Davina Garrod is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, based in its London office. She is a member of the EU Competition Group, where her practice focuses on all aspects of EU/UK competition law, including advising on M&A (including multi-jurisdictional filings and risk arbitrage), distribution strategies, cartels, technology licensing, investigations by regulators, State aid, EU public procurement, compliance programmes and, litigation before the European and UK Courts. She also provides strategic, regulatory advice in connection with inter alia, telecoms, broadcasting and IT.
Davina has worked in Washington DC where she provided US antitrust advice on a number of deals, produced an econometric study in the context of U.S. litigation and participated in International Competition Network merger control projects. Davina has also worked in Brussels.
Davina regularly writes articles for a range of titles. She has spoken on competition/regulatory issues at various fora, including at the 2006 Licensing Executives Society International Pan-European Conference.
Prior to joining the Firm, she was seconded to the Independent Television Commission, where she worked on the Carlton/United/Granada Competition Commission merger investigations, wrote the joint OFT/OFTEL/ITC Digital TV study for the UK Government.
Representative Experience
- Devising a selective distribution system for a luxury goods manufacturer
- Advising on various international merger clearances required for the sale of a major industrial compressor/blower business to a competitor
- Devising and implementing a comprehensive competition claims strategy for an Eastern European fixed line telecoms incumbent
- Advising Centerpulse on the sale of its heart valve business to SNIA
- Advising Schmalbach Lubeca on the sale of its PET packaging and closures business to Amcor
- Advising Schmalbach Lubeca on the sale of Continental Can Europe to Ball Corporation
- Advising an international oil and gas company on European Commission cartel investigations in the bitumen industry
- Advising a supplier of components with respect to the European Commission's investigation of OEM printer cartridge manufacturers
- Advising the UK Wholesale Industry Telecom Operators Group as complainant in relation to OFTEL investigations against BT
Education
- College of Law Chester
- Cambridge University (Trinity Hall), 1995
Languages Spoken
- German
