Why choose our Competition Litigation lawyers?
We devise solutions to bring or defend any claim for proportionate cost. We specialise in large claims and have developed expertise in all procedural and substantive facets of such claims.
Procedurally,
we have extensive experience in managing the technological, legal and
confidentiality aspects of large disclosure exercises; engaging in
jurisdiction, limitation and other challenges that are only proportionate in
the largest claims; establishing the laws applicable to multinational claims;
and managing aggregated claims where multiple foreign laws apply.
Substantively,
we understand the legal criteria for establishing liability in standalone
claims; the economic principles to prove or disprove those criteria or to
assess damages; the methodologies available to economists to furnish these
proofs, and the factual evidence the economists need us to compile to support
their work.
Our ability to understand complex factual matrices is enhanced by our sector specialisms. Allegations of anticompetitive conduct can arise in any sector, but the most common areas include technology, financial services and life sciences, which represent three of Fieldfisher's four key sectors.
As a leading European law firm, we can provide direct assistance in 10 European jurisdictions. We are the founding member of the Competition Litigation Network of European firms specialising in antitrust damages actions.
For claimant-side work, funding is often desirable given the difficulty of obtaining a budget for unexpected expense and can be essential for cost sharing in group actions. Fieldfisher is highly unusual in offering FeeSolve, an internal solution which almost invariably offers a better return to clients than external funding.
The UK team is led by Richard Pike and Stephen Critchley in London and Stephen May in Birmingham. It has acted for Achilles in its abuse of dominance claim against Network Rail, for which it was awarded Competition Team of the Year 2022 at the Legal Business Awards. Its recent work includes three separate claims against the truck manufacturers' cartel and representing Euronet in its claim against MasterCard and Visa in relation to European ATM fees.
The German team is led by Sascha Dethof and Christian Bahr, and its recent experience includes follow-on litigation in the trucks, steel abrasives and car glass cartels. The Spanish team is led by Borja Martínez.
We have a large core team whose members qualified either as competition lawyers or litigators and have a dedicated focus on competition litigation.
The
core team will always lead a matter, but we can flex our capacity by drawing on
the firm's deep pool of pure competition lawyers and pure commercial litigators.
The Fieldfisher team provided invaluable and unflinching support throughout three years of extremely challenging litigation … [they] devised and executed a strategy that allowed us to protect our rights against an extremely large and well-resourced opponent determined to defend our claims … Fieldfisher deployed creativity, resilience and strategic thinking in equal measure to protect [our] future in the course of hard-fought litigation.
Key contacts
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London, England
- Email Richard
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London, England
- Email Stephen
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Birmingham, England
- +44 330 460 6684
- Email Stephen
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Düsseldorf, Germany
- +49 (0)211 950 749 0
- Email Dr Sascha
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Düsseldorf, Germany
- +49 (0)211 950 749 22
- Email Dr Christian
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Madrid, Spain
- +34 91 575 70 53
- Email Borja
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