Nicole heads Oxera’s State Aid and Subsidy Control practice. Based in Oxera’s Brussels office, she leads Oxera’s 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. Nicole has significant experience undertaking economic and financial analysis to advise clients on state aid compliance, as well as during notifications to, and investigations by, the Commission, in addition to state aid cases in front of the courts. Nicole also teaches the state aid module on the postgraduate diploma in Economics for Competition Law at King’s College London.