Ricardo Zimbrón’s practice focuses on EU and UK competition law, including merger control, anticompetitive agreements, and abuse of dominance. He brings a unique blend of experience from both the public and private sectors, having managed several international mergers and antitrust investigations. In the public sector, from 2021 to 2024, he was Director of Mergers at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where he managed Phase 1 and Phase 2 investigations, coordinated with international agencies, engaged in remedies discussions, and helped to develop UK merger control policy. Before this, from 2020 to 2021, he served in a similar role as Assistant Director of Mergers. In the private sector, he has represented clients before the European Commission, the CMA (and its predecessors, the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission); has worked with local counsel appearing before administrative agencies outside of the EU and UK; and has represented clients in litigation before the European Courts in Luxembourg and the UK High Court.