Stephanie Kate Adams
Associate
London
stephanie.adams@lw.com
+44.20.7710.4518
PRACTICES
- Antitrust & Competition
- Litigation & Trial
- Mergers & Acquisitions
INDUSTRIES
EDUCATION
- Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law, King's College London, 2018
- Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, 2012
- Graduate Diploma in Law, The College of Law, 2011
- BA in Modern Languages, University of Bristol, 2010
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- English
- French
PROFILE
Stephanie Adams primarily advises on UK and global merger control, foreign investment screening, antitrust, and subsidy control.
Prior to joining Latham, she worked at a leading international law firm, based in its Brussels office.
EXPERIENCE
Stephanie’s recent representative experience includes advising:
Merger control and foreign investment screening
- Tapestry Inc. on merger control aspects of its proposed acquisition of Capri
- Viasat, Inc. on merger control and foreign investment aspects of its US$7.3 billion combination with Inmarsat
- NVIDIA Corporation on merger control aspects of its planned US$40 billion acquisition of Arm
- The Carlyle Group on merger control and foreign investment aspects of its €2 billion acquisition of Flender from Siemens
- Virgin Orbit on UK regulatory aspects of its de-SPAC merger with NextGen Acquisition Corp
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. on merger control and foreign investment aspects of its US$35 billion acquisition of Xilinx
- Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, Ltd. on foreign investment aspects of its de-SPAC merger with Rigetti
- The senior secured creditors’ committee on merger control and foreign investment aspects of the restructuring of Swissport
- Triton on its acquisition of a majority interest in RENK AG from Volkswagen
- Credit Suisse on merger control aspects of the combination of its open architecture investment fund activities, Credit Suisse InvestLab, with Allfunds
- Foreign investors in connection with a UK public interest review of their acquisition of certain UK media assets
- Thomas Cook Group plc on merger control aspects of its restructuring
- ChemChina on its acquisitions of Pirelli and KraussMaffei*
- Solvay on its acquisition of Cytec*
General antitrust and subsidy control
- A European private equity firm on antitrust infringement proceedings by the CMA against one of its portfolio companies
- NEC Corporation in relation to the European Commission’s investigation into the capacitors cartel*
- A major US technology company on its appeal to the EU General Court of the European Commission’s decision finding illegal State aid*
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham