Tom Smith

Partner at Geradin Partners

Speaker

Tom recently joined Geradin Partners as a partner, having previously been Legal Director at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Tom has significant experience in the banking sector, having led the team that implemented the UK’s Open Banking regulations, which came out of the CMA’s retail banking market investigation. Tom also led the legal team on the Digital Markets Taskforce, set up by the UK Government to advise it on the new regulatory regime for ‘digital gatekeepers’ such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. He led the legal team on the CMA’s influential digital advertising market study, the CMA’s work on setting up the Digital Markets Unit, and its antitrust enforcement cases in the tech sector. He also directed many of the CMA’s most high-profile merger cases such as Sainsbury’s/Asda (groceries), Illumina/PacBio (genome sequencing) and BT/EE (telecoms).