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Richard, Emma and Louren莽o will be responsible for leading legal teams across the CMA鈥檚 portfolio of work 鈥� Richard for mergers, markets and regulatory appeals, Emma for consumer enforcement and Louren莽o for competition enforcement, alongside the current Senior Legal Directors.聽聽聽

Following a highly successful interim promotion, Richard will take up the permanent position with immediate effect. Prior to joining the CMA鈥檚 Legal Service on temporary promotion in January 2023, Richard was a Director within the Mergers team, responsible for overseeing a range of high-profile merger cases. Richard originally joined the CMA in 2019 as a Senior Associate from Freshfields.聽

Emma will join the CMA from Linklaters, where she is a Counsel in the Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. Emma has over ten years鈥� experience as a competition lawyer, including advising on cartel investigations, mergers and acquisitions, market investigations, abuse of a dominant position and other commercial agreements. Prior to Linklaters, Emma spent four years at Simmons and Simmons in the EU, Competition & Regulatory group.聽

Louren莽o is returning to the CMA after spending the last two years working at the European Commission in Brussels. Previously, Louren莽o spent ten years in various roles at the Office of Fair Trading 鈥� the CMA鈥檚 predecessor 鈥� and the CMA, most recently in the role of Legal Director. Before this, Louren莽o spent 3 years at the Lisbon office of law firm Garrigues working on competition and EU law, commercial agreements, pharmaceutical and regulatory, and misdemeanour procedures.聽

Emma is joining the CMA in November and Louren莽o will take up his post at the start of 2025.聽

Welcoming the appointments, Chris Prevett, General Counsel at the CMA said:聽聽

Sound, strategic legal risk management, and reaching robust legal decisions, underpins every aspect of the CMA鈥檚 work on behalf of UK consumers and businesses. With the CMA鈥檚 responsibilities set to grow following the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act, I am really pleased to be making three appointments at this senior level.聽聽

Each of these senior appointments brings substantial expertise, and will add further strength and depth to the senior leadership team and high calibre lawyers and policy professionals comprising the CMA鈥檚 Legal Service.聽

This is a well-deserved promotion for Richard, reflecting his contribution to the CMA鈥檚 Legal Service, and I look forward to working with Emma and welcoming back Louren莽o.

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