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Siobhan has practised EU competition, trade and regulatory law and policy for over fifteen years, based in Brussels. She is an Advocaat with the Brussels Bar, a Solicitor in Scotland, and England and Wales, and holds a Masters in EU business law from the University of Amsterdam.
She has excellent practical working knowledge and hands on experience with EU Commission processes and procedures, particularly in competition investigations with DG Competition. She has counselled numerous players throughout her career on a range of competition issues including: complex cartel infringement assessments, leniency applications, and defence representation; detailed vertical, horizontal, tech transfer and IP agreement analysis and support; and significant involvement in both abuse of dominance infringement defences, and complaint representation. Her practice focuses on tech, automotive/EV, retail/consumer and clean energy industries.
Siobhan advises on the full range of EU trade defence instruments. Being based in Brussels, she has wide experience supporting clients’ interests in relevant files going through the EU legislative process in the EU institutions. She also specialises in different aspects of tech and sustainability regulation, including net neutrality, DSA, DMA, autotech, CBAM, EUDR, EUBR and DPPs, and green washing. Siobhan sits on the Law Society of Scotland’s Council and is Convener of its International Committee.
Siobhan is used to working across multiple jurisdictions, and she practised as an international competition lawyer in Asia for two years earlier in her career. She has also recently spent two separate long-term secondments as senior, and lead, global in-house competition counsel at different multi-national companies.
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Siobhan has practised EU competition, trade and regulatory law for over fifteen years based in Brussels, Belgium. She is an Advocaat with the Brussels Bar, a Solicitor in Scotland, and England and Wales, and holds a Masters in EU business law from the University of Amsterdam.
Siobhan routinely advises on a range of EU sustainability regulatory matters including EVs: EV regulation, competition compliance, merger control, subsidy control, and CO2 pooling in addition to EU Batteries Regulation, Digital Product Passports, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and the EU Deforestation Regulation among others.
Siobhan spent over a year working as a full time seconded in-house counsel at a global Energy Company. Her day-to-day work involved providing global support on a range of EV and sustainable energy projects, with a need to guide and educate the business from a legal perspective at the same time as making live commercial risk judgments and material business decisions together.
