Miranda Cole

EU and UK Antitrust Practice Lead at Ashurst Perkins Coie

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With more than 25 years of experience, Miranda Cole has extensive experience helping clients navigate increasing regulatory scrutiny from governments and competition authorities. She also supports clients in aligning their competition strategies and policy engagement in response to new regulatory frameworks.

Miranda helps clients with transactional and behavioural matters, advising on merger control; foreign direct investment and foreign subsidies reviews of mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions; abuse of dominance and anticompetitive agreements under Articles 101 and 102 TFEU and Chapters 1 and 2 of the U.K. Competition Act (including vertical and collaborative arrangements); technology transactions; issues relating to intellectual property, access, standardisation, and interoperability; information exchange and data; digital regulation (including the EU DMA and AI Act and U.K. DMCC Act), and compliance and advisory matters.

Regarded as a key advisor to technology companies globally, Miranda is recognised as a leading EU and U.K. competition lawyer by Chambers & Partners. She is described by clients as having “the ability to guide [clients] towards the right answer before [they] have to dive into details” and “a very pragmatic approach of how the assessments [clients] are making will link with [their] business.”