Tax issues on stake sales and investment into managers: structuring, pitfalls and steps to take now
About
Fiona is a Senior Counsel in the antitrust/competition group and advises a wide range of clients on the application of competition law, public procurement and subsidy control.
She advises on competition law and related regulatory issues including, in particular, on CMA investigations, horizontal agreements, co-operative JVs and vertical agreements. Fiona also advises on issues relating to abuse of dominance in standalone competition litigation claims and on the application of competition law to sustainability initiatives.
Fiona also has considerable experience of public procurement and subsidy control issues, advising both public bodies and private sector clients on a wide range of matters. Fiona’s experience includes successfully defending a client from a multi-million pound damages claim for breach of the public procurement rules. She also regularly advises on the application of the procurement rules in the context of land development agreements.
She spent time on secondment in the media sector and as an in-house lawyer in the financial services industry.
Experience
- Advising the BBC on navigating the CMA’s freelance labour investigations with one investigation being successfully settled and the other dismissed.
- Advising Bloor Homes on the CMA’s investigation into suspected exchanges of competitively sensitive information in the house building sector which was closed by way of Commitments
- Advising Genius Sports in its high-profile dispute against competitor Sportradar which involved complex mix of competition, breach of confidence, trespass and conspiracy to injure by unlawful means claims.
- Advising Perse Technology in connection with the first successful application for an interim injunction before the Competition Appeal Tribunal
- Advising a range of public sector bodies and private sector bidders at both a strategic and practical level on the application of the public procurement rules to particular projects. This includes advising on issues relating to land agreements, material changes in scope, advertising requirements, technical specifications, exclusion of bidders and remedies for breach of the rules.
- Successfully defending the interests of a winning bidder in a procurement when the previous incumbent supplier challenged the procurement process resulting in an automatic stay preventing the contracting authority awarding the contract to our client. Together with the contracting authority, we were successful in convincing the court to allow the contract to proceed.