Bola is a Senior Associate in the Competition, Regulation and Trade group in London.
Bola specialises in EU and UK competition law. She advises clients across all aspects of complex M&A transactions, foreign investment, antitrust, market/sector investigations, subsidy control and strategic competition law matters.
Bola has experience advising clients across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on the consumer, healthcare, energy and industrials sectors.
Bola has spent time on secondment as Associate General Counsel, Competition at Schneider Electric.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise on the global merger control and foreign investment aspects of its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks*
- Parker-Hannifin on the global merger control and foreign investment clearances for its £6.3bn public offer for Meggitt obtaining EU and UK phase I merger clearances subject to competition remedies, with further national security remedies and economic undertakings given to the UK Government*
- Yokohama Rubber on obtaining unconditional phase I merger approvals from the European Commission and the UK CMA for its €2.1 billion acquisition of Trelleborg Wheel Systems*
- Coty on the global merger control aspects of its strategic partnership with KKR, including KKR’s $1billion investment in Coty convertible preference shares and Coty’s $2.5 billion sale of a majority interest in its Wella Professional Beauty and Retail Hair businesses to KKR*
- Honeywell on the combination of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum Computing and acquisition of a majority stake in the combined company*
- EDF on a range of transactions including the Sizewell C capital raise, life extension agreement for Sizewell B, formal collaboration between Sizewell C and Hinkley Point C*
* Experience gained prior to joining the firm
Sectors
Background
Bola is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
