Alaric Green
Partner, Antitrust & Competition
Alaric Green is a partner in Willkie's London office. Alaric’s practice covers a wide range of competition law issues, including merger control and transaction-specific matters, cartels, abuse of dominance issues, competition litigation and UK market investigations. Alaric also has considerable experience advising on foreign investment screening processes, the UK National Security and Investment Act, and the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. His role encompasses strategic analysis and advice, and has experience of advising on “phase 1” and “phase 2” reviews, including remedy negotiations and implementation.
Alaric has advised financial sponsors/investors and corporate clients alike on both private and public transactions. He has significant experience coordinating international regulatory processes across all major antitrust jurisdictions. His clients span a wide range of sectors including heavy industry, retail and grocery, consumer/FMCG, e-commerce, financial services and insurance, digital, telecoms, infrastructure and energy. Alaric also has experience advising on EU and UK sector-specific regulation, for example relating to energy and telecoms, and has previously worked in-house at a leading UK telecoms operator.
Willkie’s London Competition team was named a finalist at the Legal Business Awards (2024) for ‘Competition Team of the Year’ and at The Lawyer Awards (2020) for ‘Competition & Regulatory Team of the Year’.
Experience
Alaric’s representative experience includes advising:*
- Acronis AG on the sale of a majority stake in its business to the EQT X fund
- AIG on its acquisition of the renewal rights to the commercial retail insurance businesses of Everest Group
- Aon Corporation on its £10.6 billion acuiqsiiton of NFP
- ARAG SE, part of the Munich Re group, on its acquisition of DAS UK
- A major global asset manager on its investment in and $3 billion strategic partnership with Resolution Life
- Bridge Growth Partners on the sale of its portfolio company, Syniti, to Capgemini
- CapVest Partners and its portfolio company Dental Partners on its acquisition of Rodricks
- CapVest Partners on its acquisition of a majority interest Stada Arzneimittel AG, which valued the business at around €10 billion
- Cérélia SA on its acquisition of the Jus-Rol brand and associated assets
- CMA CGM Group on its public offer for Wincanton plc, and on its strategic acquisition of Freightliner UK Intermodal Logistics
- EMG, a portfolio company of PAI Partners, on its combination with Gravity Media
- Exela Technologies on the spin off and listing (via a SPAC transaction) of its European Business
- Franklin Templeton on various acquisitions, including its $700 million acquisition of Alcentra
- FTV Capital on various investments, including its investment into Orbus Software and its public offer for Windward Ltd.
- Galaxy Universal (a portfolio company of Gainline Capital Partners) on certain brand licensing agreements
- Generali Group on the sale of the renewal rights to its UK Employee Benefits business and long-term strategic partnership with Unum
- Insight Partners on various transactions, including its $5 billion acquisition (alongside Clearlake Capital) of Alteryx; its $2.5 billion sale of Recorded Future; and investments into Accellion, Inc. and Aptean, Inc.
- Resideo Technologies on its $1.4 billion acquisition of Snap One
- Searchlight Capital Partners on its joint public offer to acquire Hyve Group; and its £470 million take private of Gresham House plc
- The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc on the UK antitrust review of its $13 billion merger with Omnicom Group Inc.
- Trive Capital on various strategic investments in UK industry
- Victory Capital on its acquisition of Amundi US and strategic partnership with Amundi
- A large UK financial index in relation to an investigation by the European Commission into potential anticompetitive collusion between its users*
- A UK financial markets trade association on compliance issues*
- A UK high street bank in relation to the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s retail banking market study*
- Ad hoc groups of noteholders in respect of multiple financial restructurings, including the restructurings of Weatherford International plc and Travelex Holdings Limited*
- An internet search engine in relation to various matters, including the investigation by the European Commission into their online search advertising business*
- A telecoms company in relation to the investigation by the European Commission into their enforcement of standard essential patents against Apple, Inc. and related matters*
- Intermediate Capital Group in respect of various investments on the strategic secondaries market*
- Various third parties on their opposition to transactions being reviewed by antitrust authorities globally, including representing Vodafone in its opposition to the merger between the UK telecommunications businesses of Hutchison and Three UK*
* Alaric advised on these matters prior to joining Willkie.