Caroline Hobson

Caroline’s practice focuses on providing clients with strategic competition law and regulatory advice. She represents clients seeking merger control and foreign direct investment (FDI) clearances, and has extensive experience with UK and European Union merger control processes, and the coordination of global merger and FDI filings. She also guides clients on competition law risk management and compliance strategies in respect of pricing, distribution, licensing and joint venture arrangements. She has advised on numerous UK and EU competition investigations, sector inquiries and market investigations, and has secured and defended the interests of clients during dawn raids conducted by the UK and EU competition authorities.

Caroline’s experience spans a wide range of industries, with particular focus on advising clients in the consumer products, technology, media and telecommunications, transportation, financial services, and life sciences sectors. She combines her competition knowledge to advise on broader regulatory areas, including digital, utility, aviation and consumer regulatory regimes.

Caroline has significant experience advising clients, in particular life sciences companies, on public procurement law and supporting them throughout government tender processes, as well as representing them in challenging adverse procurement decisions. She also counsels clients on the application of UK and EU sanctions and export control laws.

Before joining Cooley, Caroline was partner and co-leader of the UK competition and trade group at CMS.