Tom Smith

Tom is a partner at Geradin Partners, a boutique law firm in London and Brussels that focuses on competition law and digital regulation. He was previously Legal Director at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).  Tom led the legal team on the Digital Markets Taskforce, set up by the UK Government to advise it on the new regulatory regime for ‘digital gatekeepers’ such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.  He also directed the CMA’s influential digital advertising market study, the CMA’s work on setting up the Digital Markets Unit, its antitrust enforcement cases in the tech sector, and the implementation of the UK’s Open Banking regulations.

Tom advises a range of broadcasters, news publishers, app developers, tech companies, e-commerce sellers and other companies on competition law and digital regulation issues. He testified to the House of Commons public bill committee on the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, which is currently going through Parliament. He writes regularly for the Platform Law Blog.