Stephanie Adams primarily advises on UK and global merger control, foreign investment screening, antitrust, and subsidy control. 

Prior to joining Latham, she worked at a leading international law firm, based in its Brussels office. 

 

Stephanie’ recent representative experience includes advising:

Merger control and foreign investment screening

  • Viasat, Inc. on merger control and foreign investment aspects of its US$7.3 billion combination with Inmarsat
  • NVIDIA Corporation on merger control aspects of its planned US$40 billion acquisition of Arm
  • The Carlyle Group on merger control and foreign investment aspects of its €2 billion acquisition of Flender from Siemens
  • Virgin Orbit on UK regulatory aspects of its de-SPAC merger with NextGen Acquisition Corp
  • Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. on merger control and foreign investment aspects of its US$35 billion acquisition of Xilinx
  • Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, Ltd. on foreign investment aspects of its de-SPAC merger with Rigetti
  • The senior secured creditors’ committee on merger control and foreign investment aspects of the restructuring of Swissport
  • Triton on its acquisition of a majority interest in RENK AG from Volkswagen
  • Credit Suisse on merger control aspects of the combination of 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 plc on merger control aspects of its restructuring
  • Alere Incon merger control aspects of its acquisition by Abbott Laboratories, and related litigation of the antitrust covenants in the merger agreement*
  • ChemChina on its acquisitions of Pirelli and KraussMaffei*
  • Solvay on its acquisition of Cytec*

General antitrust and subsidy control

  • A European private equity firm on antirust infringement proceedings by the 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*

Antitrust compliance

  • Preparation of a competition law compliance toolkit for a European banking association
  • Antitrust compliance training sessions to a leading global private equity firm

*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