With more than 24 years’ experience, in addition to conducting multijurisdictional merger control analyses, navigating and obtaining antitrust and regulatory approvals for complex transactions within and outside of the EU, and negotiating remedies packages, Davina represents leading sovereign wealth funds, private equity (PE) firms, global institutional asset managers and banks in the context of their strategic and financial investments (transactional and contentious).

Davina also advises on:

• Abuse of dominance investigations by the European Commission (EC), Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), Office of Communications (Ofcom), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Office of Gas & Electricity Markets (Ofgem) (Art. 102/C.II CA98).
• Cartel, information-exchange and other behavioral investigations by the EC, CMA, Ofcom, FCA and Ofgem (Art.101/Ch.I CA98).
• Other investigations by government agencies and regulators, including under the UK National Security & Investment Act 2021 and other national security/foreign investment (FDI) regimes, and under the public interest provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002, and EC State aid and UK subsidies rules.
• Competition/regulatory appeals/judicial review, private damages claims and class actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT)/courts.

During her secondment to a global financial institution, Davina led on antitrust and regulatory investigations. She has worked in Washington, D.C., where she represented technology, defence, shipping and pharmaceutical/life sciences companies on significant strategic transactions, produced an econometric study in the context of parallel United States/EU antitrust litigation and participated in International Competition Network merger control projects. She has also worked in Brussels and has been seconded to the UK communications regulator, where she worked on merger investigations and wrote the government’s study into digital TV and analogue switch-over.

Chambers UK commends Ms. Garrod for expressing “complex analysis in a commercial manner” for being “very knowledgeable and efficient” and “good at coordinating large amounts of data.” She is highlighted as an “excellent choice for clients.”