‘Phenomenal at all levels’, Matrix Chambers’ expertise covers the relationship between the application of EU law to areas as broad as competition, immigration and asylum, financial services regulation, and environmental law. With ‘an unbelievable capacity to work on a huge range of cases’ David Wolfe KC was instructed in R (Boswell) v The Secretary of State for Transport, a complex environmental challenge that raised pertinent questions on the application of the EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive at a domestic level. Clear, forceful and convincing’, Suzanne Rab joined in 2025, with recent EU law matters including acting for Unichem in Unichem v Servier, one of the first follow-on damages claims in the area of competition litigation arising from a judgement in the EU Court of Justice.
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Professor Suzanne Rab has over two decades of wide experience of EU law, competition law, international trade law and regulatory law. Suzanne’s practice has a particular focus on the interface between innovation, trade and economic regulation. She acts in disputes involving governments, regulators and businesses across the regulated sectors including in the financial services, energy/environmental, healthcare/ pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, TMT and natural resources sectors.
Suzanne has complementary experience at the interface between intellectual property rights and competition law, as well as expertise in information rights and data protection. In private practice as a solicitor prior to joining the bar, she has held positions at leading international regulation and trade practices. She has also had roles as partner and head of regulatory practice with a leading US law firm and as director at PricewaterhouseCoopers working within its strategy, economics, and regulatory teams.
Suzanne maintains an active academic practice concurrently with her barrister practice. She is a Professor at Brunel University, a law lecturer at Oxford University and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London (IPR and competition). Suzanne is an expert panel member of the UK Regulators Network (UKRN), a panel member of the Office for the Internal Market (OIM) and a non-executive board member of the Press Recognition Panel (PRP).
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