Susan Hankey is a partner in CMS Cameron McKenna’s competition team.
Susan advises on competition, merger, state aid and public procurement issues across many industry sectors. She manages a team of 10 specialist competition lawyers in London and is also responsible for some 25 colleagues practising competition law in our offices in Central and Eastern Europe.
Sue represents clients at the Office of Fair Trading, the Competition Commission, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European Commission. Susan spent three years in Brussels in the 1990s and is now a key member of our CMS EU Law Office project there. She has worked extensively in Europe, notably in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. Susan's clients include consumer products companies, financial services organisations, infrastructure providers, oil companies and contractors, government departments and energy sector bodies.
Legal 500 describes Susan as “experienced and extremely bright” and commends her “succinct and easily understood” advice.
Relevant experience include advising:
- A range of companies on merger notifications under the European Merger Regulation, the Enterprise Act and in multi-jurisdictional acquisitions and joint ventures
- Various oil and gas companies on the UKCS, in the Ukraine and in Russia on merger clearance, long term supply contracts, on access to and use of infrastructure, on joint selling and purchasing, on acquisitions and on miscellaneous competition and procurement issues
- Many companies on their commercial activities in relation to the prohibitions on anticompetitive agreements and abuse of a dominant position
- On competition compliance programmes and training, including preparation for investigations, for companies in the consumer products, utility and financial services industries
- On responding to dawn raids and other competition investigations, for example representing a major construction group in a dawn raid, leniency application and continuing phases in an industry-wide construction cartel, advising an FMCG retail chain through an investigation and in the appeal tribunal, dealing with dawn raids by the European Commission
- Companies in acquisitions through privatisation in various Central European jurisdictions, in particular in the financial services, transport (airports) and energy industries, on merger control, procurement, state aid and competition advice
- On a variety of State aid issues in the UK and in Europe, including in relation to the European Commission’s late 2008/2009 new guidance and decisions in response to the financial crisis
- Various public and utility bodies, in particular Royal Mail, heritage organisations, and energy companies, in relation to tendering procedures, drafting of notices, running a competition, scoring prequalification and bidding documents, carrying out non-discriminatory negotiations. These projects tend to be high-profile and complex, having a strategic value and sometimes a national importance
Education:
King's College, University of London. Edinburgh University. King's College, Cambridge. College of Law, London. |