Kate Newman
Kate is a specialist in competition law with more than 24 years of experience. Kate’s expertise includes advising corporate clients on how to structure their commercial strategies and trading practices to be compliant with competition law; achieving clearances for complex transactions; and steering clients through investigations by the competition authorities.
Kate’s experience includes:
• Advising the main party on a number of Phase 2 merger inquiries by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), including achieving a rare reversal of a key adverse provisional finding during the Phase 2 process.
• Advising one of the largest global satellite operators on the worldwide merger control and investment screening aspects of its US$ 550 million strategic investment in OneWeb, alongside HM Government and Bharti.
• Advising a leading listed dairy company on its £975 million recommended cash acquisition by one of the world’s top ten dairy processors, followed by two strategic acquisitions in new growth areas
• Advising an organisation in an abuse of dominance investigation, achieving early case closure with commitments, meaning there was no finding of dominance and no finding of liability.
• Advising a main party on the CMA’s energy market investigation, one of the CMA’s largest market investigations to date.
• Successfully defending a number of companies who were investigated by the CMA for anti-competitive conduct, achieving a reduction in the level of the fines.
• Advising one of the main parties in the EU’s Trucks cartel investigation.