Sheila Tormey

Partner

Sheila is a Partner in William Fry’s Competition & Regulation Department. She advises on EU and Irish merger control, Irish foreign investment screening, competition law enforcement and telecoms regulation.

Sheila Tormey

Sheila’s practice has particular focus on EU and Irish merger control, including the Irish media merger regime. She has worked on a wide range of deals, including for private equity and trade buyers. Sheila also has extensive experience in cartel investigations, distribution agreements, conduct by dominant firms and competition law damages actions. In addition, she advises on State aid and telecoms regulation. Sheila has experience across many industries, including asset management, wealth management, insurance, pharmaceuticals, waste management, media and retail. Sheila provides responsive, pragmatic and commercial advice, and runs her matters with efficiency and diligence.

Significant matters include advising:

  • Carlyle Cardinal on its sale of The City Bin Co. to Thorntons Recycling
  • Uniphar on its proposed acquisition of NaviCorp
  • A motor insurer on the CCPC’s competition law investigation in the Irish motor insurance sector
  • J&E Davy on the sale of its wealth management, capital markets and associated businesses to Bank of Ireland
  • A truck manufacturer on the defence of competition law damages actions in Ireland following the European Commission’s 2016 infringement decision
  • Phoenix Group on its acquisitions of Standard Life Assurance and ReAssure Group and its sale of Ark Life
  • FMCG, life sciences and other clients on a range of distribution, pricing issues and regulatory issues

Ranking & Recommendations

Article and Insights
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Feb 2024
Following the Minister's publication of draft Guidance in February 2024, this arti...
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28
Feb 2024
The draft guidance by the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment provides us...
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Cormac Little SC
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27
Sep 2023
Changes to the Competition Act 2002 have come into force after a long lead time. ...
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Cormac Little SC
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31
Jan 2022
Long-awaited legislation to give effect to the implementation of EU Directive 2019...
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Article and Insights
27
Sep 2021
Both the EU and Irish merger control regimes need regular refreshing to make sure ...
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30
Apr 2021
Busy times for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
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Apr 2021
Recent developments in Irish competition law include lengthy merger control review...
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29
Mar 2021
The Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement both govern the ‘...
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Feb 2021
We summarise the main impacts of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on Trad...
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Feb 2021
We summarise the top 5 impacts of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on Com...
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