Nicola Boyle is a partner at Hausfeld in London. She joined the firm as an associate in October 2009 and has been instrumental in developing the firm’s competition practice in London. She has acted on a number of follow-on cartel damages claims seeking compensation on behalf of groups of affected businesses from across Europe. She has also been involved in a number of consumer and financial service claims, advising individual and multiple claimants on rights of redress. Nicola Boyle was previously a Senior Associate at McGrigors and has represented multi-nationals, private businesses, and individual claimants in a wide range of disputes, in particular in the energy and financial services sectors. She is a keen proponent of alternative disputes resolution, having successfully resolved a number of complex multi-party disputes outside of the courts. She has also advised on a number of regulatory investigations and judicial review proceedings.
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Following its recent consultation on wide-ranging reforms to the UK’s competition and consumer law regimes, the UK Government recently published its response to feedback received from over 180 stakeholders and made clear its intention to legislate to promote competition and consumer rights in (...)
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London, 1 November 2021 - An opt-out collective claim on behalf of over 20 million UK consumers of home insurance has been filed today by Home Insurance Consumer Action against the companies behind Comparethemarket.com. The claim follows the Competition and Markets Authority’s finding last (...)
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The UK Supreme Court recently handed down its eagerly anticipated Judgment in respect of unlawful interchange fee claims against MasterCard and VISA, following almost a decade of litigation. The Judgment provides welcome clarity to merchant retailers as to the unlawfulness of MasterCard’s and (...)
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On 16 April 2019, the UK Court of Appeal handed down what is undoubtedly the most significant ruling to date for the UK’s young collective actions regime. The Judgment in Merricks v Mastercard overturned the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s prior ruling refusing certification of Walter Merricks’ (...)
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The Trucks Cartel On 19 July 2016, the EC concluded a five-year investigation finding that five major truck manufacturers – MAN, Volvo / Renault, Daimler, Iveco and DAF (the ‘’Cartelists") – unlawfully coordinated the pricing of trucks over a 14-year period, from 1997 – 2011, as well as (...)
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Greater scope for cartel damages recovery following the Court of Justice’s ruling that cartelists are liable for “umbrella” damages resulting from the higher prices paid to non-cartelists* On 5 June 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) clarified the full extent of cartel (...)
