Danica Barley is a senior associate in our EU & competition practice at Ashurst in London and Dublin. She is admitted in England & Wales and Ireland, and advises on a wide range of EU and UK competition law matters, including merger control, antitrust, and competition law compliance, as well as public procurement and consumer protection law. Danica Barley has experience advising clients across numerous sectors and in the context of investigations / market reviews by various competition law regulators including the CMA, the FCA, the PSR, Ofgem and the European Commission. She holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Competition Law from King’s College London.
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On 18 June 2019, the UK government published a press release announcing ’tough new powers for the competition watchdog to fine businesses directly who have broken consumer law’. This follows a request from Lord Tyrie, Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (’CMA’), for enhanced powers (...)
