Ginevra Bicciolo

  • Associate
  • London
  • gbicciolo@hausfeld.com
  • +44 20 7936 0927
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginevrabicciolo
Ginevra Bicciolo

OVERVIEW

Ginevra (Ginny) focuses on commercial disputes, competition litigation and human rights/climate change litigation.

Expertise

Ginny was an intern at Hausfeld between 2017 and 2018 and assisted on some of Hausfeld’s most prominent cases during that time, including Stuart Wall v RBS and Air Cargo. Following the completion of her LPC in 2019, she re-joined Hausfeld as a Trainee and qualified as a solicitor in March 2021. .

She has been a pivotal part of legal teams across Hausfeld’s practice areas and has considerable case management experience having been involved in proceedings from pre-action stage up to trial and judgment, including ADR and settlement negotiations in some cases. 

Prior to Hausfeld, Ginny worked in-house at Lombard Odier Asset Management in London and prior to that undertook a number of legal internships and voluntary/third sector work in multiple jurisdictions. Being passionate about access to justice, Ginny has dedicated much of her free time to providing free legal advice to members of the public, at the Bar Pro Bono Unit (now Advocate) and the Free Representation Unit in London. She possesses advocacy experience before the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal.

She is fluent in Italian and English and speaks conversational French.

Clients

Ginny has experience representing clients on a range of commercial, competition and environmental/climate change issues across a variety of sectors, including financial services, technology, utilities, sport, transport and not-for-profit.

EDUCATION

LLB English and European Law, Queen Mary University, London
Legal Practice Course, University of Law, London
Cross-Border Commercial Dispute Resolution Course, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Employment & Support Allowance and Personal Independence Appeals training by LawWorks, which qualifies her to represent and advocated clients before the First-tier Tribunal.

BAR ADMISSIONS

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NEWS

Key CAT judgment on merger control following Meta challenge

  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 17 2022

Privacy International granted permission to intervene in landmark Meta/GIPHY merger review

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Feb 16 2022

The Lawyer identifies Power Cable follow-on cartel claim among the Top 20 litigation for 2022

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jan 12 2022

The Lawyer Awards 2021 commends Hausfeld

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Nov 02 2021

Hausfeld's response to the Government’s consultation on reforming competition and consumer policy

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 06 2021

Hausfeld’s response to the Law Commission’s 14th Programme of Law Reform consultation

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Aug 09 2021

Hausfeld has responded to the Competition and Markets Authority’s invitation to comment on its proposed mobile ecosystems market study

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Aug 02 2021

Google sued for excessive and unlawful charges on its Google Play Store

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 29 2021

Save the Children intervenes in climate change court case brought by young people against 33 countries

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • Human Rights
  • United Kingdom
  • May 11 2021

EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

Enforcement reinforced: the UK Government’s plan to reform competition and consumer law

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • May 20 2022

CMA’s market study on mobile ecosystems: Setting the tone for enforcement in mobile markets

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Feb 28 2022

New Balance v Liverpool FC

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Nov 21 2019

Unconscious bias: uncovering the root cause of gender disparity in the legal profession

  • Human Rights
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 29 2018

PERSPECTIVES

Exclusionary non-price abuses under Article 102 TFEU: useful guidance from the CJEU

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 07 2022

Government proposes boost to post-Brexit competition and consumer policy

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 21 2021

Parties beware: control communications with experts to keep litigation on track

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 29 2021

The latest in consumer protection enforcement: online interface orders

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 19 2020

Experience

Commercial & Financial Disputes

During her time at Hausfeld, Ginevra has been part of the commercial disputes team working on, amongst others:

  • Stuart Wall v The Royal Bank of Scotland.
  • Ventra Investments Limited v Bank of Scotland.
  • New Balance Athletics, Inc v Liverpool FC.
  • The first ever LMAA arbitration taken on by Hausfeld.
  • Multiple arbitrations on behalf of a large aerospace company.

Antitrust/Competition

She has been part of the Hausfeld teams working on ground-breaking competition cases:

  • The opt-out collective action filed 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 purchases in the Google Play Store.The claim argues that Google would be unable to charge customers such excessive and unfair commission if its devices were genuinely open to competitors, and alleges its conduct violates section 18 of the UK Competition Act 1998 and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
  • The opt-out collective action filed 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.
  • Competition damages claims following on from the European Commission Decision in relation to the Power Cables cartel.
  • Air Cargo, a landmark competition follow on damages claim in which Hausfeld pursued claims for losses that occurred in over 50 different jurisdictions as a result of the Air Cargo Cartel, ultimately representing 500 claimant entities - including a significant number of multinationals - against British Airways plc, and 13 Part 20 Defendant Airlines in some of the longest running, most high-profile and complex competition damages actions brought to date in the English Courts.

Human Rights / Environmental & Product Liability

Ginny is part of the Hausfeld team representing Save the Children International in their third party intervention in Duarte Agostinho & 5 Others v Portugal & 32 Others, a ground-breaking climate change case before the European Court of Human Rights, and is an active member of Hausfeld’s ESG & sustainability practice. 

Previously, she helped launch Hausfeld’s Pro Bono practice, and acted on one of the two first LawWorks cases ever taken on by the firm.

Prior to joining Hausfeld, Ginevra gained experience assisting asylum seekers, refugees and victims of conflict-related violence in their fights for justice.

What I think

Exclusionary non-price abuses under Article 102 TFEU: useful guidance from the CJEU

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 07 2022

Government proposes boost to post-Brexit competition and consumer policy

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 21 2021

Parties beware: control communications with experts to keep litigation on track

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 29 2021

The latest in consumer protection enforcement: online interface orders

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 19 2020