Anna Lyle-Smythe

Partner at Slaughter and May

Speaker

Anna is an antitrust and digital regulation partner and the Head of the Brussels office at Slaughter and May. She has a broad antitrust and regulation practice, including advising on mergers, cartels and market investigations. She has dealt extensively with the European Commission (EC) and the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as well as other regulators around the world, including when advising Figma on the CMA and EC reviews of its proposed $20 billion acquisition by Adobe (which would have been the largest ever private tech transaction), Salesforce on its $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software and its $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack and Richemont on the combination of Yoox Net-a-Porter and Farfetch, and its broader strategic alliance with Farfetch and Alibaba. Anna is recognised as a leading competition lawyer by Chambers, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal. She has also been recognised by W@Competition as a ‘Five Star Women Competition Professional’ and been previously named as “Lawyer of the Year - Under 40” by Global Competition Review. She is a member of the Brussels Bar (A list), as well as being qualified as a solicitor (England and Wales).