About Us
Mr Adam Collinson
Mr Adam Collinson is a former competition law practitioner with over 25 years of experience in competition law. Most notably:
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Former partner at Eversheds Sutherland International LLP where he was a core member of the management team that developed the firm’s competition law practice.
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Whilst working at Eversheds Mr Collinson advised corporates and multi-nationals on a wide range of strategic and business critical competition law matters, including strategic management of abuse of dominance investigations and case closure / settlement negotiations.
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More recently, Mr Collinson now acts as a non-executive director for one of Europe’s largest demolition, dismantling and decommissioning companies, responsible for the supervision of compliance with competition law, ensuring that the company implements appropriate risk-based compliance measures.
The Team
KP Law
KP Law is a leading collective redress law firm that has represented tens of thousands of employees and consumers, as well as businesses and commercial entities. It has built a reputation for standing up to large, well-funded organisations.
KP Law has a market-leading competition litigation team with expertise in litigation competition law cases across the UK and Europe. This includes extensive experience in competition matters both before the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal and in regulatory investigations.
Duncan Hedar is a Partner and Head of Competition at KP Law and heads the team at KP Law running the claim. A barrister and solicitor-advocate, he has extensive experience acting for clients in high-value and business-critical litigation and arbitration. This includes before the English High Court, the International Court of Justice, and numerous arbitral bodies.
Emma Birch is a Partner within the Competition team at KP Law. Emma has more than 15 years’ experience as a commercial litigator and has acted in a number of large competition matters within the CAT, including for UKTC in one of the very first applications to be issued in the AT following the introduction of the Collective Proceedings Regime.
James Matthews is a Legal Director and has the day to day conduct of the claim within the Competition team at KP Law. He is an experienced disputes lawyer with a track record acting for clients in some of the largest and most high-profile cases before the English courts of recent years. Most recently, he was part of a team that prepared a Collective Proceedings Order application in the Competition Appeal Tribunal for a £500m claim in the telecoms sector.
Keystone Ai
AGC Collective Actions Limited has instructed Andrea Coscelli as economic expert in the claim.
Mr Coscelli heads the team at Keystone working on the claim. Keystone is a global technology and advisory firm helping leading organisations tackle complex business, legal, and tech challenges.
Mr Coscelli is a Senior Partner in the London office and Head of Keystone's practice in Europe. He is a leading European expert in antitrust and competition economics. His focus is on advising companies and government bodies on merger reviews, antitrust, litigation and regulation with a special focus on the digital economy.
Prior to Keystone, Andrea was the CEO of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for six years until July 2022. He has over twenty-five years of competition economics experience and was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Competitive Markets in the 2020 New Year Honours. He led the CMA between 2016 and 2022 during a period of significant growth following the UK exit from the EU.
Barristers
AGC Collective Actions Limited has retained Mark Brealey KC (Monkton Chambers), Nicholas Khan KC (Monckton Chambers) and Adam Aldred (Kings Chambers), all of whom bring significant experience and expertise to the case, in particular:
Mark Brealey KC is a recent winner of Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Competition Law Silk and is a specialist in litigation in all aspects of Competition Law. He was the Times lawyer of the week for his success in the Supreme Court in the interchange fee competition litigation. He is described as a leader in competition law with a ‘remarkable track-record of winning cases, even where there is a challenging fact pattern’.
Nicholas Khan KC has recently returned to full time practice after a long career as a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, marked by being the only lawyer to have become a KC while working in a European Union Institution. As a member of the Commission’s Legal Service, Nicholas has advised on many competition matters that have been fundamental to the development of EU law.