About Us.
We move collective redress across borders.
We work closely with mass claimant law firms, consumer protection groups and independent foundations to develop and expand potential or existing collective consumer actions across multiple jurisdictions. Our global and holistic understanding of collective redress and consumer protection legislation, coupled with our sector and product specific expertise, enables us to develop effective strategies to structure and coordinate complex mass consumer claims. We ensure that what would have otherwise been a localised and isolated collective action is simultaneously expanded internationally, thereby enabling our partners to defend consumers globally and to provide them with the access to justice and compensation that they deserve.
Our Expertise.
We’re well equipped to advise on all aspects of collective redress and consumer protection law, with particular expertise on assisting in the development, structuring and coordination of multi-jurisdictional collective actions. By drawing upon our broad global network of local counsels, litigation funders, consumer protection bodies, client book-building specialists and other relevant parties, we help internationalise collective actions which cover a wide spectrum of practice areas; including antitrust and anticompetition, fraud and misrepresentation, product liability, privacy rights and a range of unfair business practices.
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Collective Redress.
Collective redress is a legal procedure which facilitates the prevention or cessation of unlawful business practices that impact a multitude of claimants and ultimately, which seeks to compensate them for the harm caused by such practices. These collective procedures are often used by and on behalf of consumers who individually, would otherwise have limited legal recourse to effectively constrain or challenge a multinational company’s tortious acts.
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Collective redress mechanisms can take a variety of forms, however within the context of consumer protection, they primarily consist of class or collective actions. These actions are a form of lawsuit in which the claimant is a group of similarly affected consumers (the 'class'), who are collectively represented by either a member of that group or, in the alternative, a non-profit consumer organisation.
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Although collective redress has existed since the earliest days of English common law, the modern collective action was first introduced in the United States in 1966 – the class action. For a number of years, class actions remained predominantly as an American phenomenon, although in more recent times, a large number of jurisdictions have undertaken or are beginning to undertake wide-ranging legislative reforms to incorporate and facilitate varying forms of collective consumer actions.
Our Culture.
Together, we can achieve great things. In this increasingly global and interconnected collective redress landscape, we believe that bringing the right people together, at the right time and on the right subject, is the best way to ensure effective consumer protection.
