Bio

Marjorie Holmes focuses on competition law in several sectors, including aviation, marine, insurance, construction, energy, life sciences and finance sectors. Marjorie has represented companies in a number of important investigations by the European Commission and the UK Competition Authorities. She also acts as legal adviser to several trade associations and has significant merger control experience including dealing with phase 2 clearances. Marjorie has experience of obtaining many individual exemptions from the European Commission pre 2004. This experience is invaluable to creating in accordance with Article 101 (3)-- self assessments which are not vulnerable to challenge for parties who set up non-full function joint ventures or loose cooperations. Marjorie's work also includes public interest tests, national security concerns and price control references, key legal themes that have characterised the competition landscape in recent years. She is one of the few lawyers with UK High Court, Court of Appeal and ECJ private actions competition law related experience, including running cases to successful judgements. Marjorie is also part of the firm’s global environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice. She has a particular focus on the governance aspects of ESG. Sustainability and climate change are hot topics for many clients and she is advising on how to move ahead in Reed Smith sector strength industries within the confines of competition law. She had drafted a whistle-blower regime for use by legal entities who have a policy to commit to climate change measures. Marjorie is included in GCR Who`s Who Legal (WWL) 2022 and has been nominated by in-house counsel and peers in the 12th edition of Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc. WWL says: “Marjorie Holmes is a superb competition and compliance lawyer who is recognised for her dynamic approach and knowledge of the area.” Marjorie was also chosen by way of peer review as a leading Competition and Antitrust practitioner in the UK and inclusion in the 10th annual Euromoney Women in Business Law Expert Guide (2020 edition), which celebrates exclusively the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of female practitioners in their industries.