Enhancing Efficiency for Class Certification and Evidence Gathering with Large Group Claims
03 Mar 2023
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Highlights
Led by BRG, your expert panel will discuss the use of surveys for large claimant groups in relation to collective actions. The panel will address a variety of topics including the position of surveys and their approach to class certification, how they identify the correct class, their status, and how they can be used to calculate damages. Panellists will also delve into case studies and share their practical experiences in these areas.
Topics include:
- Whether surveys are a more stable approach to class certification
- How surveys can help identify the correct class (i.e. commonality)
- The status of surveys and sampling as evidence from a legal perspective
- How surveys can be used to calculate damages
- Case studies and practical experience
Keep an eye out, more expert speakers to join this panel alongside BRG.
Our Panel of Experts:
Managing Director
BRG
Greg is an expert in the areas of valuation, dispute consulting, pricing, competition finance and economic regulation. He has significant experience working on cases in telecom, media, energy, post, water and transport. Greg’s experience includes the production of independent expert reports for submission to government departments, courts, tax authorities, and competition and regulatory bodies, and inclusion in international corporate transaction agreements. He is a leading expert active in commercial arbitration worldwide, identified by The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration from 2012 to 2019.
BRG
Managing Director
BRG
Dr. Dante Quaglione holds a PhD in economics, and has worked as an economist and strategist for over twenty-five years, primarily as a senior expert with leading global economic and strategy consulting companies.
BRG
Partner
Scott+Scott
Mr. Mansfield is Partner at Scott+Scott London. Mr. Mansfield specialises in acting for businesses and consumers who have suffered losses because of anti-competitive conduct and also works on general commercial and securities litigation. Mr. Mansfield works closely with other members of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition and Securities’ practices, including evaluating and developing claims–often on a multi-jurisdictional basis.
Prior to joining Scott+Scott, Mr. Mansfield spent over six years in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and completed a stage a (internship) at the Legal Services of the European Commission in Brussels.
Scott+Scott
Partner, Antitrust & Competition
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Michelle Clark is a partner in Willkie's Antitrust & Competition and Litigation practices in London. Her areas of practice include competition litigation, UK and EU regulatory investigations and GDPR/Data Protection Act 2018 compliance and litigation.
Michelle is recognised in the market as a leading competition lawyer with particular experience in competition litigation. Acting for both claimants and defendants, she regularly coordinates multi-jurisdictional litigation with a particular focus on collective actions, cartel damages and abuse of dominance claims, often involving intellectual property and FRAND issues. Her experience includes litigating in the English High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. Michelle also advises clients in relation to competition investigations, both infringement proceedings and market sector inquiries, and consequential appeals and judicial reviews following decisions of competition and regulatory authorities. Michelle's vast experience spans multiple industries, with a particular focus on the financial services, automotive, retail, sports, media, pharmaceutical and technology sectors. Michelle also provides strategic and general competition counselling advice. Alongside her busy competition litigation practice, Michelle is a highly regarded data protection lawyer. She regularly advises US/EU companies on GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 compliance, data transfers, breaches and data protection litigation.
Michelle is recognised by Law.com in its "Rising Stars 2022: The UK's Best Up and Coming Female Lawyers" list, as one of the UK's top 25 female lawyers under age 40. Michelle was also ranked as a "Next Generation Partner" by The Legal 500 for Competition Litigation in 2022. BAR ADMISSIONS Michelle is admitted to the England & Wales and Scotland Bars.
Michelle received an EU Competition Law Masters from King's College London in 2017, a Diploma in Legal Practice from University of Glasgow Graduate School of Law in 2007 and an LLB (Hons) from University of Glasgow in 2006.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Barrister
Monckton Chambers
Nikolaus has a busy practice spanning public & regulatory, civil and international law. He acts regularly in high-profile litigation, both in commercial and human rights matters. He has particular expertise in complex public law cases, competition law, data protection, and in claims involving issues of national security, armed conflict and international relations.
Nikolaus is a member of the Attorney General’s Public International Law C Panel of Counsel to the Crown and a former judicial assistant to Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury. Before coming to the bar, Nikolaus worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan and Sudan. He was selected as one of “The Hot 100” in The Lawyer in 2017 and has been instructed in several of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of recent years.
Monckton Chambers
Agenda
Speakers:
Dante Quaglione - Managing Director - BRG
Cian Mansfield - Partner - Scott+Scott
Michelle Clark - Partner, Antitrust & Competition - Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Nikolaus Grubeck - Barrister - Monckton Chambers
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