Tim Brown

Experience

Antitrust/Competition

Tim has played a central role in the legal teams involved in groundbreaking litigation:

• Representing a German OEM against shipping companies, MOL, NYK, CSAV, WWL-EUKOR, which supplied cartelised roll-on roll-off (Ro-Ro) maritime transport services on trade routes around the world.
• Acting on behalf of European, U.S. and Asian investment management firms, state pension funds and banks against investment banks, including Barclays, Citibank, JPMorgan, RBS, UBS, that manipulated the FX markets affecting trillions of dollars’ worth of client trading. This was the first claim of its kind in Europe arising from the banks’ systemic misconduct.  
• Representing iiyama, a Japanese manufacturer of computer monitors and televisions, in a €1 billion dispute arising from a global price-fixing cartel affecting cathode ray tubes, and in a parallel €150 million dispute concerning a similar price-fixing cartel instigated by Samsung, LG and other manufacturers of liquid crystal display panels. In an important decision for claimants generally, the Court of Appeal struck out the defendants’ interim challenges, upholding the broad territorial scope of iiyama’s claim, iiyama (UK) Ltd v Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, and iiyama Benelux BV v Samsung SDI Co Ltd, [2018 EWCA Civ 220].
• Acting for Arcadia, Asda, Morrisons and other major UK retailers seeking damages from Visa and Mastercard in two £500 million disputes concerning unlawful multi-lateral interchange fees.
• Representing a UK Automotive client against two defendant cartelists guilty of forming a cartel in the market for deep sea transport of new cars, trucks and other large vehicles, on various routes.