Stephanie Adams advises corporates and private equity funds on all aspects of UK, European, and international competition matters, and on obtaining foreign investment approvals.

Stephanie draws on her depth of experience navigating multijurisdictional transactions and complex antitrust matters to guide clients on a wide range of issues including:

  • UK, European, and global merger control
  • Foreign investment screening, including the UK National Security and Investment Act
  • Antitrust
  • Subsidy control

In addition to her European expertise, she unlocks the resources of Latham’s global platform to coordinate complex matters across borders.

Before joining Latham, Stephanie worked in the Brussels office of another leading international law firm.

Stephanie’s recent experience includes advising:

Merger Control and Foreign Investment Screening

  • Tapestry on the merger control aspects of its proposed acquisition of Capri
  • Viasat on the merger control and foreign investment aspects of its US$7.3 billion combination with Inmarsat
  • NVIDIA on the merger control and foreign investment aspects of its planned US$40 billion acquisition of Arm
  • The Carlyle Group on the merger control and foreign investment aspects of its €2 billion acquisition of Flender from Siemens
  • Virgin Orbit on the UK regulatory aspects of its de-SPAC merger with NextGen Acquisition Corp
  • Advanced Micro Devices on the merger control and foreign investment aspects of its US$35 billion acquisition of Xilinx
  • Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, Ltd. on the foreign investment aspects of its de-SPAC merger with Rigetti
  • The senior secured creditors’ committee on the merger control and foreign investment aspects of Swissport’s restructuring
  • Triton on acquiring a majority interest in RENK AG from Volkswagen
  • Credit Suisse on the merger control aspects of combining its open architecture investment fund activities, Credit Suisse InvestLab, with Allfunds
  • Foreign investors in connection with a UK public interest review of their acquisition of certain UK media assets
  • Thomas Cook Group on the merger control aspects of its restructuring
  • ChemChina on acquiring Pirelli and KraussMaffei*
  • Solvay on acquiring Cytec*

General Antitrust and Subsidy Control

  • A European private equity firm on antitrust infringement proceedings by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) against one of its portfolio companies
  • NEC Corporation in relation to the European Commission’s investigation into the capacitors cartel*
  • A major US technology company on its appeal to the EU General Court of the European Commission’s decision finding illegal State aid*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

 

 

 

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law, King's College London, 2018
  • Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, 2012
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, The College of Law, 2011
  • BA in Modern Languages, University of Bristol, 2010

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • French