Ireland, UK (England & Wales)
Aoife graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge in 2012 with a BA in Law. Aoife also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Competition Law from Kings College, London.
Aoife is a Counsel in the Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group at Linklaters LLP. She has over 10 years’ experience across all aspects of antitrust matters, including complex global merger control, abuse of dominance, market investigations, litigation (including opt out class actions) and compliance; in sectors including tech, financial infrastructure, energy, retail and music industries. Her practice has also focussed on the intersection of antitrust law and climate and sustainability co-operation. Aoife undertook a nine-month secondment to the Competition and Markets Authority's Legal Service working on a broad range of matters (including the Digital Markets Unit), and has spent substantial time in a number of Linklaters’ European offices (particularly Dusseldorf and Dublin).
Aoife undertook a full time competition law secondment to the group legal team at BP plc from September 2014 to March 2015 and otherwise has previous experience as a trainee solicitor in Corporate and Dispute Resolution from March 2014 to March 2016, being seconded to Linklaters' Hong Kong office from September 2015 to March 2016.
She is part of the Innovation and Efficiency Initiative within Linklaters’ Global Antitrust Practice, aiming to constantly improve the services we can offer, whether by creating new innovative legal tech solutions or by driving efficiency in everything we do.
Aoife's Linklaters experience includes advising:
Aoife joined Linklaters in 2014 as a trainee solicitor, spending time in the competition/antitrust, dispute resolution, and corporate practices. In 2020 she was promoted to Managing Associate, and in 2025 promoted to Counsel. Aoife has spent time in the Linklaters’ Beijing, Hong Kong and Düsseldorf offices, as well as with the competition team at Allens Linklaters in Sydney.
Aoife spent six months seconded to the Legal Service of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) from November 2019 to July 2020 and in 2014 to 2015 Aoife, as a trainee solicitor, undertook a six-month in-house secondment to BP’s Competition legal team in London.
Aoife has contributed to a number of articles with co-workers, including
"Blockchain Collaborations: Analysing the potential antitrust implications", Competition Law Insight, 13 May, 2020; and
“Let’s cut to the Race: Antitrust and Sustainability Initiatives”, Linklaters Linking Competition Blog, 20 December 2022.
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