Sally Evans

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Overview

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.

Sally has been named as one of Global Competition Review’s “40 Under 40” in their quadrennial survey of the top young antitrust lawyers in the world (2020). Who’s Who Legal recognized Sally as a Thought Leader in ‘Competition’ (2022). Chambers and Partners have ranked Sally as “Up and Coming” (2022) and describe her as “very approachable and knowledgeable”. The Legal 500 has recognised Sally as an “emerging talent” and “outstanding lawyer” and has listed her as a Next Generation EU and Competition Partner for five consecutive years.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Sally has practiced competition law in Brussels and Beijing and also gained experience in-house.

Sally regularly represents pro bono clients in unpaid wages claims cases.

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Thought Leadership

Publications 

Competition Law Update, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, November 2020

Competition Law Update, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, June 2020 

“Canon/Toshiba Medical Systems: questions raised on the legitimacy of warehousing and further enforcement of gun jumping”, Competition Law Journal, Volume 19/Issue 1., 2020

Competition Law Update, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, March 2020 

Competition Law Update, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, November 2019 

Competition Law Update, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, June 2019

Competition Law Update, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, March 2019

"Ripples in the Water: How Will Competition Law Apply to Pools Going Forwards?" The Chartered Insurance Institute Journal, April–May 2017

"Insurers Face Increased Costs Following Block Exemption’s Demise", Insurance Day, 12 May 2017

"Pooling Arrangements in the Insurance Industry Following Expiry of the Insurance Block Exemption Regulation", Competition Law Journal, Volume 16/ Issue 2., 2017

Press Mentions

“China outbound M&A report part five: looking to Europe,” International Financial Law Review, April 29, 2022

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2008, Admitted to Practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales
  • Brussels (A List)

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Education

  • King's College LondonPost-Graduate Diploma in EU Competition LawDistinction2009
  • Oxford Institute of Legal PracticePost-Graduate Diploma in Legal PracticeDistinction2005
  • St. Anne's College, University of OxfordJurisprudence (Law)2004