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Kirkland & Ellis International LLP Offices
30 ST MARY AXE
LONDON
EC3A 8AF
England
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Sally Evans
Work Department
Antitrust and Competition
Position
Sally is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition team based in London. Her practice covers merger control, cartel investigations and compliance advice.
Sally has extensive experience in managing multi-jurisdictional merger reviews and regularly represents private equity clients, corporates and financial institutions before the European Commission and UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”). Sally is dual qualified in England & Wales and Brussels.
Career
2016 to present Kirkland & Ellis International LLP; 2010-2016 Linklaters LLP; 2006-2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Languages
French and Spanish
Education
King’s College London (Post-Graduate Diploma in EU Competition Law, 2009); Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, 2005); St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford (Jurisprudence (Law), 2004)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
(Leading partners)Characterised as the ‘best team in the market to coordinate complex multijurisdictional FDI notifications’, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP is well-versed in the full gamut of competition law matters, routinely instructing blue-chip clients hailing from the natural resources, TMT and financial services sectors. Practice head Alasdair Balfour handles the full spectrum of antitrust, foreign investment and national security and regulatory law, focusing especially on securing approvals for transactions. Sally Evans, a dual-qualified (English and Belgian) practitioner, has a particular strength in UK merger control, having played a lead role in several successful CMA remedy cases. Satyen Dhana joined the team from Simmons & Simmons. Former practice head Paula Riedel has retired.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- EU and competition London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Finance > High yield
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Industry focus > TMT
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium