Overview
Natura has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on EU and UK competition law. She heads the Linklaters UK antitrust team as well as the Linklaters State aid and subsidies practice.
She advises on a wide range of competition matters, including complex global mergers involving filings under merger control and foreign investment regimes in multiple jurisdictions. She deals with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission regularly in the context of antitrust investigations and merger notifications (including negotiating conditions for such mergers). In addition to advising on mainstream competition mandates, she specialises in EU State aid and UK subsidies, having advised on a number of State aid cases, including during COVID, and having represented clients before the EU courts on those matters. Her practice includes advising on public procurement and UK price controls for water and energy as well as other sector regulation issues, including compliance with the EU energy unbundling rules.
Experience
- Barratt Developments plc on the UK merger control aspects of its c.£2,5bn acquisition of Redrow, cleared in Phase 1 by the CMA with commitments
- Tate & Lyle on merger control filings arising from its £2.7bn recommended cash offer by Ingredion Incorporated
- E.ON on its acquisition of OVO Energy, cleared in Phase 1 unconditionally by the CMA
- Bharti Global on merger control and foreign investment filings, including NSIA, arising from its acquisition of a minority stake in BT Group plc
- Brookfield on the merger control and foreign investment filings associated with its £2.2bn acquisition of Network International Holdings Plc
- National Grid on merger control, regulatory and NSIA filings for the sale of its gas transmission business to a consortium led by Macquarie Asset Management
- Industry players on the CMA’s market studies into infant formula and civil engineering
- in relation to price controls in water, gas and electricity distribution, including references and appeals of such decisions to the CMA for Northern Gas Networks (GD2 and GD3) and Northumbrian Water (PR19)
- Thames Water on the State aid, regulatory and public procurement aspects of the Tideway project
- the UK Government on subsidy, procurement and merger control aspects of the development of the £38bn Sizewell C new nuclear plant
- on State aid investigations by the European Commission for State support during Covid-19, to energy projects and to financial institutions during the global financial crisis
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