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Ms Davina Garrod
Work Department
Partner; Antitrust & International Competition
Position
Davina Garrod is co-head of Akin’s global antitrust & competition practice and head of Akin’s international competition group. She advises multinationals, corporates and financial institutions on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and restructurings. With more than 24 years’ experience, in addition to navigating and obtaining antitrust and regulatory approvals for complex transactions within and outside of Europe, and negotiating remedies packages, Davina represents sovereign wealth funds, private equity (PE) firms and banks in the context of their strategic and financial investments (transactional and contentious). Davina also represents companies active in, inter alia, technology, communications, chemicals, energy, transportation, defence, retail and industrials in behavioural EC Article 101/102 and UK Ch.I/Ch.II investigations, and other investigations by government agencies and regulators globally, including UK National Security & Investment Act/European FDI, EU/UK State aid/subsidies, competition/regulatory appeals, and private damages claims before the CAT/courts.
To learn more about Ms. Garrod, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/davina-garrod.html
Memberships
Law Society Competition Section Advisory Committee chairperson (2012, 2013)/member (2010-2022); Council Member for EU Matters, Law Society of England & Wales, 2012 to 2017; Law Society BREXIT Taskforce, 100 Women in Finance; Women’s Competition Network; IBA Public Law Committee (2010-2014) Chairperson (2011); ABA Antitrust Section (2003-2023).
Education
L.P.C., The College of Law, London, 1996; Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, M.A., 1995 (Hons) Law
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
(Leading individuals)Boasting a client base that includes large multinationals, investment funds and top financial institutions, the ‘highly collaborative, effective and pragmatic’ team at Akin is renowned for its extensive expertise advising on multi-jurisdictional merger control, behavioural investigations, state aid, and complex litigation matters. Praised for her ‘attention to detail’, practice head Davina Garrod advises numerous corporates and financial institutions on M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, restructuring and other forms of equity and debt investments. The ‘exceptional’ Scott Pettifor advises clients across a broad range of sectors, including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, food, retail, media and insurance, on merger control matters and behavioural issues. Pettifor has also played an instrumental role in driving further growth within the London team.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- EU and competition London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Finance > Acquisition finance