Overview
Rachel is a partner in our Global Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group based in London.
In addition to her merger control practice, Rachel regularly advises on antitrust investigations and compliance, as well as subsidies and utilities regulation. She has particular expertise in energy, utilities and natural resources as well as in financial services and healthcare.
Currently based in London, Rachel has also worked in our Brussels team as well as in-house.
She has been recognised as a leading lawyer by MergerLinks and a rising star by GCR.
Work Highlights
Recent highlights include advising:
- Anglian Water on its PR24 price control and Scotia Gas Networks on its GD3 price control, having previously advised both on successful CMA appeals in PR19 and GD2
- A global bank on an ongoing CMA investigation into suspected anti-competitive conduct
- A vehicle manufacturer in parallel EC and CMA investigations into suspected anti-competitive conduct
- Emirates technology and investment group, e& on its $400m majority acquisition in Careem’s ride-hailer Super App and $420m majority acquisition, with ADQ in StarzPlay Arabia
- WSP on its $1.9bn acquisition of John Wood Group plc’s Environment and Infrastructure business and £591m takeover bid for RPS plc;
- A Towerbrook and Warburg Pincus consortium on its takeover of the AA plc
- ION on its £1.9bn public takeover of Fidessa and acquisitions of Dealogic, OpenLink and Acuris
- UBM on its £4bn public takeover by Informa
- Rail Deliver Group on competition and regulatory compliance
- Glencore on a wide variety of transactions and competition law compliance matters since 2011, including its $29bn acquisition of Xstrata
- Centrica and RBS in complex retail market investigations by the CMA
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