Verity Egerton-Doyle

Verity is a partner in Linklaters’ London Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group and co-head of the UK technology sector team and Global Co-head of gaming.

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. 

Verity is recognised as a leading commentator on competition and regulatory issues in the tech sector and on forthcoming platform regulation regimes.

Work Highlights

Verity’s recent experience includes:

• Viasat on its acquisition on UK merger control aspects of its acquisition of Inmarsat, cleared unconditionally by the CMA in Phase 2
• Sony Interactive Entertainment on the opt-out class action in relation to the PlayStation store

• 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

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.

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.

Verity writes and speaks regularly on a range of topics. She has authored and co-authored multiple publications and articles, including:

• Verity Egerton-Doyle, “Appeals of DMU decisions: is a higher appeals standard only good for Big Tech?” TechUK, October 2023
• Nicole Kar, Verity Egerton-Doyle & Agostino Bignardi, “Tackling global inflation is a challenge for antitrust agencies” Law360, July 2023
• Nicole Kar, James Hennah, Helen Crossley & Verity Egerton-Doyle, “CAT-led law: what does the exponential growth of private enforcement mean for public enforcement?” Competition Appeal Tribunal Conference, May 2023
• Sir Jonathan Jones KC (Hon) & Verity Egerton-Doyle, “The new Digital Markets Unit: what test should apply to appeals against its decisions?” Competition Law Insight, March 2023

• Verity Egerton-Doyle & Jonathan Ford, “Algorithms, Big Data and Mergers” Algorithmic Antitrust, January 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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