Ben Isaacs
Lawyers
Associate in our Antitrust & Competition practice, based in Brussels.
Ben advises on a wide range of EU, UK, and international competition law matters. His practice focuses on significant and complex merger control, abuse of dominance investigations, anticompetitive agreement investigations, foreign direct investment, and distribution and licensing agreements. His practice spans industry sectors, with a particular focus on technology, financial services, manufacturing, and entertainment.
Experience
- $100 million investment by consortium in Airbus subsidiary AALTO
- Arcadium Lithium $6.7 billion acquisition by Rio Tinto
- ATSG $3.1 billion acquisition by Stonepeak
- Crane NXT’s acquisition of OpSec
- Ferrero Group acquisition of Power Crunch
- GHK Capital Partners acquisition of Horizon Freight Holdings
- One Equity Partner’s portfolio company Associated Spring’s acquisition of AH Metal Solutions A/S
- One Equity Partners majority investment in Comau
- One Equity Partners acquisition of EthosEnergy
- One Equity Partner’s portfolio company Associated Spring’s acquisition of E. Winkemann
- Prosus $1.7 billion acquisition of Despegar.com
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Education
M.A., European Competition Law, King's College London
Graduate Diploma, European Competition Law, King's College London
Master, Law and Economics, Université Toulouse Capitole
LL.B., University of Otago
B.Sc., Economics, University of Otago
Prior experience
- Latham & Watkins (Brussels), 2019-2020 and 2021-2023
- Russell McVeagh (Wellington), 2020
- Deloitte (Wellington), 2016-2018
Qualifications and admissions
- Brussels B-List
- England and Wales
- High Court of New Zealand