For more than 20 years, ECLA has been advising investment banks, commercial banks and hedge funds on regulatory arbitrage.  ECLA furnishes analysis on pending antitrust legislation and investigations (cartels, abuse of dominance); merger reviews; as well as data privacy regulations and investigations.   ECLA’s geographic reach extends from the EU, to the US, and China.

ECLA is unique in the market for the breadth of the services it provides to financial institutions. Its scope of work extends from one-on-one telephone consultations to investor in-person events and teleseminars, and the preparation of in-depth research on particular legal issues and cases. 

ECLA’s range of sectoral experience is shown in this illustrative list of past arbitrages:  DOJ/Google (search); FTC/Amazon; EU Chinese EV anti-subsidy investigation; Adobe/Figma; Amazon/iRobot; Illumina/Grail; FTC/Google; Broadcom/VM Ware; Microsoft/Activision; the EU Digital Markets Act; Aon/Willis Towers; Facebook/Schrems; Alstom/Bombardier; Google/Fitbit; LSE/Refinitiv; Facebook Germany EU antitrust and GDPR issues; Nvidia/Mellanox; Takeaway.com/Delivery Hero; Vodafone/Unitymedia; Vodafone/Liberty Global EU consolidation; Apple/Shezam; United Technologies/Rockwell Collins, Praxair/Linde, Abbott/Alere, NXPI/Qualcomm, Microsoft/LinkedIn, Dow/DuPont, ChemChina/Syngenta, Midea/Kuka, Deutsche Borse/LSE, 3/O2, 3/Wind, Vodafone/Liberty Global (Netherlands JV), the Google Shopping and Android investigations, Staples/Office Depot, Fedex/TNT, Halliburton/Baker Hughes, Autogrill/World Duty Free, Telenet/Base, Arris/Pace, GE/Alstom, Ball/Rexam, Oracle/Sun, TomTom/TeleAtlas, Nokia/Navteq, Google/Motorola, Deutsche Borse/NYSE and UPS/TNT.