Antitrust & Foreign Investment Counsel, UK Co-Head of Technology Sector, London
"I advise clients on their most complex antitrust issues, from global merger control to investigations into anticompetitive conduct. My experience spans all sectors, including retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, energy, and mining. I aim to give clear and solutions driven advice that is calibrated to clients’ commercial objectives."
Overview
Professional experience
Education and qualifications
Published works
Overview
Verity is a counsel in Linklaters’ London Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group and co-head of the UK technology sector team.
Verity has over a decade of experience across advisory, investigatory and transactional aspects of competition law in the EU and the UK, including on vertical and abuse of dominance issues. She is particularly familiar with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, having spent time on secondment to the CMA’s mergers group, during which she sat on the CMA’s Mergers Intelligence Committee.
Work Highlights
Verity’s recent experience includes:
Covestro on its acquisition of DSM’s sustainable coating resins business
an online retail platform on a global cartel investigation, following dawn raids by the European Commission
Intas / Accord Healthcare on the CMA’s investigation into alleged excessive pricing of hydrocortisone tablets and subsequent appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal
QIAGEN on its proposed merger with Thermo Fisher Scientific
Sainsbury’s on its proposed merger with ASDA
a major generic pharmaceutical company on multiple CMA investigations into alleged anticompetitive practices and abuse of dominance
Professional experience
Verity is an active participant in the firm’s Social Impact programme, as a member of the London Social Impact Committee and regular volunteer with various initiatives including the Mary Ward Legal Centre and The Access Project.
Education and qualifications
Verity holds a MA in European Competition Law from Kings College London, for which she was awarded the prize for best dissertation. She has undergraduate degrees in Economics and Law, from the University of Queensland in Australia, for which she was awarded the Law Medal for Most Outstanding Graduate.
Published works
Verity writes and speaks regularly on a range of topics. She has authored and co-authored multiple publications and articles, including:
Verity Egerton-Doyle & Jonathan Ford, “Algorithms, Big Data and Mergers” Algorithmic Antitrust, January 2022
Christian Ahlborn & Verity Egerton-Doyle, “The competition watchdog’s new Digital Markets Unit is a step in the right direction, but it needs more powers” The I, April 2021
Christian Ahlborn, Xavier Boutin, Verity Egerton-Doyle and Nayantara Ravichandran, “Conditional Rebates under EU Competition Law: A Retrospective on Michelin I, Michelin II and BA/Virgin” Ex Post Evaluation of Competition Cases, October 2021
Simon Pritchard & Verity Egerton-Doyle, “Stretch target: the long am of UK merger jurisdiction” Competition Law Journal, October 2020
ABA Antitrust Handbook: Information Exchange, 2018
Nicole Kar, Emma Cochrane & Verity Doyle “A possible parting of the ways? Will Brexit mean doctrinal divergence between EU and UK competition law?” Competition Law Insight, July 2016
