Overview
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.
Experience
Aoife's Linklaters experience includes advising:
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: advising on the opt-out class action in relation to the Playstation store
- Deutsche Börse: advising on the planned €21bn merger with the London Stock Exchange.
- E.ON: advising on the €43bn asset swap with RWE, involving remedies by the European Commission.
- Quantile: advising on the acquisition by the London Stock Exchange Group (a rare CMA Phase 2 unconditional clearance)
- G4S: advising on its recommended £3.8bn cash offer by Allied Universal and its defence against the hostile £3.68bn cash offer by Garda World Security Corporation
- JD Sports: advising in relation to the CMA’s investigation into the supply of Ranges and Leicester replica football kit, in relation to which JD Sports was a successful leniency applicant
- Advising in relation to a number of UK market studies, including mobile ecosystems, music streaming and infant formula, as well as parallel EU / UK sector reviews into AI
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