Bio
Alice Bernstein is a Senior Associate in Scott+Scott’s London office. Ms. Bernstein specialises in acting for businesses and consumers who have suffered losses arising from anticompetitive conduct or misrepresentations or omissions relating to investments. Ms. Bernstein works closely with other members of Scott+Scott’s Antitrust and Competition and Securities’ practices, including evaluating and developing claims. Ms. Bernstein has worked on a variety of disputes at all levels of the English Courts and in arbitration proceedings. Her experience spans pre-action strategic advice through to complex, high value, multi-jurisdictional litigation.
Prior to joining Scott+Scott in June 2020, Ms. Bernstein spent six years in the London office of an international law firm, where her practice focused on insurance disputes for both claimants and defendants, and commercial disputes including an internal fraud investigation. This included a six-month secondment with the in-house legal team of a leading global insurer.
Ms. Bernstein has published on group litigation, as well as financial, regulatory and procedural matters.
Admissions
- England and Wales
Representative Cases
- Acting for investors in claims relating to inadequate disclosures in IPO offering documents, pre-deSPAC misrepresentations by a technology company, and market manipulation and fraud in the commodities sector.
- Acting for a large number of retailers (including Vodafone, Hermès, GrandVision, Michelin, Soho House, Grange Hotels) in their claims in the English High Courts against Visa and Mastercard in relation to anti-competitive interchange fees.
- Advising Dr. Maria Luisa Stasi in a collective action before the Competition Appeal Tribunal seeking damages for UK businesses and organisations for inflated licencing costs arising from abusive conduct by Microsoft in the cloud computing market
- Acting for Doug Taylor Class Representative Limited in proposed collective proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal against three major banks in relation to car financing.
- Representing a litigation investment company in claims arising from the Drawer Wraps and Drawer Fronts Cartels.
Education
- University of Law (Graduate Diploma in Law; Legal Practice Course)
- University of Birmingham (Philosophy BA)