Miranda Cole

With more than 25 years of experience, Miranda L. Cole helps clients address regulatory scrutiny from governments and competition authorities and works with clients to develop strategies to manage and mitigate competition risk. She also supports clients in developing their competition and regulatory strategies for and policy engagement with European digital frameworks, including the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, Data Act, Digital Services Act, AI Act, Platform 2 Business Regulation, European Health Data Space Regulation, and legislative proposals, as well as the United Kingdom’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act. 

Miranda helps a broad range of companies with transactional and behavioral competition matters, advising on merger control; foreign direct investment; and foreign subsidies reviews of M&As, joint ventures, and other transactions. She also counsels clients on behavioral issues raised in contracting, negotiations, and product development. Miranda guides clients through investigations of potential abuses of dominance and anticompetitive agreements under Articles 101 and 102 of The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Chapters 1 and 2 of the U.K. Competition Act, including vertical and collaborative arrangements; technology and IP development and licensing; access, interoperability, and standardization; and creation, use, and access to data. Following the adoption of the European digital framework, Miranda advises technology developers on the implementation of numerous overlapping instruments and their interaction with competition law, including as compliance counsel to a DMA gatekeeper. She also assists clients in developing competition and regulatory compliance and advisory strategies and programs. 

With substantial experience advising companies in the technology, gaming, content, life sciences, and digital devices sectors globally, Miranda is recognized as a leading EU and U.K. competition lawyer by Chambers & Partners. She is described by clients as having “the ability to guide clients towards the right answer before they have to dive into details” and “a very pragmatic approach of how the assessments clients are making will link with their business.”