Kate is a partner in the EU, Competition and Regulatory Law Group. Prior to joining Matheson, Kate worked at a Magic Circle law firm in London. Kate’s EU competition practice spans the areas of merger control, behavioural competition issues (including abuse of dominance, cartels and other restrictive arrangements), State aid, sectoral regulation and public procurement. As part of Kate’s regulatory practice, she advises clients on compliance with telecommunications, broadcasting and postal regulation as well as representing life sciences companies on regulatory and pricing matters arising during the life cycle of medicinal products. Kate’s clients are leaders across a broad range of industries and Kate has particular expertise in the communications, Life Sciences and financial services sectors. Kate has advised on numerous notable regulatory processes and court cases. With her extensive experience of regulators and courts at Irish and EU level, clients turn to Kate for expert advice on defending their interests and for practical solutions which achieve their commercial objectives. Kate contributes articles to leading international legal publications and speaks regularly on EU law issues including as a lecturer on Law Society courses.
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The European Commission has adopted revised Guidelines on Regional State Aid which will enter into force on 1 January 2022. The revised Guidelines bring about good and bad news for Irish granting authorities and prospective Regional Aid recipients. In particular, while permissible aid (...)
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Irish subsidiary companies should be aware that they may be ordered to pay fines or compensation as a result of a parent company breaching competition law, and corporate groups should take this risk into account in the design of intra-group operations and competition law compliance programmes. (...)
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The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has recently delivered two judgements which provide an important message for telecoms businesses operating in Ireland. The first of these rulings confirms that the risk of non-compliance with competition rules is particularly high for telcos in that they may (...)
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Newly Formed Responsible Government Department We have recently seen completion of the transfer of responsibility for broadcasting regulation from the former Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment to the newly formed Department of Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sports and (...)
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Key takeaways On 27 January 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. v European Commission (GS judgment) which confirms that PE sponsors can be held financially liable for competition law infringements committed by indirectly (...)
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On 25 March 2020, in light of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (“CCPC”) published the Joint statement by the European Competition Network (“ECN”) on the application of competition law during the Corona crisis (ECN Joint Statement) on its (...)
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In light of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (“CCPC”) announced on 18 March 2020 temporary measures to assist it in complying with binding statutory deadlines and to ensure business continuity in the review of notified mergers and (...)
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In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (“CCPC”) announced on 18 March 2020 temporary measures to assist it in complying with binding statutory deadlines and to ensure business continuity in the review of notified mergers and (...)
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On 2 November 2018, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally concluded that ComparetheMarket (a UK comparison website offering price comparisons of insurance products and utilities) had breached competition law as a result of its use of ‘most-favoured nation’ clauses (MFNs). (...)
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On 18 October, the Houses of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament) approved legislation (SI No 388/2018) increasing substantially the financial thresholds at and above which mandatory notification of a transaction is required to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in (...)
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The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphries, laid the Competition Act 2002 (Section 27) Order 2018 (the “Order”) before the Houses of the Oireachtais on 3 October 2018. From 1 January 2019, the financial thresholds for the mandatory notification of mergers and (...)
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The Irish competition regulator has this week cleared a media merger, subject to a behavioural remedy of ‘ring-fencing’. However, the parties cannot complete the deal for some time yet, as a separate Irish media plurality process may only commence now such that the total length of the Irish (...)
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On 16 May 2018, Advocate General Sañchez-Bordona of the Court of Justice of the European Union opined on the ability of Member States to take a harsh stance on the exclusion from Government tenders of companies with a record of past illegality, such as cartel behaviour or bid-rigging. While (...)
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