Miranda Cole

With more than 25 years of experience, Miranda Cole has extensive experience helping clients navigate regulatory scrutiny from governments and competition authorities. She also supports clients in developing their competition and regulatory strategies for, and policy engagement with, European digital frameworks (including the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Data Act, Digital Services Act, AI Act, Platform 2 Business Regulation, European Health Data Space Regulation, and the U.K.’s DMCC Act).

Miranda helps a broad range of companies with transactional and behavioural matters, advising on merger control; foreign direct investment; and foreign subsidies reviews of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other transactions. She also counsels clients in connection with behavioural issues raised in contracting and negotiations and product development. Miranda guides clients through investigations relating to potential abuses 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 and intellectual property development and licensing; access, interoperability, and standardisation; and creation, use, and access to data. She also assists clients in developing competition and regulatory compliance and advisory strategies and programs.