Kim Dietzel
Herbert Smith Freehills (London)
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Kim Dietzel has been working at Herbert Smith Freehills since 1999. She acts on the full spectrum of competition law issues across a range of sectors (including financial services, consumer goods and online markets). She has a particular focus on the aviation industry, where she also provides highly specialised regulatory advice. Kim Dietzel has a wealth of experience in relation to multi-jurisdictional cartel and leniency matters, and is one of the few competition practitioners with UK criminal cartel experience. In relation to merger control she has acted on a number of high profile appeals before the EU Courts, as well as on complex merger control investigations and remedy negotiations. In recent years, solicitor-advocate Kim has developed a leading private enforcement practice, acting in particular for defendants in precedent-setting follow-on damages cases, including appearing as an advocate in the CAT. Kim Dietzel has been confirmed by Global Competition Review (GCR) as one of the "top 100 women in antitrust".
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1912 Bulletin
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In its judgment of 6 October 2021, following a reference by the Provincial Court of Barcelona, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) held that a victim of anti-competitive conduct is entitled to seek damages from the subsidiary (not referred to in the infringement decision) of an infringing (...)
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On 18 August 2021 the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) approved the first application for a collective proceedings order (CPO) under the UK’s competition class action regime introduced in 2015, in Walter Hugh Merricks CBE v Mastercard Incorporated and Others. The application was initially (...)
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On 26 January 2021 the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) published a notice of a standalone competition damages claim (brought under section 47A of the Competition Act 1998) by Kerilee Investments, a metal trader, against the International Tin Association, a UK based trade association. The (...)
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Earlier today the Supreme Court handed down its hotly-anticipated judgment regarding the certification of an opt-out competition collective action brought by Walter Merricks against Mastercard. The claim is seeking £14bn in damages on behalf of some 46.2 million UK consumers, in respect of (...)
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On 11 December 2020 the Supreme Court handed down a very significant judgment relating to the certification of a £14bn opt-out competition collective action brought by Walter Merricks against Mastercard, in respect of losses alleged to have resulted from the use of anti-competitive multilateral (...)
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In its judgment of 16 April 2019 the Court of Appeal overturned the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (CAT) decision refusing certification in the MasterCard collective action claim and remitted the case back to the CAT for a re-hearing. The CAT’s refusal to certify the claim and grant a Collective (...)
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Already, 2017 has seen significant developments in the UK’s competition litigation landscape. Most recently, last Friday the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) allowed the first ’class action’ brought under the new competition law collective redress regime to continue, at least for now, providing (...)
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On 14 Jul the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) issued its judgment in the damages claim brought by Sainsbury’s against MasterCard. The CAT found that MasterCard’s setting of UK multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) for its payment cards infringed the Article 101 TFEU/Chapter I prohibition on (...)
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1. Introduction and overview The European Commission (the "Commission") on 11 June 2013 adopted a package of measures aimed at facilitating competition law private actions in the EU. The package consists of: A proposal for a Directive on competition law private damages actions in the EU (...)
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On 25 April 2013 the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (ERR Bill) received Royal Assent. The proposals for reform of the UK competition regime, published by the Government in March 2012, are set out in Part 3 and Part 4 of the new ERR Act and are expected to come fully into force in April (...)
