Rachel Iley

emphasis

• Commercial agreements and competition law
• Dealing with abuse of a dominant market position
• Competition compliance programmes and training
• Dawn raids and other competition investigations
• Launching and defending competition law actions
• EU and UK mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
• Market and sector investigations

Representative Work

• Advising various market leading companies on commercial agreements and compliance, in particular their pricing and licensing terms
• Advising data owners on their data licensing policies and potential challenges
• Steering various clients through their participation in standards setting initiatives
• Structuring ticketing arrangements for an international sporting event, including the tendering process, commercial contracts and dealing with complaints
• Advising main parties to the Competition Commission market investigations into the UK groceries market, and payment protection insurance
• Advising Thomson Reuters on various recent acquisitions
• Representing a successful complainant against abusive conduct and launching a follow on action for damages

About

Rachel advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition law, providing legal and strategic advice in relation to structuring transactions and obtaining merger clearance, compliance, investigations, launching and defending competition law actions and public procurement. Rachel has represented clients across a variety of sectors, including software, IT, financial services, retail, advertising, information services, travel, sports and music.

Rachel joined Kemp Little in July 2008 from S J Berwin where she qualified in September 2001. Rachel has extensive experience of dealing with the OFT, the Competition Commission and the European Commission, having worked in London, Brussels, and on secondment to the De Beers Group.

Rachel is also a member of the Law Society Competition Section’s Pro Bono scheme.