Susannah Sheppard > Keystone Law > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Susannah Sheppard

020 7152 6550 susannah.sheppard@keystonelaw.co.uk

Work Department

EU and competition.

Position

Susannah advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition law and has regulatory expertise in technology, travel, air transport, financial services and telecommunications. She has considerable experience in both the public and private sectors, having worked for the European Commission, the UK Cabinet Office and the European Court of Justice prior to working in private practice. Susannah’s areas of expertise are 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 dominant market position; copyright and intellectual property issues relating to competition law; competition compliance programmes and training; strategic and behavioural competition and regulatory advice; competition law strategy and compliance in the context of standardisation; media and telecommunications and travel and air transport. Susannah’s key achievements include: (i) acting for Guardian Care Homes on the competition law aspects of the leading libor case against Barclays (ii) acting for or advising clients on competition follow on damages cases including air cargo and LCD (iii) defending an equities trading exchange against claims of abuse of dominant market position; (iv) advising and representing client in relation to OFT investigation into outdoor advertising; (v) advising major on-line services provider on competition compliance, and on the use of competition law in commercial negotiations with dominant suppliers; (vi) advising UK regulatory authority on the application of EU and UK regulation to the fulfilment of its core regulatory and review functions; (vii) advising on and project managing the regulatory approval process for the EEA business expansion of a major multinational travel provider; (vii) advising on and restructuring the EEA regulatory licensing requirements for a major on-line services provider.

Career

Trained Cabinet Office, qualified 1998. Theodore Goddard, 1998-2003; Addleshaw Goddard, 2003-05; Keystone Law, 2006-07; Kemp Little, 2008-11; Keystone Law, 2011.

Languages

French and Spanish.

Education

Oxford University (LLM Hons); Université Libre de Bruxelles (maîtrise, international relations); King’s College, London (post graduate diploma, economics for competition law).