Helen specialises in financial services markets and has experience in competition policy, regulation, litigation and arbitration. She has analysed the economics of markets on both the wholesale and retail sides of the financial services sector. Much of her work has focused on high-profile issues, including the European Commission’s investigation into the proposed London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse merger, the impact of the financial transaction tax, and the investigations into FX trading by various competition and financial regulators. Helen has presented evidence to the European Commission and the CMA, as well as to international regulators and authorities such as the Australian Reserve Bank and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. She has been listed in ‘30 in their 30s’ Notable Women Competition Professionals.
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The European Commission is consulting on updating its 1997 Market Definition Notice, which provides important guidance on identifying relevant markets in competition cases. One hotly debated topic is defining markets for two-sided platforms. We discuss some common misunderstandings on this (...)
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On 2 June, the European Commission launched consultations on proposals for a New Competition Tool (NCT) and its Digital Services Act package. As an NCT based on a market structure threshold (options 3 and 4 in the Commission’s proposals) would be similar to the UK’s market investigation regime in (...)
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