Joanna Christoforou

Partner at Hausfeld

Speaker

Joanna Christoforou recently joined Hausfeld and brings with her an extensive experience on EU and UK competition law, including competition litigation and complex multi-party investigations in the EU and UK. She has represented one of the UK’s largest retailers in the leading case against Visa in the interchange fee litigation in the English courts, with successful appeals to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and represented a leading pharmaceutical company in its challenge to the CMA’s search warrants in a first-of-its-kind litigation. She has also represented clients in the successful appeals against the CMA’s decisions in each of Hydrocortisone and Prochlorperazine, the appeal against the CMA’s decision in Liothyronine, and appeals against director disqualification proceedings. At Hausfeld, Joanna is part of the legal team which has filed a representative collective action with the CAT on behalf of the Consumers’ Association (known as Which?) against Qualcomm on behalf of a class of around 29 million UK consumers alleging that Qualcomm abuses its dominance in the markets for smartphone chipsets and standard essential patents.

She is also part of the Hausfeld team in the opt-out collective action filed with the CAT on behalf of an estimated 19.5 million eligible UK users of smartphones and tablets running on Google’s Android operating system relating to excessive and unlawful charges on purchase in the Google Play store.

Legal 500 UK has recognised Joanna as a Leading Individual in Competition Litigation. More generally, Joanna has been recognised by Legal 500 UK as a Leading Individual and/or recommended as a key lawyer every year since 2016 for EU and Competition Law and since 2020 for Competition Litigation.