Bio

Douglas Campbell is Counsel in the Firm’s London office.

Mr. Campbell regularly works with clients and external counsel, considering competition and regulatory claims, assessing their merits and viability. He has considerable experience in the third-party funding sector, working on funded cases and preparing proposals, and is highly familiar with the collective actions regime introduced by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 having acted in several of the leading cases in the space.

Mr Campbell was listed in “The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases: the associates to know” in 2025.

Mr. Campbell’s current competition damages work includes acting for the proposed class representatives in opt-out collective actions on behalf of victims of the Maritime Car Carriers and Power Cables cartels, as well as acting for several retailers with claims against Visa and Mastercard in respect of interchange fees and rules imposed relating to the card-payment schemes. His commercial litigation work includes acting in a damages claim against an investment bank, on behalf of a former managing director, wrongly convicted of espionage while working for the bank in Romania.

Prior to joining Scott+Scott, Mr. Campbell spent six years working for a major UK law firm in Edinburgh and London. During this time, he acted in a number of competition damages, and general commercial claims. His experience includes acting for a Part 20 Defendant airline in the Air Cargo follow-on and stand-alone damages claims, acting for a FTSE 250-listed company, coordinating a claim against a major UK bank for manipulation of the Foreign Exchange market, acting in a shareholder dispute in relation to an English Championship football club and acting for a money transfer business in an abuse of dominance claim against a major UK bank (obtaining injunctive relief).

Highlights

  • Acted on the first settlement under the UK Collective Action regime (and three of the first four collective settlements).
  • Acting for the Class Representative in the first collective action certified on behalf of businesses and one of the first collective actions to go to trial (the first for cartel damages).
  • Acting on the first trial dedicated to pass-on in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
  • Specialises in competition damages litigation with a background in commercial disputes in the public and private sectors.

Admissions

  • England and Wales
  • Scotland

Representative Cases

  • Case 1339/7/7/20 Mark McLaren Class Representative Limited v MOL (Europe Africa) Ltd and Others (one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases to watch in 2025) – Acting for the Class Representative in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal in a follow-on damages claim for losses suffered as a result of the Maritime Car Carriers cartel, negotiating settlements totalling over £38 million with three of the five Defendant groups, before running a trial against the remaining two.
  • Case 1517/11/7/22 (UK) Merchant Interchange Fee Umbrella Proceedings – Acting for a large number of retailers (including Vodafone, Hermès, GrandVision, Michelin,  Soho House and Leonardo Hotels) in their claims in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal against Visa and Mastercard in relation to anti-competitive interchange fees.
  • Case 1440/7/7/22 Clare Spottiswoode CBE v Nexans France S.A.S. & Others – Acting for the Class Representative in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of British domestic electricity consumers for losses arising from the Power Cables cartel.
  • QB-2018-001043 Vadim Don Benyatov v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited (one of The Lawyer’s and Law360’s Top 20 cases to watch in 2020 and 2021) – Acted for the Claimant, Vadim Benyatov, in the High Court and Court of Appeal in a claim against his former employee, Credit Suisse, relating to losses suffered by Mr Benyatov while working for the bank in Romania.
  • Case 1329/7/7/19 Michael O’Higgins FX Class Representative Limited v Barclays Bank PLC and Others (one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases to watch in 2020) – Acted for the Class Representative in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal in a  collective action for damages arising from the FX Cartels.

Education

  • University of Edinburgh (Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, 2012)
  • University of Edinburgh (LLB, honours, 2011)