Susan Breen > Mishcon de Reya LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Susan Breen
Work Department
Betting & Gaming
Position
Susan Breen is a Partner in the firm’s top ranked Betting & Gaming Group in the Innovation Department. Susan’s practice spans both corporate and M&A, as well as regulatory and commercial advice with over 20 years’ experience acting for gambling industry clients. A particular strength of Susan’s practice is her ability to blend her corporate knowledge with regulatory, infrastructure, and compliance advice to many of the industry’s leading operators, service providers and business owners both in the UK and internationally.
Much of Susan’s work is international with a particular focus on helping clients buy or build businesses in an environment that has become increasingly complex from a legal, regulatory and tax perspective. She has been involved in many of the sector’s high profile and innovative transactions over the last two decades.
Clients include significant operators, regulators, governments, affiliate marketing groups, games developers and service providers. Susan has been a senior trusted adviser for many years to certain high profile clients and governments in other jurisdictions. She has extensive experience of advising operators and their key shareholders on the risk management and issues facing operators in regulated or yet to be regulated markets. In addition to advising established businesses, Susan has also advised new entrants to the online gambling market in the UK, Africa and the US.
Susan is regarded as a pre-eminent lawyer in the betting and gaming sector by Legal 500, Chambers UK and Chambers Global, particularly for “servicing clients on complex, cutting-edge transactions, providing the regulatory overlay which makes her skillset so unique in this sector“. Clients say that her “industry knowledge and understanding is unparalleled“, “she cuts to the crux of the issues and gets on with it” and that she “really goes the extra mile for her clients“.
Career
Trainee, Orpen Franks Solicitors, Dublin
Qualified Ireland 1985
Qualified England and Wales 1991
Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Partner, Mishcon de Reya 2004
Directorships:
Waterman Chemicals Ltd (dormant)
ISC Gaming Plc Legal editor ‘The Practitioner’s Corporate Finance Manual’ (published by CCH for ICAEAW)
Languages
Conversational French.
Memberships
Susan is a general member of the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL).
Education
Our Lady’s Templeogue, Dublin; University College, Dublin (1980 BA Hons)
College of Law, Dublin (1981-84 professional qualification)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
(Hall of Fame)Noted for its ‘practical approach and thorough knowledge of the industry’, Mishcon de Reya LLP‘s varied offering includes regulatory projects, tax and structuring advice and private and public company M&A. The practice has seen an increase in contentious instructions from clients who wish to challenge decisions made by regulators. Nick Nocton spearheads the team’s offering; his expertise spans digital assets and jurisdictional reviews of the legal and regulatory risks in various territories. Susan Breen is praised for her ‘innovative legal advice’ on issues such as cross-border commercial arrangements. Stuart McMaster is well placed to advise on data protection and data sharing matters, while Niki Stephens specialises in assisting B2C and B2B clients with regulatory matters. Tom Whitton is singled out for his commercial contracts advice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Gaming and betting London > Crime, fraud and licensing
- Hall of Fame London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employers
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Private prosecutions
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Real estate > Planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Health and safety
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Court of protection