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Competition Law: Private Enforcement: Claimant - London (Firms)
What the Team is Known For
Geradin Partners is a specialist competition litigation firm with deep expertise in class action claims against technology sector defendants. It is especially well known for its activity on collective actions. It also advises on private damages actions and appeals against competition authority decisions.
Strengths
The firm offers a very intimate, client-focused service and the lawyers work extremely effectively together as a team.
There is a good balance across the firm of commercial awareness and theoretical knowledge.
Geradin is a uniquely capable organisation, bringing together an extraordinary level of expertise in competition law, economics, funding, and enforcement.
Geradin Partners is the best in the business when it comes to complex cases, especially in the technology sector.
Work Highlights
Geradin Partners advised Ad tech Collective Action on a GBP13.6 billion opt-out class action against Google in relation to Google’s alleged abuse of dominance.
Notable practitioners
Damien Geradin enters the rankings on the back of notable activity in high-profile opt-out collective actions before the CAT involving technology sector defendants.
He is an expert in the competition field.
Damien Geradin is passionate about the subject, a strong believer in his cases, a fierce negotiator, a charismatic leader, and a genuine thought leader in his field.
He is someone with extraordinarily detailed knowledge of the practice area.
Damien Geradin has very good judgement.
He can combine great commercial insight in terms of where is the market going with the technical side as well.