RPC is set to defend Google in another class action launched against it in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) over alleged anti-competitive practices regarding its UK Google Play Store. Geradin Partners has launched the £1.04bn claim on behalf of class representative and competition law expert Professor Barry Rodger, who represents UK Android app developers. Rodger […]
BCLP is set to defend International Distribution Services (IDS), Royal Mail’s parent group, from an £878.5m class action in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The claim, backed by litigation funder Asertis, was officially filed on 29 May by Lewis Silkin on behalf of 290,477 retail customers, marking Lewis Silkin’s first foray into the opt-out class […]
Kirkland & Ellis has turned its attention to Simmons & Simmons, hiring the firm’s head of competition in London. Partner Satyen Dhana, who held the role of head of competition, antitrust and trade in London at Simmons, is making the move. He joined Simmons in 2018, prior to which he was a partner at CMS […]
A collection of magic circle, US, Norwegian and Scottish firms are lining up to defend salmon producers in the retail action brought by Stephenson Harwood on behalf of Asda, Iceland, Marks & Spencer, Ocado, International Seafoods, Morrisons, Aldi and Co-op. The £675m case was first filed last February in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) against […]
London Metal Exchange back in court over $12bn nickel trade cancellation After the world’s leading centre for trading in industrial metals, the London Metal Exchange, cancelled nickel trades valued up to $12bn following an unexpected price spike in 2022, US hedge fund Elliott Associates brought a judicial review against the LME. The claimants, Elliott Associates […]
Orange juice cartel squeezes into Court of Appeal Pogust Goodhead is representing 1,600 orange growers, 22 companies and the Brazillian Association of Citrus Growers in a one-day hearing at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday (2 July) in a suit against the estate of Brazil’s “Orange King”, José Luis Cutrale, who died in 2022. The […]
Some of the world’s largest salmon producers are being hit with a new class action, alleging unlawful collusion to increase salmon prices for consumers. Simmons & Simmons is representing class representative Waterside, a special purpose vehicle represented by Anne Heal, former OpenReach managing director of strategy and regulatory affairs group director at BT. The claim […]
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has handed down a judgment that time bars almost a third of the infringement period in the Merricks/Mastercard class action, as well as a fifth of the total claim, according to the defendant’s lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Class representative Walter Merricks’ claim had been brought to cover the period between […]
This week on Spotlight, we’re taking a closer look at a rapidly expanding disputes boutique, which has followed the blueprint laid out clearly by Quinn Emanuel’s John Quinn.
Specialist class action firm Geradin Partners is filing a £2.5bn lawsuit against Amazon to rival Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s £1bn claim, which was filed last week. Geradin’s opt-out claim will be brought by Professor Andreas Stephan, a competition law scholar and the head of the University of East Anglia Law School, on behalf of UK […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has lost its UK head of competition, a year and a half after he joined the firm. Lambros Kilaniotis left the firm in April, having joined Quinn from RPC (where he was head of competition) in January 2023 to co-head Quinn’s UK competition practice with partner Kate Vernon. In a […]
Competition specialist Hausfeld has lost its co-instruction mandate on Justin Gutmann’s boundary fares class action. Since 22 February, Charles Lyndon has been the sole representation for the class representative as the boundary fares case rolls through the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Hausfeld had been co-instructed alongside Charles Lyndon on the Gutmann claims throughout the dispute, […]