Overview
Alice has experience representing corporates in connection with high-profile disputes. Alice’s practice focuses on defending clients against complex litigation in connection with alleged breaches of competition law, both before the High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal. Alice’s work often involves large-scale claims and cross-jurisdictional elements. Alice has also advised clients in connection with regulatory action, including in the context of dawn raids alongside our Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group.
Experience
Her experience highlights include acting for:
- Vodafone/Three: acting for the mobile network operators in their defence of a collective action brought before the Competition Appeal Tribunal by a class representative alleging that they abused their dominant position by over-charging certain customers who entered into combined contracts for handsets and airtime services, including advising in relation to parallel proceedings brought against other mobile network operators.
- Microsoft: acting in its defence of a collective action brought before the Competition Appeal Tribunal by a class representative alleging that Microsoft abused its dominant position via certain of its cloud licencing terms.
- Sucocitríco Cutrale LTDA and two of its officers: advising in their defence against a claim brought in the High Court by a large number of orange producers concerning alleged collusion in Brazil, including a high-profile jurisdiction challenge and successful limitation defence.
- Visa: advising in relation to “standalone” proceedings brought by a global ATM operator alleging that rules relating to ATM fees were set in breach of Article 101 TFEU (and various domestic equivalent) in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
- Porsche: acting in relation to the competition aspects of several group actions brought in the High Court relating alleged collusion in the market for emissions technology.
- A leading facilities management and professional services company: representing a company during a dawn raid conducted by the Competition and Markets Authority into a suspected breach of the Competition Act 1998. A leading facilities management and professional services company: representing a company during a dawn raid conducted by the Competition and Markets Authority into a suspected breach of the Competition Act 1998.
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