Susannah Sheppard

emphasis

• EU and UK merger clearances, acquisitions and joint ventures
• Market investigations and competition enquiries
• Anti-competitive agreements and practices (such as price fixing, market sharing, information exchanges, cartels and restrictive practices)
• Abuse of a dominant market position
• Copyright and intellectual property issues
• Competition compliance programmes and training
• Strategic and behavioural competition and regulatory advice
• Media and telecommunications
• Travel and air transport
• Financial services
• Public procurement

Representative Work

• Advising a major on line services provider on competition compliance, and on the use of competition law in commercial negotiations with dominant suppliers
• Advising a UK regulatory authority on the application of EU and UK regulation to the fulfilment of its core regulatory and review functions
• Advising on and project managing the regulatory approval process for the EEA business expansion of a major multinational travel provider
• Advising on and restructuring the EEA regulatory licensing requirements of a major online services provider
• Advising a data systems technology company on competition compliance and on the use of competition law to improve commercial negotiating positions

About

Susannah advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition law and has regulatory expertise in travel, air transport, financial services, telecommunications and public procurement.

Susannah has considerable experience in both the public and private sector having worked for the European Commission, the UK Cabinet Office and the European Court of Justice prior to going into private practice.

Susannah became a Competition and Regulatory partner at Addleshaw Goddard in 2002. From 2006 to 2007 she worked directly for a number of clients before joining Kemp Little to head up its Competition and Regulatory practice at the beginning of 2008.

Qualifying as a barrister in 1995 in England and converting to a solicitor in 2001, Susannah gained her law degree from Oxford University (LLM Hons.) and a Maîtrise in International Relations from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Susannah speaks French and Spanish.