Fiona Garside is a Senior Expertise Lawyer, Antitrust, Regulation and Foreign Investment at Ashurst. She has advised on a wide range of EU and UK competition law matters, including cartel investigations, merger control, market reviews/investigations and competition law compliance, with particular experience in financial services. Her role includes working on client briefings and external publications, as well as training and internal legal support.
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On 25 April 2023, the UK Government introduced the draft Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the "Bill"). The date for the second reading is yet to be formally scheduled. In our first update, we provide a high level overview of the proposed reforms. Subsequent updates will focus (...)
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On 28 February 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") published its promised draft guidance on the application of the Chapter 1 prohibition to sustainability agreements between businesses operating at the same level of the supply chain ("Draft Sustainability Guidance"). The CMA is (...)
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On 1 June 2022, the revised EU Vertical Block Exemption Regulation, Regulation 2022/720, (’VBER’) and Vertical Guidelines entered into force. On the same day, the UK Vertical Agreement Block Exemption Order (’VABEO’) entered into force. Both the VBER and VABEO provide for a one year transitional (...)
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