.