CMA Consumer Protection and Enforcement: Discussing the New Regime
07 Apr 2025
Location: 2:00 - 3:00pm UK Time (Zoom) Members: - Book by 07 Apr Non Members: - Book by 07 Apr

Highlights
Ahead of the ‘The CMA Consumer Protection and Enforcement Regime Summit’ taking place in May, members of your esteemed Event Advisory Board and additional leading voices will be highlighting and providing unique insights into the recent consumer enforcement power and topics to watch in this rapidly developing area in consumer law. Featuring specialists actively engaged in consumer protection and enforcement, hear first-hand perspectives from the coal face as four leading practitioners share views, opinions and shed light on key topics that will be expanded upon at the Summit on the 22nd May.
Key areas addressed will include:
- Where the augmented consumer enforcement powers fit into the CMA's toolkit
- What the enforcement priorities are and what can be expected
- Preparing for a likely increase in litigation
- Practices likely to be targeted such as greenwashing and fake reviews

Partner
Pinsent Masons
Angelique advises on competition law relating to the abuse of monopoly power and anti-competitive agreements, cartels and consumer protection. She also advises on anti-trust and consumer protection investigations, UK/EU merger control, national security, foreign direct investment controls and subsidies.

Pinsent Masons

Partner, Head of Competition, Co-Head of Retail & Consumer Sector
Addleshaw Goddard
Rona specialises in UK and EC competition and merger control law. She advises UK and international clients on the wide range of competition law matters, including of anti-trust litigation. She is recognised as a leading practitioner in her area and was acclaimed as one of the Lawyer's "Hot 100" for her contributions.
Her clients span a variety of sectors, including comprehensive experience of advising in the retail and consumer sector for over 20 years. She also regularly advises in regulated sectors and co-leads the firm's Water Group. She is recognised by Legal 500 as a leading individual in that area.

Addleshaw Goddard

Of Counsel
Linklaters
Helen is Of Counsel in the Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group based in London. She has over 20 years’ experience advising on a wide range of UK and EU competition matters including complex mergers, market investigations, cartel investigations, litigation (including successful appeals before the Competition Appeal Tribunal in the UK) and compliance matters.
Helen advises clients across a range of sectors and has particular expertise in retail, consumer goods, energy / infrastructure and insurance industries. She regularly advises FTSE 100 corporates at board level. She is a former recipient of the Europe Women in Business “Rising Star” award, and has spent time on client secondment to BP plc and overseas secondment to our Brussels office.
Helen oversees mentoring and recruitment for the London Antitrust & Foreign Investment group with a focus on recruiting and retaining a diverse and happy team that has the tools and flexibility for every individual to maximise their potential.

Linklaters

Partner
Freshfields
Cat is a Partner in our dispute resolution practice in London, specialising in the defence of complex and large-scale group litigation across a range of industries.
Her practice focuses on ESG, consumer protection, and data privacy / data breach claims. Cat has particular expertise in relation to English group litigation having acted on two of the most high profile group actions in the High Court. She has also helped numerous clients to manage contentious regulatory risks and is experienced in dealing with external regulators and authorities.

Freshfields
Agenda
Speakers:
Angelique Bret - Partner - Pinsent Masons
Rona Bar-Isaac - Partner, Head of Competition, Co-Head of Retail & Consumer Sector - Addleshaw Goddard
Helen Crossley - Of Counsel - Linklaters
Cat Greenwood-Smith - Partner - Freshfields