Lesley Hannah joined Hausfeld’s London office as an Associate in May 2013 and now became a Partner. Lesley has a strong European and Competition law background and her principal focus is competition damages litigation. Lesley currently represents Deutsche Bahn and Metro de Madrid in their damages claim in relation to the carbon and graphite products cartel as well as a large number of claimants in the damages claim against British Airways in relation to the worldwide cartel in air freight surcharges.
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The Tribunal issued its combined permission to serve out of the jurisdiction judgment in Epic Games v Apple (the Apple Claim) and Epic Games v Google (the Google Claim) on 22 February 2021, declining permission for service on Apple Inc. and granting permission for service for a subset of (...)
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On 15th December, the European Commission announced a package of digital markets legislation intended to give the Commission the power to better regulate major online platforms and to protect European consumers and businessess for effectively: the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets (...)
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Almost exactly four years after the implementation deadline, the European Commission (the “EC”) has published a short report on 14 December 2020 on the implementation of its Directive 2014/104 (the “Damages Directive”) across the European Union (the “EU”). The primary aim of the Damages Directive (...)
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The Brexit “deal” may be done but the judgments of the CJEU continue to be relevant for competition damages claims in the UK. The pre-end of transition period judgment of the CJEU in C-59/19 Wikingerhof GmbH & Co. KG v Booking.com BV (Wikingerhof) of 24 November 2020 clarifies the (...)
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On 20 October 2020, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and 11 State Attorney-Generals filed a much anticipated complaint against Google for its unlawful monopolisation of the search and search advertising markets in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act (the Complaint). The Complaint is the (...)
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On 2 April, the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”) issued a judgment arising from a preliminary reference from the Hungarian Supreme Court concerning a 2009 decision by the Hungarian Competition Authority against Visa Europe Ltd (“Visa”), MasterCard Europe SA (“MasterCard”) and a number of (...)
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Introduction There is an emerging trend in competition damages cases in England for the majority of documents to be disclosed into so-called “confidentiality rings.” These restrictive confidentiality procedures can result, in certain instances, in the parties themselves being precluded from (...)
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Introduction From 12-14 February 2020, the European Union’s General Court (the “General Court”) heard Google’s appeal of the European Commission’s 27 June 2017 abuse of dominance decision pursuant to Article 102 TFEU (the “Decision”) involving on-line comparison shopping services (“CSSs”). A central (...)
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On 30 January 2020, the European Court of Justice released its judgment relating to a patent dispute between the pharmaceutical patent-holder, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and a generic drug maker concluding that originators and generics are in fact “potential competitors” if the generic drugmaker has (...)
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Introduction On 20 December 2019, the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) (the “Authority”) announced its finding that Google had abused its dominant position in the French market for search advertising through the operating rules applied by Google Ads (previously known as (...)
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On 14 March 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down an important judgment for victims of competition law infringements: ensuring that their fundamental right to compensation for losses caused by such infringements cannot be circumvented by the sale or dissolution of (...)
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Although cartels with a global reach are increasingly common, recent decisions from courts in both the United States and United Kingdom have narrowly interpreted the territorial scope of antitrust laws in both jurisdictions. In the United States, the Seventh Circuit held in Motorola Mobility (...)
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On 16 December 2015, Christmas came early for thirteen airlines when the European General Court annulled (“reversed” in U.S. terminology) the European Commission’s (the “Commission”) November 2010 Air Freight decision, in which they were fined a total of EUR 799 million (the “Decision”). The General (...)
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Although cartels with a global reach are increasingly common, recent decisions from courts in both the United States and United Kingdom have narrowly interpreted the territorial scope of antitrust laws in both jurisdictions. In the United States, the Seventh Circuit held in Motorola Mobility (...)
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Significant developments in private enforcement of competition law – EU Parliament passes Commission’s Directive* Co-authored by Boris Bronfentrinker and Lesley Hannah, Hausfeld LLP On 17 April 2014, a major step was taken in facilitating the pursuit of cartel damages claims across Europe. The (...)
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