HIGHLIGHTS:
- Named as one of The Lawyer’s ‘Hot 100 Lawyers’ in 2024.
- Ranked in Band 2 of Chambers and Partners for Competition Law: Private Enforcement: Claimant. Recognized in Global Competition Review’s Who’s Who Legal every year from 2019 to 2024.
- Specialises in competition litigation on behalf of claimants, particularly collective actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
- Regularly speaks at conferences on the private enforcement of competition law.
BIO:
Ms. Hollway is the co-head of Scott+Scott London and has extensive expertise in competition damages litigation. She specialises in acting for businesses and for classes of businesses and consumers who have suffered loss as a result of cartels and other forms of anticompetitive conduct.
Ms. Hollway acts for Mark McLaren Class Representative Limited in an opt-out collective action on behalf of purchasers of new motor vehicles for loss suffered as a result of the cartel in the Maritime Car Carrier market. This case has resulted in the first, third and fourth settlements to be approved by the Competition Appeal Tribunal under the collective actions regime. She also acts for Doug Taylor Class Representative Limited in three proposed collective actions against providers of car financing. Previously she acted for Michael O’Higgins Class Representative Limited in the proposed collective against five leading banks in relation to the manipulation of the Foreign Exchange market, which included litigating the first carriage dispute in the regime.
In addition to collective actions, Ms. Hollway also acts for corporate clients, including a large group of UK and multinational clients in litigating against Visa and Mastercard in relation to interchange fees.
Prior to joining Scott+Scott, she spent nine years in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. She represented clients across a wide range of industries, acting in many of the leading English competition damages cases. Her wide experience on the defence side gives her a special insight into the issues that claimants must address and overcome in order to recoup losses stemming from breaches of competition law in Europe.
Prior to moving to the United Kingdom in 2006, Ms. Hollway worked for the competition and litigation teams of Allens Arthur Robinson in Sydney and clerked for Her Honour Justice Branson of the Federal Court of Australia.
REPRESENTATIVE CASES:
- Mark McLaren Class Representative Limited v MOL (Europe Africa) Ltd and Others in a collective action on behalf of consumers and businesses who purchased new motor vehicles. This was the first collective action which included businesses within the class to be certified and led to the three of the first four settlements in the collective actions regime.
- Acting for a large number of retailers (including Vodafone, Hermès, GrandVision, Soho House, Grange Hotels) in their claims in the English High Court against Visa and Mastercard in relation to anti-competitive interchange fees.
- Acting for Doug Taylor Class Representative Limited in three proposed collective actions against providers of car financing for used vehicles.
- Acting for Kodak in claims brought against large banks and commodities traders in relation to the manipulation of the aluminium market.
- Michael O’Higgins FX Class Representative Limited in a CRA claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal arising from the FX Cartels, including litigating the first carriage dispute.