Veronica Roberts is a Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills’ London office. A solicitor advocate, Veronica specialises in EU and UK competition law, and has experience working in Brussels and London. Veronica is head of the firm’s global Foreign Investment group and is global co-head of the firm’s Technology, Media and Telecoms sector. Veronica has an outstanding record of dealing with high profile competition investigations and merger/foreign investment clearances in the UK, EU and worldwide. She has extensive experience of working with the CMA (Competition & Markets Authority), Ofcom, Ofgem, the Investment Security Unit (ISU) and the European Commission. Veronica gave evidence to the House of Commons when the UK’s new FDI/NSI regime was being formulated and has advised clients on many NSI filings, including a number of the conditional clearances issued by the ISU.
2023 Awards
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Nominee, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers
