Susanne Zuehlke is partner in the Brussels office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm's Global Antitrust and Competition Practice. She is a German and New York qualified lawyer and is registered as a foreign lawyer with the Brussels bar. Ms. Zuehlke has been practicing competition and trade law in Brussels, Berlin and Frankfurt since 1999. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins in June 2002, she worked as associate in the Competition and Trade Group of Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer in Brussels and Berlin. She is fluent in both German and English and speaks French.
Ms. Zuehlke advises clients on all aspects of global merger control. She frequently represents clients in merger control proceedings before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office and coordinates global merger filings on behalf of global companies.
In addition, Ms. Zuehlke advises clients in global cartel investigations, in particular with regard to EU and German antitrust law. Typical fields are for instance compliance programs, emergency response to dawn raids, document production as well as the representation of clients in all phases of an antitrust investigation. She also advises companies on the implications of the European and German antitrust laws for certain agreements and business practices.
Ms. Zuehlke also advises clients on all aspects of EU State aid law as well as the application of the EU trade laws (anti-dumping/anti-subsidy) and represents clients in appeals brought in the European Courts in Luxembourg.
Susanne Zuehlke was named one of the top 40 antitrust lawyers under 40 in the world in the recent survey by Global Competition Review (GCR, May 2008). Global Competition Review’s “International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers” has recognized her as a leading practitioner in her field and she has been recommended by Legal500 for EU and competition law. In the JUVE Handbook 2009/2010, the leading German reference to business lawyers, Susanne Zuehlke is named a “frequently recommended” attorney for Antitrust.
She frequently publishes articles on issues of EU competition law and is a member of the American Bar Association and the German-American Lawyers Association.