Bio
Sian Jacob is an associate in Scott+Scott’s London office specialising in competition damages litigation. Ms. Jacob has strong experience of competition litigation and high value commercial disputes and has experience in the UK collective action regime, having worked on a number of follow-on competition collective actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Prior to joining Scott+Scott, Ms. Jacob worked as an associate at Mishcon de Reya LLP where she advised clients in some of the leading competition damages claims before the English courts and the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Ms. Jacob has worked on the first consumer collective action proceedings applications made in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and her experience spans from pre-action strategic advice to complex, high-value litigation and she has particular experience acting for clients in collective proceedings.
Admissions
- England and Wales
Representative Cases
Reprentative Cases at Prior Firms:
- Acting for the class representative, Justin Le Patourel, in his £600 million opt-out collective action against BT alleging an abuse of BT’s dominant position in landline services markets.
- Acting for and advising the class representative, Justin Gutmann in making a collective proceedings application in a £768 million opt-out claim against Apple in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
- Advising the class representative, Justin Gutmann, in one of the first collective action claims in the Boundary Fares claims, at first instance in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and on appeal to the Court of Appeal.
- Acting for the claimants in the group action litigation on the emissions scandal against large car manufacturers in the High Court.
- Advising Asda, Currys, Iceland, John Lewis, Sainsbury’s, and Wilko in relation to claims against the European Trucks Cartelists in the English High Court.
- Acting for multiple merchant claimants on interchange fee claims against Visa and Mastercard before the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Education
- King’s College London (EU Competition Law PGDIP, 2024)
- BPP University (Legal Practice Course, 2018)
- Bournemouth University (LLB Law, 2017)