White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Suzanne Innes-Stubb

Practice Experience

Suzanne Innes-Stubb has practiced EU law in Brussels since 1999 and advises clients primarily on EU and UK competition, merger and data protection/privacy law.

She gives EC competition law advice to companies in a broad range of industries on licensing and distribution agreements, compliance programs, cartels and investigations by the European Commission.

Ms. Innes-Stubb has been involved in obtaining EU regulatory clearance in numerous merger cases, including UGC’s acquisition of Noos, the largest French cable operator, Abbott’s acquisition of BASF’s pharmaceutical business, the setting up of a joint venture by Toshiba and Samsung Electronics Co. and the acquisition by Celestica of the electronic manufacturing services company MSL.

In the UK, Ms. Innes-Stubb has advised on market investigations by the Competition Commission, and merger law requirements and notifications in a number of cases, including the sale by 3M of its distribution business for asthma devices to IVAX and the acquisition by UBS of ABN-AMRO’s global futures and options trading business.

Ms. Innes-Stubb also advises on EU and UK data protection law, including the development of compliance programs, employment issues (including problems arising in the context of international investigations), cross-border transfers, email marketing, the use of subscriber data, the implementation of whistle-blowing hotlines and the implications of mergers and acquisitions.

She has particular experience of advising clients in the fields of communications, pharmaceuticals, electronics manufacturing, the rolling stock industry, publishing and consumer goods.

Prior to joining White & Case in Brussels, Ms. Innes-Stubb was a lawyer for the UK Government.

Bars and Courts
Brussels Bar (E list), 2002
Solicitor of England and Wales, 1997

Education
LLM, College of Europe, Bruges, 1995
Legal Practice Diploma, College of Law, London, 1994
BSc, University of Surrey, 1992

Publications
Ms. Innes-Stubb is a regular speaker on data protection issues and has published articles on data protection, the exhaustion of trademarks in the EU and competition law cases in the UK. Recent articles include the following:
Co-author, "A Tale of Two Sector Inquiries: Comparing and Contrasting Experiences in the UK and EU", Global Competition Policy, November 2008 (1)
Co-author, "The UK Office of Fair Trading imposes its highest ever fine and applies leniency in the course of civil and criminal law proceedings (British Airways)", e-Competitions, October 2007-I
Co-author, "The OFT uses for the first time home search powers for a criminal investigation into a suspected cartel (‘Marine hoses cartel')", e-Competitions, Criminal Antitrust-II
"The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal awards for the first time ever interim damages in an abuse of dominant position case on the drugs market (Healthcare at Home/Genzyme)", e-Competitions, December 2006-I.
"Whistle-Blowing Hotlines under EU Data Protection Law", BNA, Inc. Privacy & Security Law Report, July 3, 2006
Co-author, "The Office of Fair Trading issues interim measures direction pending completion of investigation for alleged predatory pricing and exclusionary price discrimination of the London Metal Exchange (LME)", e-Competitions, March 2006-II
Co-author, "Personal Data Transfers out of the European Economic Area: A Look at Standard Contractual Clauses v. Binding Corporate Rules", BNA, Inc. Privacy & Security Law Report, December 19, 2005
"France's whistle-blowing hotlines: new guidelines from the CNIL", Privacy Laws & Business, December 16, 2005
"Alleged abuse of a dominant position contrary to Article 82 EC and Section 18 Competition Act 1998: whether any objective justification for a refusal to supply; interim injunction preventing termination of supply pending full trial (Attheraces a. o. v. British Horseracing Board)", e-Competitions, September 2005-I
"The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal holds that a retailer cannot circumvent UK nor EU competition law simply by passing information to competitors through the intermediary of a supplier (Argos - Littlewoods)", e-Competitions, February 2005

Languages
English
French
German
Swedish

Citizenship
British