Miranda L. Cole
- European Union (EU) and United Kingdom Antitrust Practice Lead
Miranda is an antitrust and competition lawyer with a focus on the technology, life sciences and healthcare, transport, energy, and resources sectors.
With more than 25 years of experience, Miranda Cole has extensive experience helping clients navigate increasing regulatory scrutiny from governments and competition authorities. She also supports clients in aligning their competition strategies and policy engagement in response to new regulatory frameworks.
Miranda helps a broad range of companies with transactional and behavioural matters, advising on merger control; foreign direct investment and foreign subsidies reviews of mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions; abuse of dominance and anticompetitive agreements under Articles 101 and 102 TFEU and Chapters 1 and 2 of the U.K. Competition Act (including vertical and collaborative arrangements); technology transactions; issues relating to intellectual property, access, standardisation, and interoperability; and issues related to information exchange and data), digital regulation (including the EU DMA and AI Act and U.K. DMCC Act), and compliance and advisory strategies and programs.
Regarded as a key advisor to life sciences and technology companies globally, Miranda is recognised 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.”
Areas of focus
Education & Credentials
Education
- University of London, LL.M., with distinction, 1997
- University of Queensland, LL.B., 1993
- University of Queensland, B.A., English and Government, 1991
Bar and Court Admissions
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England and Wales
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Balie Brussel Nederlandse Orde (Belgium)
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
- High Court of Australia
- Federal Court of Australia
Related Employment
- Norton Rose Fulbright, Brussels, Belgium, Partner, 2022-2025; Head of Brussels, 2022-2025
- Covington & Burling LLP, Brussels, Belgium, Partner, 2011-2022; Special Counsel, 2009-2011
- Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Senior Associate, 2003-2009
- Squire Sanders & Dempsey, Associate, 1997-2003
- Mallensons Stephen Jaques, Solicitor, 1994-1996
Additional Languages
- French
Professional Recognition
Recognised as a notable practitioner in Competition: EU by Chambers Europe, 2011-2024
Recognised as a notable practitioner in Competition: EU by Chambers Global, 2013-2025
Recognised as a leading partner in Competition: EU and Global by The Legal 500 UK, 2022
Recognised in Women in Antitrust by Global Competition Review, 2016, 2021
Shortlisted for Europe Women in Business Law Awards for Competition and Antitrust, Euromoney Legal Media Group, 2014-2018; 2021