Jackie Holland
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Competition Law
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About
Provided by Jackie Holland
Practice Areas
Jackie Holland’s practice focuses on EU and UK antitrust enforcement, merger control, State aid/subsidies, competition litigation, market investigations, and sectoral regulation.
She represents clients before the Competition and Markets Authority, the European Commission, and sectoral regulators, as well as in litigation in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European Court of Justice.
Career
Jackie brings to her client work more than 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors. She has particular insight into the working practices of the competition authorities having spent five years in senior positions at the Office of Fair Trading, including Senior Director of the Policy Group and a Phase 1 decision-maker for mergers. She helped to reform the agency’s merger control regime and antitrust procedures, and introduced a Procedural Officer to oversee the agency’s casework.
Jackie joined Cleary Gottlieb as a partner in 2021.
Professional Memberships
England and Wales, Brussels, and Republic of Ireland.
Chambers Review
UK
Jackie Holland demonstrates notable activity in obtaining competition law clearance for high-value corporate transactions, including those that advance to phase II investigations. She also frequently represents technology sector clients in CMA investigations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Jackie Holland's calmness and strategic thinking are her most valuable assets. She is very resilient and can navigate extremely complex situations."
"We loved working with Jackie Holland."
"Jackie Holland is an exceptional lawyer, combining both strong substantive and analytical ability with a talent for managing complex and sometimes tricky stakeholder dynamics."
"She is just very organised, sharp and on top of everything."
"Jackie Holland is very knowledgeable about the CMA merger control process and is a very good adviser on strategy. She is business-oriented and understands the business at stake well."
"Jackie Holland's calmness and strategic thinking are her most valuable assets. She is very resilient and can navigate extremely complex situations."
"We loved working with Jackie Holland."
"Jackie Holland is an exceptional lawyer, combining both strong substantive and analytical ability with a talent for managing complex and sometimes tricky stakeholder dynamics."
"She is just very organised, sharp and on top of everything."
"Jackie Holland is very knowledgeable about the CMA merger control process and is a very good adviser on strategy. She is business-oriented and understands the business at stake well."
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