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Cross-fertilisation of ideas between transactional and litigation lawyers yields a result greater than the sum of its parts, according to the keynote speaker on the second morning of the Global Class Actions Symposium 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving the keynote at the Global Class Actions Symposium 2025 (GCAS25), hosted by CDR<\/em> parent company Global Legal Group, Veronica Davis, senior legal counsel at global manufacturer Airbus agreed class actions play an important role in granting access to justice. \u201cBut I represent a multinational [company] and need to look at class actions from a defendant perspective. I need to stop the company falling foul of them, and ensure it is protected from frivolous lawsuits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key strand of her speech was that closer collaboration between transactional lawyers \u2013 who she characterised as fire marshals with a preventative role \u2013 and class action defence litigators \u2013 which she characterised as firefighters and thus in a reactive capacity \u2013 can reduce class action risk dramatically. She asked the rhetorical question: \u201cWhy not flip [the roles], and have litigators as fire marshals, and stopping the \u2018fire\u2019 in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European patchwork<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hosting a panel on \u2018Developments Across Europe\u2019, Chris Ford, a senior director at payment solutions provider Blackhawk Network, described the representative action \u2013 arising from the 2020 EU Representative Actions Directive (RAD)<\/a>  \u2013 as \u201cthe anchor\u201d for class actions in the bloc, on account of its \u201cminimum standards to protect consumers\u201d. He pointed out that 97 such claims were filed in 2024, with figures for 2025 continuing at pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rita Samoreno Gomes, a partner and dispute resolution co-head at PLMJ in Lisbon highlighted a notable rise in class actions in Portugal<\/a> over the past five years which shows no signs of slowing: \u201cPortugal for the last two years has surpassed the Netherlands [not only] in number of claims [but] also in the amount of damages sought, [putting it] at the forefront of the EU class actions market.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D\u00fcsseldorf-based Mayer Brown litigation partner Jan Henning Buschfeld explained the German framework before transposition of the RAD: \u201cGerman collective redress was via a model declaratory action [\u2026] which only allowed declaratory relief, but then the consumer still had to file [a separate] claim to get any money. The RAD changes that<\/a>, and allows monetary relief as part of the process, which is a big step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Murphy, partner and co-head of disputes and investigations at A&L Goodbody in Dublin, described Ireland as \u201cprobably the least interesting or attractive jurisdiction from a class actions perspective\u201d. The situation is changing in part due to its 2024 transposition of the RAD, with a single case having been initiated in May<\/a> under the new framework, but the prohibition of third-party finance<\/a> under Ireland\u2019s champerty and maintenance provisions is likely to hinder the expansion of class actions in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving the perspective from Belgium, Catherine Longeval from Van Bael & Bellis underlined the legislature\u2019s declaration that it did \u201cnot want a US-style class actions system in Belgium\u201d, which might lead to an \u201conslaught of cases overburdening the Belgian court system\u201d. The ensuing strict admissibility rules have seen only one Belgian organisation bringing a case under its RAD framework so far.  Though not admitted to practice in the neighbouring jurisdiction, Longeval also gave a view from the Netherlands<\/a>, ascribing its popularity for class actions to its opt-out nature, and the \u201cability to combine different claims for similar or identical alleged violations\u201d into one case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competition developments<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Competition cases formed the basis of the morning\u2019s second panel, including the implications for access to justice when dominant market actors cause harm to consumers and smaller players. Chairing the panel was Loree Kovach, senior vice president at legaltech platform Epiq in Seattle, who observed \u201cclass actions are evolving rapidly\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Jasper, a London antitrust litigation and enforcement partner at Clifford Chance, spoke of \u201cbig developments in certification\u201d in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), citing the Christine Riefa v Apple & Others<\/em><\/a> overcharging case, where certification failed \u201cfollowing cross-examination [amid] concerns that [the proposed class representative] did not understand the funding arrangements\u201d, and the Rowntree v PRS <\/em>royalties litigation which was \u201cthe first time there was a rejection [of a case before the CAT based] on the theories of harm methodology\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baker McKenzie\u2019s Canadian class actions<\/a> group chair David Gadsden stated that changes in the country\u2019s federal competition law regulations \u201chave opened up a new form of collective relief before the Competition Tribunal, [where] private parties can [\u2026] seek relief against anti-competitive conduct\u201d. The traditional grounds of refusal to deal and abuse of dominance have been expanded to cover other areas such as deceptive marketing, with a newly expanded scope for relief. \u201cDespite these changes, there are no established safeguards [akin to those] in the court system, like class certification or court approved settlements,\u201d he added, suggesting that substantially greater class action risk is on the cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving an insight into the US claimant lawyer\u2019s mindset was David Scott, managing partner at claimant boutique Scott+Scott in New York, who noted: \u201cThere is a lot of cross-pollination between claims in the US, and in the UK and EU.\u201d He distilled competition matters into two aspects, starting with where the financial pressure is centred: \u201cWith record inflation and tariffs, where retailers are being squeezed for margin, is a perfect confluence of issues where commodity-based products are subject to anti-competitive conduct; margins being squeezed means price fixing.\u201d The second aspect is a 10 to 15-year cycle for such cases, since the management, and therefore the institutional memory of the consequences of anti-competitive conduct, is likely to have left the company in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Tech; big claims<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Big Tech continues to make huge waves in the class action context, accelerated by its global nature and relentless encroachment into so many aspects of commercial and everyday life, and served as the foundation for the morning\u2019s third panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooley London partner Bryony Hurst, moderating the discussion, reminded the audience of what now seems to have been a rhetorical question from last year: \u201cAre actions against Big Tech going to slow?\u201d She listed the array of causes of action currently besieging the sector, including personal data misuse related to adtech, stifling of competition, and online safety breaches including addictive design and dark patterns<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yana Hart, a partner at claimant-focused Clarkson Law Firm, opined that such firms have a vital role to play in filling the regulatory vacuum at the early stages of a breach, and stimulating a wider conversation about the probity of the Big Tech sector\u2019s conduct: \u201cI like to think that, as [claimant] lawyers in the US, we inspire regulators \u2013 we don\u2019t wait for them to act, and if we did it would take years for anything to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the same side, John Yanchunis, lead lawyer for class actions at Morgan & Morgan in Tampa, spoke of the increasing US trend towards cases based on misuse of information: \u201cCompanies are going to figure out ways of harvesting information, \u2018the new oil\u2019, although Google says it is \u2018the new gold\u2019, and it now drives a lot of economies as companies [increasingly] don\u2019t make anything, but [instead] monetise data.\u201d Yanchunis also offered a pithy anecdote in a question he asked during a medical information data breach litigation: \u201cWhy are you keeping [all] this information?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Lomba, partner and head of technology, media and telecommunications at PLMJ in Lisbon, observed that AI does not yet form a big part of Portugal\u2019s class action litigation scene, which is currently focused on \u201callegedly unlawful data processing, tracking and online safety issues\u201d. Looking to the future, he tipped \u201cissues around marketplace design, automatic renewals, the subscription economy and [related] practices [as] prominent areas for class actions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shrinking securities class actions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Lieberman, managing partner at claimant firm Pomerantz, moderated the fourth and final discussion of the morning centred on securities class actions which, despite remaining relatively stable in number of cases brought, have seen a higher proportion of dismissals of late, with the US a leading proponent of this trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lieberman set the scene by drawing attention to the raft of \u201cpotentially seismic\u201d changes wrought by the Trump administration, with a major development being the reversal of<\/a> the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)\u2019s previous policy that any company with a mandatory arbitration clause cannot proceed to an initial public offering (IPO). \u201cBut [SEC chair Paul] Atkins has said this is no longer the policy, [and thus is] now allowing companies to skirt class actions, which is potentially bad for the US\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carol Gilden, an ex-enforcement lawyer at the SEC who is now a securities litigation and investor protection partner at Cohen Milstein in Chicago, viewed this abrupt policy change as akin to \u201copening Pandora\u2019s Box\u201d, further adding: \u201cThis change stands the role of the SEC on its head \u2013 the potential investor impact is serious, and the integrity of the capital markets is also quite serious [as] companies come to the US market to raise capital, and it is quite well established that companies obtain a premium on the valuation of securities, and [all parties] know they have the backing of securities laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Cooper, partner and head of securities and M&A litigation at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, agreed the change could have many disadvantages: \u201cIf there is an arbitration requirement and parties can only bring individual arbitrations, potentially hundreds of claims will have to be arbitrated or litigated separately. The important thing about [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure] Rule 23\u2019s opt-out mechanism is it\u2019s a way to resolve all claims against defendants [in one go] and get global peace,\u201d he insists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Cain, an affiliate academic expert at New York-headquartered expert testimony provider Fideres, offered a summary of what he is seeing internationally: \u201cThere is a small uptick in cases filed outside the US, with some in Canada [where there is a representation of] both a US and Canadian insurer, and some parallel litigation in the US.\u201d In the aftermath of Morrison v National Australia Bank<\/em><\/a>, he has observed battles over territorial issues, and the court test which permits a party to establish a securities claim under US law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is part of CDR\u2019s coverage of the 2025 Global Class Actions Symposium:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abolishing class actions would be \u2018cowardly\u2019 says Gutmann<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FCJ head causes funding stir<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changing times in the UK and abroad<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK decertification cases \u2018only a matter of time\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combining preventative and remedial forces<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strong feelings over mass arbitration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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