HAUSFELD - Key Persons
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- Liquidation Trustee for RIH Acquisitions NJ, LLC D / B / a / the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel V. Scientific Games Corp. Et Al
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- Founding Partner
- Partner, ( Managing Partner Stockholm )
Andrew Bullion is a founding partner of Hausfeld, and divides his time between London and Sweden, where he heads Hausfeld's Stockholm office, and has built the firm's successful Nordic practice since 2006.
Expertise
Andrew brings two decades of experience of successfully litigating complex competition and securities derivative matters on behalf of corporate claimants and defendants. He has led proceedings before the UK High Court, the Competition Appeals Tribunal and in several additional European jurisdictions - including the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Poland - as well as the U.S. Federal District Courts.
Andrew routinely speaks on competition law and litigation, including at conferences in Brasil, Denmark, London, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, and is a regular guest lecturer on EU/US competition law at the University of Toulouse Masters of Law I Programme and at IDP University of Law in Brasilia, Brasil.
Andrew has written numerous articles and book chapters on competition law, including for Elgar's Competition Damages Actions in the EU and the Global Competition Review. He speaks Swedish.
Previously, Andrew clerked for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission‘s Bureau of Competition, and worked for leading Swedish law firm Advokatfirman Vinge KB.
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- Operations & HR Director
- Operations & HR Director / London
With a strategic and pragmatic approach, Angela provides solutions to develop business functions and most importantly, employees, to be at their best through providing practical solutions, support, and guidance to those she works with. Angela demonstrates a successful track record in optimising business resources and effecting change management.
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- Deputy Managing Partner ( Germany )
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- Founding Partner
- Co - Lead Counsel
- Global Co - Chair
- Global Co - Chair / Washington, DC
Brian is a founding partner of Hausfeld and serves as Global Co-Chair of the firm. He has extensive experience representing U.S. and international businesses in complex litigation at the trial and appellate levels. He is particularly experienced in litigating and resolving antitrust claims in U.S. and European courts, recovering billions of dollars for his corporate clients and the classes he has represented.
Brian Ratner has "a brilliant legal mind while being extremely pragmatic and commercially minded," commented interviewees. (Who's Who Legal, Competition - Plaintiff - Legal Marketplace Analysis, 2019)
"He is praised as a lawyer who 'goes the extra mile,' and whose 'high-quality work product is feared by competitors.'" (Who's Who Legal, Competition - Plaintiff - Legal Marketplace Analysis, 2018)
Brian has been representing car manufacturers and other OEMS including BMW, Stellantis, PSA, FCA, Renault and GKN regarding their global auto parts cartel damage claims, and helping them achieve outstanding recoveries.
MTB Investment Partners, LP v. Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. - Brian served as one of the lead counsel in this securities fraud matter that led to a settlement that returned more than 115% of recognized losses after attorneys' fees and expenses to former shareholders in HearUSA, Inc.
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- Office Manager
- Office Manager of Hausfeld 's Berlin
Christina Leßing is the Office Manager of Hausfeld's Berlin and Düsseldorf offices.
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- Partner
- Partner / San Francisco
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- Managing Partner ( Germany )
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- Deputy Managing Partner at Hausfeld in Berlin
Dr. Ann-Christin Richter is Deputy Managing Partner at Hausfeld in Berlin. She advises on all aspects of competition law and represents clients in antitrust and IP litigation.
Ann-Christin specializes in representing clients in cartel damages actions, both on the plaintiff's and the defendant's side. She is also experienced in defending clients in cartel investigations by competition authorities and in conducting internal investigations. A further focus of Ann-Christin's practice is providing advice in abuse of dominance cases and at the interface of IP and antitrust law. Ann-Christin has represented clients before numerous German courts as well as before the European General Court.
Ann-Christin studied in Hanover, Hamburg, Berlin and Durham. She holds a LL.M. from Durham University and a Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin, both with a focus on competition law.
Prior to joining Hausfeld, Ann-Christin worked for two international law firms in German and European competition law and antitrust and IP litigation for several years. She further worked as an antitrust expert for a major international pharmaceutical and healthcare company.
Partner, Hilary Scherrer, has been bestowed with a Law Firm Thought Leadership award by Corporate Counsel as part of their 2023 Women, Influence and Power in Law Firm Awards.
Ingrid Gubbay is a skilled litigator and campaign lawyer with 25 years' experience and heads the HR & Environmental team. She has won awards for her ground-breaking cases, both in Australia where she ran test cases and class actions at the legal Aid Commission of NSW, and in the UK, where she formerly worked as Principal Campaign lawyer at the NGO Which?.
Expertise
She conducts strategic public/private law litigation and advice, both domestically and internationally, on behalf of communities affected by large scale corporate violations. Ingrid frequently comments on legal innovations in the field of Business and Human Rights.
She is an active member of the Global Climate Litigation network, a Trustee of Legal Action Network (LAW) which works to bring legal accountability for women living in conflict zones, and a legal trustee of the Dutch environmental social enterprise ‘Sea Rangers', which professionally trains and empowers unemployed youth to work with nations to protect their marine environments
In March 2022, she was appointed Visiting Research Fellow by BIICL.
The Financial Times 2021 Innovative Lawyers Awards shortlisted Ingrid for the 'Sustainable Lawyer' accolade because of her substantive work on climate change litigation and for championing the role of lawyers in tackling global warming. In April 2019, Ingrid was featured by the Law Society as ‘Lawyer of the Week' for her work on the successful #PeriodPoverty legal campaign.
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- Leader
- Chairman of Hausfeld 's US
- Partner / Boston
James Gotz is the chair of Hausfeld's US-based Environmental & Product Liability Practice Group. For the past thirty years, from his office in Boston, he has represented claimants across Massachusetts and nationally in complex tort litigation, ranging from environmental tort cases on behalf of state governmental agencies and water authorities, to catastrophic injury pharmaceutical product liability and toxic tort actions.
James leads the firm's deep-bench US environmental team in representing public entities against chemical companies responsible for contaminating drinking water supplies and other natural resources. That includes the first-in-the-nation case seeking to hold chemical manufacturers responsible for contamination from decades-long release of 1,4-dioxane into groundwater, as well as the first state-wide dioxane case against those same companies.
James also brings his complex litigation experience and best practices to several of the firm's current human rights and social justice cases, including the firm's efforts to hold the Government of South Sudan accountable for atrocities suffered by NGO workers at the Terrain Hotel in 2016.
Additionally, James is a leader in the prosecution of pharmaceutical and medical device mass torts, starting with the Fen-Phen Diet Drug MDL in Philadelphia in the late 1990s and, more recently, his successful resolution of the GranuFlo MDL litigation in Boston. James has been judicially appointed or invited to leadership roles in multiple drug and device MDLs, contributing his experience and skills to matters such as legal challenges to the admissibility of expert opinions (so-called Daubert challenges), litigation strategy, litigation management, and global resolution. In addition, he has contributed to thought leadership on MDL-related issues through Emory Law School's Institute for Complex Litigation and Mass Claims and advocated at hearings before the federal Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules concerning proposed changes to Rule 72 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, "Testimony by Expert Witness."
No matter how challenging or adversarial the situation, James remains thoughtful, calm, and considerate while still securing the greatest possible success for his clients. His consistent winning results prove the value of his uniquely attentive approach and demonstrate the knowledge and wisdom that comes from his wide range of complex civil litigation experiences.
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- Director of Administration
- Director of Administration / Washington, DC
- Director of Administration for the US
Kimberly Lytle is the Director of Administration for the US offices of Hausfeld.
Kimberly has over 24 years of law firm administration and human resources experience. She is an accomplished law firm management and human resources professional. She is responsible for overseeing, identifying and analyzing management issues related to the daily operations of the US offices to ensure administrative functions run smoothly.
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- Managing Partner, London / London
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- Partner
- Partner / Amsterdam
Rogier was also assistant professor at Utrecht University where he lectured on contract law, liability law, civil procedure and international private law.
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- Head of Competition Disputes and Partner / London