Nicole is Global Co-Head of the Antitrust Department. She advises on global merger investigations from an antitrust and foreign investment screening standpoint and has led over 40 significant merger reviews before the UK and European authorities. She also advises on cartels, abuse of dominance and consumer law investigations and consequential litigation (particularly in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal), compliance issues and self-reporting to financial and other regulators. Nicole has been described as “extremely knowledgeable and one of the very top UK competition lawyers”. Clients express that she is “very bright, strategically smart and incredibly sharp” with several naming her “the star of the competition sector”.
Publications
Co-author of the Editors’ Introduction , European Union - Market Insights and United Kingdom - Market Insights chapters in the Merger Control Law Guide , published 13 July 2026 , alongside Catherine Hammon , Henrik Morch , Annie Herdman and Lauren O’Brien .