Lovells

Lesley specialises in EU and competition law. She trained with the firm and qualified in 1981. In the mid-1980s she spent a number of years practising in our Brussels office and subsequently spent time on secondment to the anti-trust department of a New York law firm, before returning to our EU and competition law practice in London, which she now heads.

She advises on EU law generally and in particular on UK and EC competition law. She has extensive experience of representing clients under investigation by the European Commission, the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission. In addition to day-to-day advisory work, she is regularly involved in handling "dawn raids", and in the development of competition compliance programmes. She also advises on merger clearance and other competition aspects of acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures, including co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional clearance applications.

Lesley is regularly listed as a "leading individual" in the EU and competition law sections of Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession and Legal 500.