UK: Debevoise names new competition partner

Debevoise & Plimpton announced that Cécile Beurrier, Christopher Boyne, Jane Engelhardt, Eric T. Juergens, Arian M. June, Timothy McIver and Franklin L. Mitchell will become partners of the firm effective July 1, 2019. Of the new patterns Timothy McIver is a specialist in antitrust law.

Timothy McIver, based in the firm’s London office, has over 15 years of experience advising on all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including obtaining clearance for complex merger investigations before the European Commission and UK competition authorities and coordinating merger approvals across multiple jurisdictions worldwide. On the contentious side, he has broad experience advising on behavioral matters in particular EU and UK investigations of alleged abuses of dominance, market investigations and studies as well as representing clients before various UK sectoral regulators. Much of his work is international in nature and involves counseling clients on their global antitrust strategy. Mr. McIver graduated in 1998 with a double first-class honors degree from Trinity Hall, Cambridge (appointed Bateman scholar).