Susan has extensive experience in a variety of EU competition related areas. She has particular experience obtaining merger clearances from the OFT and European Commission, handling investigations by the OFT and the Competition Commission, and the drafting and reviewing of agreements and practices for compliance with competition law generally.
Credentials
- Provident Financial in relation to the National Consumer Council’s ‘super-complaint’ before the OFT and Competition Commission regarding the home credit industry
- WH Smith on the £223 million sale of Hodder Headline, the UK-based book publisher, to Hachette Livre SA, the French book publisher and subsidiary of Paris listed Lagardere SCA and on its submissions to the competition commission in relation to Waterstones acquisition of Ottakar's
- Johnson Matthey on the £260 million acquisition of the Synetix Division of ICI
- Foster’s Group Limited on its $2.35 billion bid for Southcorp, the Australian wine group
- Harrods on the sale of Kurt Geiger
- Capita Education Services in respect of a Chapter II Competition Act investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) into a third party’s right to access to interface information for Capita's SIMS software
- Smiths News in relation to its activities as a newspaper wholesaler and related competition law issues