Mishcon de Reya LLP

Betting & Gaming

Susan Breen is a Partner in the firm's top ranked Betting & Gaming Group in the Innovation Department.  Susan's practice spans both corporate and M&A, as well as regulatory and commercial advice with over 20 years' experience acting for gambling industry clients. A particular strength of Susan's practice is her ability to blend her corporate knowledge with regulatory, infrastructure, and compliance advice to many of the industry's leading operators, service providers and business owners both in the UK and internationally.

Much of Susan's work is international with a particular focus on helping clients buy or build businesses in an environment that has become increasingly complex from a legal, regulatory and tax perspective. She has been involved in many of the sector's high profile and innovative transactions over the last two decades.

Clients include significant operators, regulators, governments, affiliate marketing groups, games developers and service providers. Susan has been a senior trusted adviser for many years to certain high profile clients and governments in other jurisdictions. She has extensive experience of advising operators and their key shareholders on the risk management and issues facing operators in regulated or yet to be regulated markets. In addition to advising established businesses, Susan has also advised new entrants to the online gambling market in the UK, Africa and the US.

Susan is regarded as a pre-eminent lawyer in the betting and gaming sector by Legal 500, Chambers UK and Chambers Global, particularly for "servicing clients on complex, cutting-edge transactions, providing the regulatory overlay which makes her skillset so unique in this sector". Clients say that her "industry knowledge and understanding is unparalleled", "she cuts to the crux of the issues and gets on with it" and that she "really goes the extra mile for her clients".

Trainee, Orpen Franks Solicitors, Dublin

Qualified Ireland 1985

Qualified England and Wales 1991

Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

Partner, Mishcon de Reya 2004

Directorships:

Waterman Chemicals Ltd (dormant)

ISC Gaming Plc Legal editor ‘The Practitioner’s Corporate Finance Manual’ (published by CCH for ICAEAW)

Conversational French.

Susan is a general member of the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL).

Our Lady’s Templeogue, Dublin; University College, Dublin (1980 BA Hons)

College of Law, Dublin (1981-84 professional qualification)