Scott Pettifor
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Antitrust & International Competition
- Antitrust Mergers & Acquisitions
- EU/UK Competition
- Antitrust Policy & Regulation
- National Security
- Energy Antitrust
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Antitrust Litigation
- Technology
- Fintech
- Sovereign and Government Investors
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Private Equity Transactions
- Global Investment Review
- Hedge Funds
- Investment Management & Private Equity
- Scott is one of the accomplished lawyers who was promoted to the partnership, effective January 1, 2022. Watch the video to meet Scott here.
- Practice focuses on merger control, antitrust issues and regulation in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including cross-border transactions, restructurings, joint ventures and strategic alliances.
- Acts for a number of the world’s largest financial institutions.
- Represents acquirers, investors and targets across sectors on cross-border national security and foreign investment investigations.
Scott Pettifor maintains a practice focused on advising clients, including major financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds and large corporations, on international (ex-U.S.) transactional antitrust matters (at an EU, U.K. and multijurisdictional level), behavioural antitrust issues, foreign investment matters (including under the UK NSI regime) and the application of sectoral regulations. Scott’s understanding of the merger control and foreign investment landscape is significant and affords him the ability to provide succinct, actionable advice, with clients having praised his “out-of-the-box thinking” to the increasingly complex antitrust and foreign investment issues that they are facing in the context of their cross-border transactions, restructurings, JV and strategic alliances. He provides multijurisdictional advice on large global transactions for merging parties as well as for the financial institutions with related exposure and third party complainants.
Scott regularly obtains merger control approvals for clients before the European Commission and U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and routinely coordinates large, complex, multijurisdictional antitrust and foreign investment reviews (involving filings across the globe). He acted for a client on one of the first transactions to be approved by the CMA under the revised de minimis regime and in 2022, guided a client through the process of obtaining one of the first retrospective approvals handed down by the UK Government under the UK NSI regime.
His work spans a broad spectrum of industry sectors, including:
- Technology
- Food and retail
- Investments
- Pharmaceutical
- Aviation
- Energy services and infrastructure
- Media
- Insurance
Energy
- Advised BC Energy Investments on the formation of the largest privately owned integrated energy company in Argentina through the combination of BC Energy Investments’ and BP’s interests in Pan American Energy, Argentina’s second largest producer of oil and gas, and BC Energy Investments’ interest in refiner and marketer Axion Energy.
- Represented VPI Holdings, an affiliate of energy and commodities trader Vitol S.A., in connection with the company’s acquisition from Drax Group plc of four combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants in the UK.
- Represented Macquarie and Siemens in the creation of Calibrant JV, which originates, operates and finances Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) projects.
- Acted on behalf of noteholders in the restructuring of Pacific Drilling S.A.
EducationL.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2010
LL.M., School of Law, King's College London, 2009
LL.B., School of Law, King's College London, 2008
L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2010
LL.M., School of Law, King's College London, 2009
LL.B., School of Law, King's College London, 2008
Bar AdmissionsIreland
Solicitor, England and Wales
Ireland
Solicitor, England and Wales
- “How The UK Smart Regulatory Strategy Fuels Al Innovation,” Law360, December 12, 2023.
- Who’s Who Legal: Competition Future Leader, 2023.
- The Legal 500 UK, Next Generation Partner: EU & Competition, 2023-2024, Rising Star: EU & Competition, 2020-2022, EU & Competition, 2017-2024.