Victoria Newbold
Partner
London
Vic draws upon her extensive experience, which cuts across both the UK and global landscapes in private and corporate settings, to position herself as a trusted advisor on critical antitrust and competition matters.
Vic’s practice encompasses merger control and foreign direct investment/national security, complex behavioural investigations and antitrust counselling. She has represented clients on some of the most high-profile cases before the European Commission, Competition & Markets Authority, Financial Conduct Authority and other national competition agencies around the world. Vic advises clients across the sectors in which Orrick focuses, but she has a particular specialism in the tech, financial services and retail sectors. She is recommended in The Legal 500 UK as a “rising star” and is ranked as a Next Generation Partner.
Prior to joining Orrick, Vic was senior competition counsel at Bloomberg. There, she was responsible for the global management of competition law matters, showcasing her ability to provide legal support on an international scale and at the intersect of antitrust and fintech regulation.
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- Advised Octopus Energy Generation on the acquisition of a minority indirect interest in the operational East Anglia One Offshore Wind Farm in the UK from Macquarie Asset Management.
- Advised leading financial institutions, including Tesco Bank, the London Stock Exchange, Investec, Morgan Stanley, Bank of China, Stoxx/Qontigo (part of the Deutsche Borse group), BGC, Cantor Fitzgerald, and AIG in connection with antitrust counselling/investigations.
- Advised Bloomberg in connection with the antitrust aspects of its role in coordinating stakeholder input in the design and rollout of the EU’s Taxonomy Regulation, a system that provides both financial and non-financial firms with a classification system for sustainable activities.
- Advised the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative on the design of their antitrust frameworks and membership criteria.
- Advised the London Stock Exchange on the antitrust aspects of the establishment of a new and highly novel UK market for the trading of shares of private companies including the design of trading rules.
- Advised Bloomberg, Refinitiv and MarketAxess in connection with the formation of a consortium founded for the purposes of biding to deliver a consolidated tape for fixed income in the EU and supporting the coordination of industry response, including through ICMA, to European Commission/ESMA and FCA consultations on the applicable regulatory framework.
Please note: Vic's experience includes that prior to joining Orrick.
