Susan A. Laws

is co-head of the firm's London office and serves on Duane Morris' Executive Committee. Ms. Laws focuses her practice on business law and finance, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital financings. She has worked in house in the engineering, automotive and insurance sectors as well as in private practice.

Ms. Laws is director of Motors Secretaries Limited, a GM-owned corporation, and acts as its nominee to more than 50 U.K.-based GM venture capital organizations.

A frequent lecturer on the topic of mergers and acquisitions, Ms. Laws is one of the few solicitors in the U.K. to hold a master's degree in business administration. She is a 1977 graduate of Southampton University and an MBA graduate of Nottingham Law School.

Experience

•Duane Morris
- Partner, 2000-present
•Geisler & Laws, London, England
- Partner, 1996-2000
•Rakisons, London, England
- Partner, 1989-1996
•Reynolds Johnson & Green (formerly legal department of Alexander Howden plc), London, England
- Partner, 1984-1989 (seconded as General Counsel and Company Secretary to Iveco and Fiat)
- Corporate Lawyer, 1981-1984
•William Moss plc, Hemel Hempstead, England
- In-house lawyer 1980-1981
•Bridges Sawtell, London, England
- Articles of Clerkship, 1978-1980

Civic and Charitable Activities

•Mass Challenge Judge 2015
•Volunteer for UK Veterans Charity
•Bellingdon & Asheridge Village Association
•Pro bono admissions appeals at school and local government level

Honors and Awards

•Listed in Best Lawyers for Venture Capital and Corporate Finance, 2014-2017
•Listed in UK Super Lawyers, 2013

Board Memberships

•Director, Motor Secretaries Limited, a GM-owned corporation and acts as its nominee to more than 50 U.K.-based GM venture capital organizations
•Certagent Limited

Selected Speaking Engagements/Publications

Selected Speaking Engagements

• The Great Post-Brexit Debate, Association for Corporate Growth Seminar, September 2016
• Business and Asset Acquisitions, Seminar, April 2015
• Identifying, Protecting and Exploring Conference
• Sensors in Medicine, Royal Geographic Society, March 2015
• Horizon 2020 - Introduction to EU Grant Funding for R&D, Life Sciences Seminar, February 2015
• Tech Start Ups - Structure and Funding Conference, Imperial College, March 2014
• Life Cycle of a Joint Venture, Seminar, June 2013
• EU Employment Law for US Financial Services Companies, Conference, September 2012
• Financial Fraud - Prevention and Detection, Seminar, June 2012
• Legal Structure of a Joint Venture, Doing a deal to buy a business and assets, Managing Joint Venture Investments, Exit Strategies- going concern sales and prepack sales, Conference presentations, March 2011
• UK Law for US FSA Regulated Companies, Chicago 2010
• Directors Duties in the UK after the Companies Act 2006, Conference 2010.

Selected Publications

•Quoted in FinBuzz, Optimism reigns supreme at Great Post-Brexit Debate, October 2016
•Quoted in Philly.com, In Brexit, Potential Opportunity as well as Problems, July 1, 2016
•Quoted in The Deal Pipeline, Pensions ruling complicates U.K. business sales, July 2012
•Quoted in Reuters, Troubled Kodak faces UK pension woes, January 2012.