Luke Grimes

Luke plays an important part of the legal teams acting:

• For merchant retailers in the renowned ‘interchange fees’ litigation in the High Court, relating to claims against Mastercard and Visa following interchange fees on both cross‐border and domestic transactions in 18 European countries. Hausfeld acted on behalf of over 1000 operating entities in 8 corporate groups. 
• For follow-on damages claims in the High Court relating to the Power Cables cartel.

Luke has also played a key role as part of the legal team dealing with ground breaking claims as follows:

• Filed a groundbreaking 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.
• An opt-out collective action filed on behalf of UK publishers of websites and apps against tech giant Google in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal.  The claim alleges that Google has infringed competition law in the online display advertising market where over 200,000 websites and apps have lost out on ad revenue and could therefore collectively receive an estimated £3.4bn in damages.