Philip Monaghan

Philip is the head of the firm’s Asia Antitrust and Competition Practice, and a former senior competition regulator who, in private practice, advises Asia-based and multinational clients on competition issues arising under antitrust laws globally. Philip has guided clients through compliance, cartel, abuse of market power, and multi-jurisdictional merger control matters, as well as the investigation and prosecution of antitrust and competition offenses or contraventions in Mainland China, Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia.

From 2014 to 2017, Philip served as the first Executive Director (General Counsel) of the Hong Kong Competition Commission. In that capacity, Philip wrote, co-wrote, or provided legal sign off for all of the HKCC’s guidelines and policy documents, advised on all operational matters including the opening and escalation of investigations arising from complaints to the HKCC under the Hong Kong Competition Ordinance.