Sheila Tormey

Partner

Sheila advises on the full range of EU and Irish competition law issues. Her merger control practice includes EU and Irish merger control, including the Irish media merger regime.

Sheila Tormey

Sheila is a Partner in William Fry’s Competition & Regulation Department. She has extensive experience in cartel investigations, distribution agreements, conduct by dominant firms and competition law damages actions. In addition, she advises on State aid, telecoms regulation and public procurement law. She has particular experience of working with clients in the private equity and financial services sectors.

Significant matters include advising:

  • An Irish motor insurer on the CCPC’s long running competition law investigation into alleged concerted practices in Irish motor insurance sector
  • J&E Davy on the Irish merger control clearance of the agreed 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 the Irish merger control clearances of 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 and pricing issues

 

Ranking & Recommendations

Article and Insights
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Jan 2022
Long-awaited legislation to give effect to the implementation of EU Directive 2019...
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27
Sep 2021
Both the EU and Irish merger control regimes need regular refreshing to make sure ...
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Article and Insights
30
Apr 2021
Busy times for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
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Article and Insights
23
Apr 2021
Recent developments in Irish competition law include lengthy merger control review...
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Article and Insights
29
Mar 2021
The Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement both govern the ‘...
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Article and Insights
9
Feb 2021
We summarise the top 5 impacts of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on Com...
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9
Feb 2021
We summarise the main impacts of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on Trad...
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Article and Insights
20
Jan 2021
The government may introduce a screening mechanism for foreign direct investment i...
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Article and Insights
18
Jan 2021
Late last year, the European Commission launched its long-awaited set of new rules...
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Article and Insights
22
Dec 2020
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has closed its ticketing invest...
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