Chambers Review
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Competition Law: Private Enforcement: Claimant - UK
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
They are able to condense lots of relevant aspects into key decision-making parameters for their clients.
They are incredibly thorough, very careful and prepared.
The whole team provided highly professional service at all times with short response times and good availability, always with a friendly and solution-oriented attitude.
The team is quite level-headed and good at planning. It takes timetables and project management seriously so you can get ahead of issues and sort things out early.
Stewarts thoroughly researches its cases and is on top of the details of complex issues.
Work Highlights
Stewarts advised large retail clients, including Asda, Wm Morrison and Home Retail Group, on interchange fee claims against Mastercard.
Notable practitioners
Kate Pollock of Stewarts remains one of the leading individuals for high-profile competition damages actions, with notable experience representing claimants in follow-on actions arising from European Commission decisions in cartel cases. She has a number of clients from the retail sector and is well versed in issues in the technology and finance sector. She has experience both representing class representatives in mass claims and acting for stand-alone claimants.
Kate Pollock is a highly experienced litigator who has a strong commercial sense of the likely success of a potential claim.
She is very strategic and commercial but also incredibly good at dealing with clients, the other side, counsel and the court.
Kate Pollock is absolutely brilliant. She is great with clients, absolutely diligent, reactive and a great team leader. Her diligence trickles down to the team.
Kate Pollock is an excellent solicitor with very fine judgement and client management skills combined with a quality for motivating and inspiring her team.
Kate Pollock makes competition law straightforward. She is available, easy to put in front of clients, pragmatic and commercial.
Inge Forster represents large claimant groups and stand-alone claimants in damages claims resulting from anti-competitive behaviour and cartel investigations, often in the technology and finance sectors.
Inge Forster is a highly experienced, knowledgeable and professional lawyer. She is very nice to work with.
Inge Forster is a talented and experienced competition litigator.
She is extremely diligent and a sound commercial litigator. I really like her.
Inge Forster is very thoughtful and a pleasure to work with. She is very experienced in her work.
Inge Forster is very hard-working, really stays focused on what the clients' goals are and keeps progressing a case. She diligently works to achieve the clients' goals.