Glenn Holmwood

Counsel
London

OVERVIEW

Glenn is an experienced disputes lawyer with a focus on competition law and collective actions.

Expertise

Glenn joined Hausfeld in 2024 from the Competition and Markets Authority where he, as Assistant Legal Director, conducted high value, high profile litigation with a focus on competition enforcement appeals, cartel investigations, director disqualification proceedings and public law challenges. In his time at the CMA, Glenn gained specialised experience in the pharmaceutical sector, acting on cases in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court. Glenn also played a leading role in complex and contentious proceedings in a variety of other sectors, including construction, broadcasting, and financial services.

Prior to that, he was called to Bar and practiced as a tenant in a commercial and common law set before joining the Government Legal Department. Whilst at the Government Legal Department, Glenn acted for the Ministry of Defence, litigating complex and technical cases in the areas of public law, inquests, personal injury, and clinical negligence.

Clients

Further to his extensive experience in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Glenn acts for Which? in their consumer collective action against Qualcomm – an abuse of dominance claim, relevant to nearly 30 million UK consumers and involving complex and novel interactions between Competition and IP law.

Before Hausfeld, Glenn was part of the legal team at the Competition and Markets Authority that:
- Successfully defended appeals before the Competition Appeal Tribunal from pharmaceutical suppliers against a finding that they had charged excessive and unfair prices over a decade for hydrocortisone tablets, a generic medicine used in the treatment of Addison’s disease and funded by the NHS. This resulted in the upholding of almost £130 million in fines, the highest ever CMA penalties upheld by the Tribunal.
- Acted on two CMA firsts: the first antitrust director disqualification and the first litigation-led enforcement of an Initial Enforcement Order (IEO) imposed in a merger investigation which resulted in a £50m fine.
- Ran a complex appeal on the starting point for the assessment of costs in the regulatory regime from the Competition Appeal Tribunal to the Court of Appeal and eventually to the Supreme Court.
At Hausfeld, he is part of the legal team working on:
- Filing a representative collective action with the CAT on behalf of the Consumers’ Association (known as Which?) against Qualcomm on behalf of a class of around 29 million UK consumers alleging that Qualcomm abuses its dominance in the markets for smartphone chipsets and standard essential patents, the result of which is that Qualcomm is able to overcharge smartphone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung for its technology. Damages are estimated to be over £480 million.

Glenn Holmwood

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EDUCATION

BAR ADMISSIONS

EVENTS

TL4 – The UK digital markets competition regulation forum 2024

PERSPECTIVES

Broken News – establishing a fairer bargaining dynamic between the publishing industry and digital platforms

DSA priorities: The Commission attempts to defuse the disinformation atom bomb before EU elections

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