DGAP-News: Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP / Key word(s): Change of Personnel/Miscellaneous

2015-09-14 / 12:34

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Susanne Zuehlke joins Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner effective September 15, 2015. She will practice in the firm's Antitrust Group in Brussels and Frankfurt.

Susanne has substantial experience in global merger control for complex transactions, cartel investigations and the counseling of globally active clients on sophisticated antitrust matters. She advises clients in private equity and a wide range of industries including advertising, aerospace, chemicals, furniture retailing, manufacturing, mining and steel. She is recognized in Legal 500, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, Best Lawyers, JUVE and Global Competition Review's "Who's Who," and was twice included in GCR's list identifying the top global competition lawyers under the age of 40.

Susanne has more than 15 years of experience as an antitrust practitioner in Brussels and Germany, including as an antitrust partner at Latham & Watkins LLP in Brussels.

"I am very pleased to join Willkie Farr & Gallagher," said Susanne. "Willkie has a highly respected EU antitrust team in Brussels and Paris as well as a market-leading M&A and private equity team in Europe. Willkie's strong global platform on both the corporate and competition side will certainly be an asset to my current clients. I am also looking forward to working with Willkie's impressive roster of clients."
"Our clients will benefit from Susanne's significant experience with complex merger control and antitrust investigations. In particular, her deep familiarity with the requirements of private equity sponsors will be of great value to our private equity clients," commented Mario Schmidt, Managing Partner of the Frankfurt office.

Jacques-Philippe Gunther, Head of European Competition and Antitrust, added: "Our practice is internationally recognized for its successful involvement in some of the most important antitrust matters. The addition of Susanne's German and EU competition and antitrust practice expands our European presence and strengthens our growing antitrust practice in Brussels, which now consists of three partners, including Adrien Giraud and myself."

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is an elite international law firm of approximately 650 attorneys with offices in New York, Washington, Houston, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Milan and Rome. The firm is headquartered at 787 Seventh Avenue in New York, Tel.: 001 212 728 8000.
Frankfurt, September 14, 2015



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