David Trapp
David joined Simmons & Simmons in 2020 having trained and spent seven years qualified in the competition team of Freshfields in London.
David advises clients across all aspects of contentious and non-contentious EU and UK antitrust and competition law as well as national security and foreign investment regulation. His merger control work has included high profile UK and global transactions where he has managed the regulatory approval processes within the UK, the EU, and around the globe. His contentious work includes acting for clients subject to the European Commission interchange fee investigations as well as Competition and Markets Authority pharmaceutical probes.
David has experience of working within a broad range of industry sectors including financial services, retail and various consumer goods, technology media & telecommunications, energy and infrastructure.
David was called to the Bar of Lincoln’s Inn in 2008. In 2016 / 2017 David spent seven months on secondment to the CMA where he was part of the policy team, and in 2021/22 he spent seven months on secondment in the competition team of a multinational universal bank.