Bio
Sommer is a Competition Solicitor.
Sommer works with business owners who wish to implement competition compliance to prevent future breaches or risk of investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority.
As well as implementing immediate compliance to prevent future risk, she assists business owners in the anticipation of acquisitions in assessing whether the transaction is potentially caught by the NSIA.
She also assists business owners with company law compliance, including assisting with internal company administration and transactions within their company, such as the transfer of shares, share sales, share buybacks and restructuring.
Sommer also works with business owners who are planning for the future through the anticipated purchase or sale of a company, proposed investments and management buyouts.
Examples of Sommer’s work include:
- Advising on several NSIA mandatory notifications within the engineering and industrial sectors, including preparing a request for information on the targets, carrying out an assessment, determining whether the targets activities and services are caught by any of the thresholds within any of 17 sectors of the NSIA, and preparing the notification to be submitted to the Secretary of State accordingly.
- Assisting in a CMA investigation into the roofing sector, including advising on compliance with the CMA’s Section 26 Competition Act 1998 Notice.