Kerry O'Connell
Partner, Slaughter and May
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Kerry has extensive experience of both EU and UK competition law and has acted on a wide range of merger control, antitrust, state aid and regulatory matters. She has dealt extensively with the European Commission and the UK competition authorities, as well as other regulators around the world. Kerry is based in the firm’s Brussels office.
Kerry’s recent highlights include advising Vodafone on the acquisition of certain operations of Liberty Global; S&P Global on its proposed merger with IHS Markit; Elanco on its acquisition of Bayer’s Animal Health Business and on the related sale of Elanco’s Osurnia product business to Dechra Pharmaceuticals; and Platts in respect of the European Commission’s oil and biofuels investigation.
Kerry has been recognised by [email protected] in its list of ‘30 in their 30s’ notable women competition practitioners and as a ‘Global Leader’ in Who’s Who Legal: Competition.