Chloe Birkett

Chloe is a Senior Associate in the Competition team based in London. She advises on a range of UK competition law issues, including merger control, behavioural issues, competition compliance, and competition law risk in commercial agreements or transactions, in addition to providing competition law compliance training to Boards of Directors, Senior Management and In-House Legal teams. She also advises on the UK’s national security and investment regime.

Prior to joining Freeths, Chloe was an associate at Goodwin Procter and worked on a range of complex multijurisdictional merger control matters, including Amazon / iRobot. Chloe has experience of advising clients on complex matters involving multiple EU foreign direct investment and national security filings. Chloe advises clients in the retail, life sciences, financial, defence, and technology sectors. She trained at Bird & Bird, where she completed two seats of her training contract in competition, one of which was on secondment to the Brussels office. She completed her year abroad at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. 

Chloe recently obtained the Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King’s College London. She is a member of Shine, Freeths’ LGBTQ+ network and enjoys running and being at the gym in her spare time. 

Memberships

• Law Society Competition Section
• Competition Law Association