Competition boutique Geradin Partners opens its doors in Paris today as the firm seeks to become a serious player in the French capital’s vibrant competition and litigation scenes. Opening on the same block as Freshfields in the heart of Paris’ 8e Arrondissement, Geradin has brought in competition litigator Marc Barennes from Bureau Brandeis with his […]
Sports Direct takes on Newcastle United in kit rights clash The Magpies are heading to the Competition Appeal Tribunal tomorrow (9 April) for one day in a claim brought by Sports Direct, as the high street sports equipment retailer challenges Newcastle United over its third-party kit sales policy. Sports Direct, represented by Travers Smith, alleges […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan client Phones 4u (P4u) has been granted permission to appeal its £1bn competition suit against some of the biggest mobile network providers, following a defeat in the High Court last year. The firm has succeeded in having eight grounds approved to take to appeal, including the allegation that an exchange […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison’s rapid growth in London is now translating to the Continent, as the firm has hired a Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner to launch an office in Brussels. Simpson Thacher partner Ross Ferguson will join the growing European partner base at Paul Weiss. Jason Glover, London office head at Simpson […]
With the class action market getting larger and larger, which defendant side firms have strategically prioritised this as an area they want to grow? We analysed which teams are winning the most mandates in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Mastercard’s lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have claimed that the latest judgment in the long-running class action means 90 per cent of the case brought by class representative Walter Merricks “fails factually.” The interchange fee collective action, brought by Merricks on behalf of 45.5 million UK Mastercard customers, is the first class action to have […]
Google class action returns to CAT for fourth CMC Google is back in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) this Friday for a fourth case management conference (CMC) in Elizabeth Coll’s long-running class action against the software behemoth. Coll, who is represented by Hausfeld, is representing a class of Android device users who have used the […]
Latham & Watkins and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton were called on by legacy client Whirlpool Corporation to handle a year-long transaction and CMA investigation on the company’s combination with Turkish appliance business Arçelik. After the deal’s announcement in January 2023, a merger inquiry was launched by the CMA to review potential competition concerns. Following […]
Following swiftly on from its hire of Linklaters’ competition head Nicole Kar, Paul Weiss is growing out its City practice with another new recruit. Antitrust expert Annie Herdman joins from Ropes & Gray, where she has been for two years. Prior to Ropes, she made partner at Kirkland & Ellis in 2019. Before that, she […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is set to hire another Linklaters partner to join its burgeoning London ranks, this time to grow the firm’s competition practice. Nicole Kar is understood to be moving having spent more than 20 years at Linklaters. Joining the magic circle firm in 2001, she was given the nod to […]
A competition-focused boutique launched by a former Covington & Burling partner will establish a third office in the new year, adding Amsterdam to its existing sites in Brussels and London. Geradin Partners, the firm launched by Damien Geradin who spent five years as a partner at Covington between 2010 and 2015, has hit Dutch firm […]
Today, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) heard the first amalgamation application of its kind, as two separate class representatives sought to merge their claims against Google, represented by Herbert Smith Freehills, to avoid a carriage dispute. Former director of Ofcom, Claudio Pollack, brought his claim against Google in November 2022. Humphries Kerstetter and Geradin Partners represented Pollack, […]