Stewarts Law LLP

Competition Litigation

Partner

Matthew is a partner in the Competition Litigation team and specialises in high-value and complex competition disputes arising from competition law infringements in the UK and globally.

Matthew has extensive experience in commercial litigation but now focusses on competition matters, including advising on follow-on and standalone damages claims, interventions in Competition Appeal Tribunal proceedings and cartel investigations. Matthew has advised clients involved in proceedings in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Matthew's experience includes:

• Represented Asda, Argos and Morrisons in their landmark Supreme Court victory against Mastercard in the long-running multilateral interchange fee litigation (the first claims of their type to be issued in the English Courts), relating to anti-competitive credit card fees.
• Acting for Gemalto, now part of global security giant Thales Group headquartered in France, in their substantial pan-European smart card chip cartel claim.
• Advised major global electronics distributor Ingram Micro in its claim against Samsung and others in connection with the liquid crystal displays Cartel.
• Acting for a significant group of major household name retailers in their respective multi-million pound claims against Visa and Mastercard for damages relating to multilateral interchange fees.

Matthew joined the firm as a paralegal, trained at Stewarts and qualified into the Competition Litigation team in October 2010. Matthew was made a partner in May 2022.