Leading international law firm Clifford Chance today announces that Sue Hinchliffe will join the firm as Partner in the London office on 14 June 2021. Sue joins from world energy leader, General Electric (GE), providing a significant boost to the firm’s global Antitrust and Corporate offering.
Sue Hinchliffe, Partner, comments: ‘I am delighted to be joining Clifford Chance, having experienced first-hand the high calibre and innovative mindset of antitrust legal talent from across the firm through working collaboratively with a number of offices during my time at General Electric. The global platform that the firm has established, combined with the leading lawyers and cutting edge antitrust workload makes this move a perfect alignment with my experience and career ambitions.’
Sue Hinchliffe joins the Clifford Chance Antitrust practice, bringing expertise and experience from a long-standing career advising on antitrust matters. She previously joined GE in 2016 as Global Executive Counsel Competition Law & Policy, working extensively on competition and antitrust across a large number of jurisdictions. She brings wide-ranging sector expertise, having supported GE’s aviation, power, healthcare and renewables businesses. Prior to joining GE she honed over 12 years’ experience as a leading antitrust partner with the London and Brussels offices of a US law firm.
Greg Olsen, UK Head of Antitrust at Clifford Chance comments: ‘The antitrust challenges our clients are facing are simultaneously accelerating and becoming ever more complex, making deep market knowledge and investment in the team essential. We are delighted to welcome Sue to the team to further strengthen our global client offering. Her diversity of experience and proven success in this field is immensely valuable and will cement our position as the leading go-to firm for market insight’
Sharis Pozen, Co-Chair of Clifford Chance’s Global Antitrust Practice, comments: ‘Sue’s significant in-house and private practice experience brings fresh perspective and global expertise to the firm as we undertake more investigatory and merger related matters than ever before. Her reputation, in the UK, Brussels, the US, and internationally as a highly skilled lawyer brings a significant boost to the global Antitrust team and we look forward to welcoming her.”
Clifford Chance has a global Antitrust practice with over 160 lawyers to support clients on their most complex and important matters across the key hubs of Europe, the UK, Asia/Pacific and the US. The team works together to solve multinational antitrust issues, including those arising in merger control, dominance and cartel proceedings, market investigations and sector inquiries, and state aid and public procurement matters.
Clifford Chance has continued significantly to invest in its Antitrust practice across a number of key jurisdictions, most recently with the hire of Cecilio Madero, former Deputy Director-General of DG Competition and with the partner promotions of Ashwin van Rooijen (Brussels) and Dimitri Slobodenjuk (Duesseldorf) in May 2021, Jennifer Storey (London) and John Friel (New York) in 2020, and Yong Bai (Beijing) and Samantha Ward (London) in recent years. The London team was further strengthened this week by the return of Daniel Schwarz who has rejoined after working for the past three years on competition policy matters with the IMF. In addition to the hire of Sue Hinchliffe from GE, lateral hiring at Clifford Chance over recent years has boosted our client offering and bench of experts with senior partners Peter Mucchetti from the US Department of Justice (2020), Sharis Pozen from GE (2019), Michael Dietrich from Herbert Smith (2018), David Tayar from Willkie Farr & Gallagher (2017) and Nelson Jung from the UK Competition and Markets Authority (2016) joining the fold.
Source: www.cliffordchance.com
