Freshfields

Antitrust, Competition and Trade

Partner

Sharon is a partner in our global Antitrust, Competition and Trade group and a member of the firm’s global Tech and Data SteerCo.  Sharon is experienced in acting for clients before the EU and UK regulators and courts, and has advised clients on several high-profile antitrust investigations and market inquiries, new digital regulation such as the EU Digital Markets Act, merger control and foreign investment inquiries, and antitrust litigation.

Sharon advises clients on all aspects of EU and UK competition law.  She has significant experience of assisting clients with strategically complex antitrust and regulatory investigations, particularly in the technology, financial services and life sciences sectors. Her investigations and litigation work also mean that she is experienced in advising on matters involving the intersection of competition, privacy and consumer protection laws, and on complex competition/FRAND patent law disputes.

In 2024, Sharon was named in Global Competition Review's prestigious ‘40 Under 40’ list of the world's leading competition law practitioners.  She is also named in Who’s Who Legal’s list of ‘Competition Law Future Leaders – Partners’ (2024 and 2023), was a shortlisted finalist for Global Competition Review’s ’Lawyer of the Year – Under 40’ award (2023), and the winner of a ‘Private Practice Shining Star’ award from Women@Competition (2023).  Sharon has also previously been recognised as a ‘Global Top 50 Future Female Leader’ by the Financial Times and HERoes.

Sharon sits on the Advisory Board of the European Competition and Regulatory Circle, and on the Executive Committee of Women@Competition UK.  She is a former Competition and Patent Law guest lecturer at Kings College London and a former Non-Executive Director and Trustee of Rosa – the UK Fund for Women and Girls.