Gabriela da Costa is a London-based partner in K&L Gates’ antitrust, competition & trade regulation practice group. She has led the design, implementation, execution, enforcement, and defense (in investigations and the courts) of high-profile go-to-market strategies for major consumer and B2B brands in Europe and the UK. She advises product manufacturers across a range of sectors on complex competition law questions relating to the sale of their products, including selective distribution, pricing policies, online marketplace restrictions, direct-to-consumer sales strategies, customer-competitor dealings, market communications, partner terminations, and related interactions with intellectual property and data protection laws. In the transactional context, Gabriela Da Costa is a principal member of K&L Gates’ international foreign investment screening team, coordinating major multi-jurisdictional assessments and handling national clearances, including under the UK’s National Security and Investment Act.
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This article has been nominated for the 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. On 24 July 2018, in four separate decisions, the European Commission (“Commission”) levied fines totalling EUR 111 million on four well-known manufacturers of (...)
