Anna Morfey

Partner at Ashurst LLP

Speaker

Anna is a Solicitor Advocate with over 20 years’ experience in Brussels and London advising on EU/UK competition law issues and litigating competition damages claims, both in relation to abuse of dominance/monopolization and cartels. Her litigation experience extends across the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and, at European level, before the General Court and Court of Justice.

Anna has represented household-name clients – claimants and defendants – in some of the most high-profile EU and UK cartel investigations and damages claims including Trucks, Automotive Bearings, High Voltage Power Cables, FX, LIBOR, PU Foam, Smart Card Chips, Industrial Bags, Carbon & Graphite Products, Elevators & Escalators, Gas Insulated Switchgear and Marine Hoses. She has been involved in many of the antitrust cases concerning allegations of abuse of dominance by big tech, including Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

Anna also has extensive expertise in collective actions in the UK, with particular insight from the claimant perspective having acted for a number of proposed class representatives prior to joining Ashurst. Anna is currently acting for defendants in the Motor Finance and Mobile Handsets collective actions which were filed last year.

Anna is a regular speaker and panellist on competition litigation topics at conferences including, in recent years, the IBA's Annual Conferences (Paris and Miami), the UK Law Society's Antitrust Conference (London) and GCR conferences (London and Miami).