Aqeel Kadri

Partner
London

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OVERVIEW

Aqeel is an experienced competition litigator with extensive experience of both public and private enforcement of competition law in the EU and UK.

Expertise

Aqeel has acted for clients in numerous cases before the English and EU courts, including in some of the most significant cases of recent years. His current practice is focused on competition litigation in the English Courts, encompassing both follow-on and stand-alone claims on behalf of individual clients and in collective proceedings. He currently represents Hausfeld clients in the Trucks litigation before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the proposed class representative in Julie Hunter v Amazon.com, Inc. & Ors.

Aqeel has advised and represented clients in relation to competition damages actions in various EU Member States, including numerous cases before the English Courts; he has litigated cases before the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Aqeel has also advised and represented a number of companies in the judicial review of decisions of the European Commission relating to cartel infringements and abuse of dominance, before the EU General Court and Court of Justice.

Prior to joining Hausfeld, Aqeel practiced from the London and Brussels offices of White & Case where he was a pivotal member of their competition law and dispute resolution practices.

In addition to his experience in private practice, Aqeel has spent time on secondment to the Competition and Markets Authority as well as gaining experience working for the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, , and in the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels.

Aqeel sits as a Recorder (Crime) on the South Eastern Circuit.

Clients

Aqeel has acted for and advised clients in relation to some of the most significant antitrust cases of recent years, covering areas including predatory pricing, rebates, tying, refusal to supply and excessive pricing. He has particular experience of pricing in the pharmaceutical sector. He has also acted for clients in the banking, technology and automotive sectors.

Aqeel’s competition experience includes:
- Acting for thirteen corporate claimant groups in the ongoing litigation relating to the Trucks cartel sanctioned by the European Commission in 2016.
- Acting for the proposed class representative, consumer advocate Julie Hunter, in collective proceedings filed against Amazon.com, Inc. seeking damages on behalf of UK consumers for alleged anticompetitive conduct in relation to Amazon’s ‘Buy Box’.
Prior to joining Hausfeld, Aqeel was involved in numerous significant competition cases, including:
- Representing Goldman Sachs in a stand-alone competition damages claim in the High Court.
- Representing defendants in claims for damages in the High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal arising out of the European Commission’s decisions in:
  - TV and computer monitor tubes - Representing companies in the Toshiba group in proceedings brought by a television retailer.
  - Automotive bearings - Representing NTN Corporation in its defence of damages claims brought by multiple claimants.
  - Power cables - Representing Nexans in multiple sets of proceedings before the English Courts.
- Representing Bulgarian Energy Holding in its application to annul a European Commission Decision finding that it breached Article 102 TFEU.
- Advising Google on its challenge to the European Commission Decision in Google Android.
- Advising an interested party in the European Commission’s investigation into Broadcom.
- Representing SAS in its challenge to the European Commission’s re-adopted decision on the airfreight cartel, as well as its challenge to the original Decision.
- Advising a pharmaceutical company in relation to investigations by the CMA.
- Advising Pfizer on the CMA’s investigation into the pricing of phenytoin sodium capsules and subsequent proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
- Representing a supplier of medical equipment in a CMA investigation into alleged tying.
- Advising a major multi-national pharmaceutical company on pricing of its products in multiple jurisdictions across the EU, including the UK.
- Representing the Applicants in the landmark State aid cases of European Food v Commission and Micula v Commission before the EU General Court and Court of Justice.
Prior to joining Hausfeld:
- Acting for the Claimants in proceedings to enforce an arbitral award against Romania before the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court ([[2020] UKSC 5).
- Advising a claimant in an investor-state arbitration in relation to issues of predatory pricing and exclusionary rebates.
Aqeel is acting for the Defendants in a claim relating to USD/ZAR foreign exchange swaps ([2022] EWHC 2616 (Comm); [2022] EWHC 3251 (Comm)).

Prior to joining Hausfeld, Aqeel represented Sandoz in an intellectual property case related to the successful defence of an action for passing-off in relation to inhalers, brought by GSK ([2019] EWHC 2545 (Ch)).

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