Linklaters LLP

Bruce Kilpatrick

Partner in the Addleshaw Goddard competition group, based in London, specialising in UK and EC competition and merger control law. Represents clients across a wide variety of sectors, including financial services, IT, industry, transport and retail and has acted on a wide range of cases in the UK and EC. These include: advising clients in recent CMA competition investigations (including construction and e-books); advising clients on recent merger control investigations (including Omnicell/Surgichem and Alliance Medical/IBA Molecular); advising clients in CMA market studies, market investigations, including retail banking, private motor insurance, PPI and NI banking.

Verity Egerton-Doyle

Verity is a partner in Linklaters’ London Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group and co-head of the UK technology sector team and Co-Head of Games and Interactive Entertainment. Verity has over a decade of experience across advisory, investigatory and transactional aspects of competition law in the EU and the UK, including representing clients in both regulatory appeals and stand-alone antitrust litigation before the UK courts. She is particularly familiar with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, having spent time on secondment to the CMA’s mergers group, during which she sat on the CMA’s Mergers Intelligence Committee. Verity has particular expertise in competition issues related to market power in dynamic and innovation-driven markets. She is recognised as a leading expert on competition and regulatory issues in the tech sector and on platform regulation regimes.

Anna Mitchell

Anna is a partner in the antitrust & foreign investment group at Linklaters. She has almost 15 years’ of experience advising clients on a range of complex competition matters, in particular complex UK and EU merger control, UK public takeovers, global foreign direct investment and market studies. More recently, she has been guiding clients through the new EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. She is well recognised in the market and, in particular, has recently been named in the Global Competition Review “40 under 40” 2023 for Foreign Investment Control, as a “Shining Star” in Antitrust 2023 by W@Competition, as a “Future Leader” in Who’s Who Legal: Competition and as a “Next Generation Partner” in Legal 500’s rankings.