Press Releases
Hogan Lovells Advises IBM In Acquisition of Red Hat, Inc.
09 July 2019
Ciara Kennedy-Loest
Email ciara.kennedy-loest@hoganlovells.com
Phone +44 20 7296 5173 (London) +32 2 505 0900 (Brussels)
Fax +44 20 7296 2001 (London) +32 2 505 0996 (Brussels)
LanguagesEnglish, Italian, French
Practice groupGlobal Regulatory
“an impressive speaker who combines sound business sense with an in-depth knowledge of public procurement”
Chambers UK 2009
Whether you are looking for someone to help you coordinate a global merger, fight your corner in a procurement dispute or help you make sense of the State aid rules, Ciara can assist. The regulatory insights and contacts she has with anti-trust agencies from splitting her twenty years with the firm between our London and Brussels offices can make all the difference when it comes to getting your mergers through.
Her punchy and pragmatic style has also made her a household name in the field of public procurement where she has secured great results for clients in the UK courts and also the European Courts in Luxembourg where she has a 100% success rate.
Awards and recognitions
2010
Global Public Procurement Lawyer of the Year
The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
2018-2019
Competition Law (UK), Foreign expert for Belgium
Chambers Global
2016
Band 1 - Public Procurement
Chambers UK
Education and admissions
Education
Post-diploma studies on Competition Law, King's College London, 1996
The College of Law, Chester, 1992
LL.B., University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1991
Memberships
Member of the Steering Committee of the Procurement Lawyers Association
Bar admissions and qualifications
Solicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, Republic of Ireland
Representative experience
Acting for ALSTOM on the merger aspects of General Electric's $12.3bn acquisition of ALSTOM's energy business.
Acting for IBM on the EU merger control aspects of the sale of its $2.3bn x86 server business to Lenovo.
Advising IBM on the merger control aspects of its US$1.5bn sale of its microelectronics business to GlobalFoundries.
Advising Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi on the EU merger control aspects of the integration of their thermal power generation operations.
Acting for ALSTOM in the UK court public procurement challenge to Eurostar's award to Siemens of a £600m contract for the Channel Tunnel rolling stock.
Successfully defending Fusion for Energy on two procurement challenges at the General Court in relation to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project.
Successfully defending Europol, the European Police Office, in two procurement challenges brought before the General Court of the EU by an unsuccessful bidder.
Advising the Hellenic Republic Development Fund on the State aid aspects of the proposed privatisation of the Greek Railways.
Latest thinking and events
Hogan Lovells Publications
Brexit – Possible models for the UK/EU relationship
12 July 2016
Hogan Lovells Publications
What will Brexit mean for UK public and utilities procurement IP Alert
8 July 2016
WebCast
The Global Antitrust Corner – Circumnavigating the Merger Control World
01 October 2015 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (DST)
Blog Post
Updated Merger Filing Rules in COMESA
23 April 2015
WebCast
The Global Antitrust Corner – International Antitrust Investigations and Cooperation
15 May 2014 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (EST)
