Emma Poland

Before Hausfeld, Emma was part of the legal team:

• Advising a digital comparison tool on alleged anti-competitive conduct regarding online advertising restrictions.
• Advising the Trustees of a major Pension Scheme on various competition and regulatory matters.
• Acting for a leading global bank on multi-jurisdictional investigations by various authorities into a cartel in foreign exchange trading.
• Advising an investment fund on various competition and regulatory matters, including several acquisitions.
• Acting for a large construction company on its appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal against the Competition and Markets Authority’s market investigation into aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete.
• Acting for a multinational tobacco company on proceedings against the Competition and Markets Authority arising out of the tobacco decision, which ultimately went to the Supreme Court.

At Hausfeld, Emma is part of the legal teams:

• Filed an opt-out collective action with the CAT on behalf of an estimated 19.5 million eligible UK users of smartphones and tablets running on Google’s Android operating system relating to excessive and unlawful charges on purchase in the Google Play App Store. The claim alleges that Google unfairly restricts consumers from accessing potential competition from other app distributors, by requiring smartphone manufacturers to pre-install a bundle of Google’s proprietary apps and services including the Google Play Store as well as imposing other contractual and technical restrictions.
• Filed a representative collective action with the CAT on behalf of some 19.6 million eligible UK iPhone and iPad users relating to excessive and unlawful charges by the Apple App Store. The claim alleges that Apple’s conduct violates section 18 of the UK Competition Act 1998 and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.