Allen & Overy (A&O) has hired Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson London partner Alasdair Balfour for its competition and antitrust group.

Balfour, who joins A&O’s City office today (1 May), advises multinational clients on UK and EU antitrust matters, with a particular focus on cross-border merger control, cartel work and other antitrust infringements and merger investigations.