Tim Blanchard

Tim is a partner in Slaughter and May's Competition and Disputes & Investigations groups, and is Head of the firm's Consumer Protection practice. He has extensive experience advising clients on competition, consumer protection, bribery and corruption, and regulatory investigations, and related compliance and risk management work. He regularly acts on high-profile competition litigation matters, including damages actions before the High Court, collective proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and regulatory appeals.

 

Tim's investigations and contentious regulatory practice spans a wide range of authorities, including the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the European Commission (EC), the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the Serious Fraud Office, Ofgem, Ofwat and other sectoral regulators. His recent competition investigations experience includes advising Google on EC investigations, Barratt Redrow on the CMA’s housebuilders investigation, and ITV and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners on CMA and EC investigations. Tim’s consumer protection experience includes advising Barratt Redrow on its successful defence against a CMA consumer protection investigation, as well as advising clients on price transparency, fake reviews, online choice architecture, subscription practices and green claims related issues. His recent litigation experience includes acting for JPMorgan in the Forex proceedings, advising on major class actions in the motor finance (Santander), water (United Utilities) and housebuilding (Barratt Redrow) sectors, and representing Northern Powergrid in two successful regulatory appeals.

 

Tim is recognised as a leading individual by Lexology Index and Next Generation Partner for Competition Litigation by Legal 500. Directories describe him as having “tremendous ability” in the competition litigation space and as “a terrific pick to run a competition law dispute”.