Emma Lythgoe
Managing Associate | London
“Emma has been brilliant. She is really easy to work with, clear in explaining complex advice with many shades of grey and really weighs up the risks and demonstrates she cares. I feel I can trust her advice and that the company is in safe hands”
Head of Legal & Compliance at a UK PLC
Call: 0345 077 9561 Mobile: 0781 275 9392
About Emma
Emma is a Managing Associate in the London Competition team. She advises on a range of UK competition law issues, including merger control and behavioural issues, and also has experience of national security and investment, compliance and regulatory, competition litigation and subsidy control. Emma also regularly works with clients in the manufacturing, retail, beauty and personal care, hospitality, transport and energy sectors, and works closely with public authorities.
Emma regularly delivers client training, including on competition compliance and dawn raids, to Boards of Directors, Senior Management and In-House Legal teams. Notable recent work has included leading an internal investigation for a PLC into competition compliance, which involved interviewing employees and advising on making an approach to the CMA as well as drafting and project managing a UK merger notification which led to an unconditional Phase 1 merger clearance from the CMA.
Emma joined Freeths from BT Plc and is an expert on telecommunications. Emma has also lived in Spain and speaks Spanish
Education
Postgraduate diploma in EU Competition, King's College London
Contact Emma
Call: 0345 077 9561
Mobile: 0781 275 9392
Notable work & expertise
Cases
- Advising and training multiple major companies on competition compliance, including advising on complex commercial arrangements with competitors, customers, licensees and suppliers.
- Advising a UK plc on an internal Competition Law investigation involving allegations of resale price maintenance and collusion with resellers in a dual-distribution context.
- Advising a property development scheme in relation to restrictive covenants applicable to land.
- Advising clients on the UK’s National Security and Investment Act 2021 and its applicability to qualifying entities and assets, including acting on mandatory notifications.
- Advised SPV funding recipient on Subsidy Control/State Aid issues arising from an uplift to an EU State Aid compliant public loan facility in relation to town centre redevelopment works in Greater Manchester.
- Provided competition law and regulatory advice across all British Telecommunications Plc Group businesses.
- Provided competition law advice to and advised on the sale of BT Fleet Solutions.
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