Hausfeld continues its lateral hires: competition litigation expert joins their London office

London, 10 December 2024 - Global disputes-only law firm, Hausfeld, is pleased to announce that Daniel Hunt will join its London office as Partner on 6 January 2025. He has a strong background in antitrust law and antitrust litigation.

Daniel joins Hausfeld from Freshfields where he was an active member of their global antitrust litigation group, as well as their collective and class action skills groups. He brings with him a wealth of competition litigation experience, having acted in the English Courts, including the Competition Appeal Tribunal, High Court, and Court of Appeal, as well as in the European Courts at first instance and on appeals. In addition to his work in antitrust litigation, Daniel has advised on investigations by competition and sectoral regulators and has provided counsel on compliance with antitrust law across a range of matters, including horizontal, vertical, and dominance issues.

Daniel also maintains a pro-bono practice, having represented several NGOs in public interest interventions at the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

This will bring Hausfeld’s European competition disputes resolution team to 12 partners and 44 qualified lawyers, further supported by a team of paralegals and business professionals.

Commenting on the announcement, Scott Campbell, Head of Competition Disputes at Hausfeld in London:

“Daniel’s impressive experience will further strengthen our Competition Disputes capabilities in London, as we continue to seek redress for our clients through private actions for damages. We have the largest dedicated claimant Competition Disputes team in Europe and our leading expertise and experience in this field is widely recognised and unparalleled. We expect our workload to continue its growth trajectory through follow-on and stand-alone actions for damages brought by our corporate clients alongside our thriving collective actions practice before the CAT here in England as well as in other major EU jurisdictions. We very much look forward to welcoming Daniel on-board."

Daniel Hunt says:

“I am excited to join Hausfeld at a time when there is such momentum behind competition disputes in the UK and across the EU. Hausfeld is the leading competition litigation claimant firm and a pioneer in collective redress. Hausfeld will continue to lead the way in follow-on and stand-alone competition damages actions and I could not pass up the opportunity to contribute to such a talented and dedicated team.”  

Notes to Editors

About Daniel Hunt

Daniel acts for clients on high value contentious competition law issues.  He has acted in the English and European Courts at both first instance and on appeals and has extensive experience of the Competition Appeal Tribunal - including in both individual proceedings and mass claims. 

At Freshfields, his work included acting for a leading truck manufacturer in the co-ordination of its Europe-wide defence of claims arising from the European Commission’s decision relating to the trucks industry, a major utilities company in its defence of proposed collective proceedings, and for a financial services client in its defence of allegations of multi-jurisdictional cartel conduct by a number of competition regulators.  In 2022 Daniel assisted in securing the dismissal of a major cartel damages claim against Infineon Technologies AG by deploying a novel limitation argument and successfully upholding that result in the Court of Appeal.

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