KL MENNS
LL.B, LL.M., LL.M.
KL Menns is an international legal consultant and has been working as a legal academic, practitioner and advisor since 2002. She is a US and EU trade regulation and competition lawyer versed in the language, substance and procedural aspects of her areas of expertise.
She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in European Competition Law (King’s College, University of London, United Kingdom), LL.M. Degree in Trade Regulation Law, Specialist Degree in Antitrust Law (New York University (NYU) School of Law, United States of America), LL.M. Degree in Corporate and Commercial Law (University of the West Indies, Barbados), Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (University of the West Indies, Barbados)
She undertakes, on behalf of her clients in the private sector, the exercise of the rights of defense in cases on both sides of the Atlantic, including cases brought under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and US Federal Antitrust Cases. Her daily work places her in a position to analyse worldwide product and geographic markets in industries ranging from agricultural biotechnology and pharmaceuticals to airline and airport infrastructure, telecommunications, energy markets and mining of precious metals. She has undertaken defense work on behalf of several multinational companies including Monsanto, Microsoft, Samsung, Johnson and Johnson, Emirates Airline, and Xstrata Plc.
Ms. Menns also advises several governments and/or government agencies on competition and trade-related policies and economic affairs including governments and/or government representatives from the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Gambia and Sierra Leone. Ms. Menns also works as a trade-related economic affairs advisor and competition law consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). More recently Ms. Menns has designed the strategic and methodological approach for the Turks and Caicos’ legislative review and drafting programme.