Biography
A solicitor advocate, Veronica Roberts is a partner and UK Regional Head of Herbert Smith Freehills' Competition, Regulation and Trade practice. Veronica has 25 years’ experience dealing effectively with high profile competition investigations and merger clearances in the UK, EU and worldwide. She also regularly advises on competition compliance (including setting up compliance programmes/audits) and strategic behavioural matters. Veronica advises clients in a range of sectors.
As well as her role as HSF Global Co-Head of the TMT sector, Veronica is also Head of HSF's Global Foreign Direct Investment Group. Through this role she has been involved in several of the conditional clearances issued to date under the UK's new FDI (NSI) regime and in March 2023 gave oral evidence before a Parliamentary Select Committee on the first year of operation of the NSI regime in practice.
Veronica is consistently commended for her pragmatic and commercial advice in the major legal directories, including most recently in Legal 500 UK 2023 as "excellent, gives you confidence you are in safe hands, won’t sit on the fence; understands and appreciates the commercial perspective and will try to come up with a solution" and in 2022 as “accessible, knowledgeable, pragmatic and very client friendly. One of the more user-friendly partners in the City and great to partner with on large complex deals“.