Overview
Anna is a Partner in our Global Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group, based in London. She has almost two decades of experience advising clients on a range of complex competition and FDI matters, with particular experience in the mining, defence, technology, and private capital sectors, and in UK public M&A deals.
Between 2013-2016, Anna was based in our Hong Kong office, specialising in advising domestic and international clients on compliance with emerging competition regimes in the region and on Chinese merger control. Whilst there, Anna worked on several complex Chinese merger control filings and on advising Asia-based clients on investments in Europe.
She is well recognised in the market and recent awards include being named as a “Distinguished Advisor” in Financier Worldwide Power Powers for Merger Control 2025, recognised in Global Competition Review‘s Women in Antitrust Awards for 2025, in the Global Competition Review "40 under 40" 2023 for Foreign Investment Control, and as a "Shining Star" in Antitrust 2023 by W@Competition.
Experience
Highlights of matters Anna has worked on include advising:
- Carrier Global Corporation on its $13 billion acquisition of Viessmann Climate Solutions – a deal which involved several complex merger control and FDI filings
- Carrier Global Corporation on several other deals, including the sale of its access solutions, security, industrial fire, residential & commercial fire, commercial refrigeration, and Italian HVAC businesses, in transactions spanning more than $20 billion in deal value. The commercial refrigeration deal involved the first Phase 1 clearance for a Chinese acquirer under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regime
Just Eat plc on its merger with Takeaway.com to create the world’s largest food ordering platform.
- Just Eat plc on its acquisition of rival UK food ordering marketplace Hungryhouse – a complex Phase II CMA investigation that was cleared without remedies. The deal won the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers’ Award for the innovative competition law arguments and economic theories used to secure the unconditional clearance
- Takeda on its $62 billion acquisition of Shire plc – the largest ever international M&A transaction undertaken by a Japanese company at the time
- Caesars Entertainment Inc. on its acquisition of William Hill plc, and the related sale of the William Hill international and online business to 888
- Pennon Group plc on its completed acquisition of Bristol Water plc
- AviAlliance on its acquisition of AGS Airports, the operator of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports and on-sale of a stake to Blackstone
- Hg and team.blue on their acquisitions of Loopia, Combell, Dada and TransIP
- KPMG on the CMA’s market study into the statutory audit market
Amec Foster Wheeler on its £2.3bn takeover by John Wood Group.
- An industry player on the CMA’s funerals market investigation
- A respondent in the first dawn raid to be undertaken by the Hong Kong Competition Commission
Anglo American on its joint venture with Lafarge and on the market investigation by the Competition Commission into the aggregates, asphalt and ready-mix concrete markets
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