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Nicole heads Oxera\u2019s State Aid and Subsidy Control practice, and is based in Oxera\u2019s Brussels office. She is an expert in the field of economic and financial analysis in the state aid and subsidy control context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She leads Oxera\u2019s advice to clients on economic and financial issues associated with a diverse range of state aid matters across sectors including energy, financial services, pharmaceuticals, post and telecoms, transport and sports infrastructure. Her advice covers a broad range of economic and financial issues in state aid cases relating to assessments of the market economy operator principle (MEOP), the application of state aid rules for services of general economic interest (SGEI), and the compatibility of aid more generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She provides advice on state aid compliance, and advises beneficiaries, complainants and member states during notifications to, and investigations by, the European Commission and in state aid litigation cases in front of the courts. In particular, she has taken part in General Court hearings on state aid matters on several occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole teaches the state aid module on the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics for Competition Law at King\u2019s College London. Nicole has a wide breadth of experience in the field of state aid, and regularly speaks at, and chairs, state aid events. She publishes on state aid matters in the leading competition journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole was named Economist of the Year at the Global Competition Review Awards in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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