Freshfields

Antitrust, Competition and Trade

Partner and Global Co-Head of Tech, Media and Telecoms

Michele co-heads our Global Tech, Media and Telecoms sector group and assists clients before EU and UK regulators and courts across all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including merger control and foreign investment, Articles 101/102 and equivalent UK legislation, digital regulation, market/sector investigations and sector specific economic regulation.

Michele has particular experience of advising clients on complex M&A and investigations in the digital, telecoms, media, defence and energy sectors. Michele’s tech practice includes advising clients on new digital regulation, including the EU Digital Markets Act, and on the competition law and national security aspects of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence and quantum technology.  She has extensive experience in advising clients on navigating the UK’s public interest and national security regimes, in managing multiple competition and FDI reviews on multi-jurisdictional transactions, and in advising regulated companies on regulatory investigations and price control appeals.

Based in London, she is also a member of the Brussels bar and has spent time on secondment in our Beijing, Brussels and Washington DC offices.

Michele is ranked for Competition Law and Telecommunications in Chambers and Partners, and recognized as a leading lawyer for EU and Competition Law in Legal 500. She is also recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Foreign Investment Control and a Thought Leader in Competition Law in Lexology Index; and recognized as one of the 40 Notable Women Competition Professionals in Europe in Private Practice by Women AT’s 40 in their 40s publication and in Global Competition Review’s Women in Antitrust 2025.