Aurora Luoma

Ms. Luoma advises multinational clients across a range of industries, including the semiconductor, technology, energy, chemical, financial services and retail sectors. Ms. Luoma also advises on antitrust investigations (including cartels and abuse of dominance), state aid law and vertical agreements, as well as the application of U.K. national security rules. In recognition of her work, she has been repeatedly named a Competition Future Leader by Who's Who Legal.

Ms. Luoma’s representations include advising:

• Adobe Inc. on the antitrust aspects of its proposed (but terminated) US$20 billion acquisition of Figma, Inc.
• Castik Capital S.a.r.L. and other shareholders of Waterlogic plc on the antitrust aspects of its US$1.45 billion acquisition by Culligan plc
• Central Group and SIGNA Holding GmbH on their US$5.3 billion acquisition of Selfridges & Co. Limited from the Weston Family
• Corebridge Financial Inc. on the US$561 million (£460 million) sale of AIG Life Limited, its U.K. life insurance business, to Aviva plc
• Electronic Arts Inc. on:
  • its US$1.4 billion acquisition of Playdemic Ltd. from Warner Bros. Games and AT&T Inc
  • its US$1.2 billion acquisition of Codemasters Group Holdings plc
• Elon Musk on his US$44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Inc.
• Gyroscope Therapeutics Limited on its acquisition by Novartis AG for US$800 million upfront and additional milestone payments of up to US$700 million
• HP Inc. on:
  • the antitrust aspects of its US$3.3 billion acquisition of Poly
  • its US$425 million acquisition of HyperX gaming peripherals business from Kingston
• Intact Financial Corporation and its subsidiary Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Limited on their US$648 million acquisition of the brokered commercial lines operations of Direct Line Insurance Group plc
• Intel Corporation on its proposed (but terminated) US$5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor
• Konecranes Plc on the global antitrust aspects of its proposed (but terminated) merger with Cargotec Corporation
• Nasdaq, Inc. on the US$190 million carve-out sale of its U.S. fixed-income business, Nasdaq Fixed Income, to an affiliate of Tradeweb Markets Inc.
• NCR Corporation on its US$1.7 billion acquisition of Cardtronics plc
• SK hynix, Inc. on its US$9 billion acquisition of the NAND memory and storage business of Intel Corporation
• Xilinx, Inc. on its US$50 billion acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.