Experience

• Represented Asda, Argos and Morrisons in their landmark Supreme Court victory, against Mastercard in the long-running multilateral interchange fee litigation – described as the largest and most complex cartel damages claim conducted in the English Courts to date.
• Acting for Swiss-based LafargeHolcim, one of the world’s largest building suppliers, in relation to its multi-million Euro pan-European truck cartel claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

• Acted for iiyama, one of the world’s largest global electronics manufacturers, in two separate cartel damages claims concerning CRTs and LCDs respectively. Our client successfully defended jurisdiction challenges in the Court of Appeal, changing the territorial scope of such claims in the English courts.
• 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.
• Acted for Comet in relation to the refrigeration compressor cartel, including successfully obtaining pre-action disclosure pursuant to the Insolvency Act 1986 section 236, a purpose for which s236 had not been used before in a cartel damages claim.

Expertise

The breadth of Stuart’s experience in this specialist area is extensive, having acted in the most high-profile competition litigation cases in the UK and Europe on behalf of major global corporates. Stuart’s clients span a wide number of industries, including construction, energy, retail, manufacturing, and technology.

Stuart has acted for clients in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, and the Competition Appeal Tribunal. He has also acted for group claimants to trial and subsequent appeals.

Career

Stuart has worked exclusively in his specialist area since joining Stewarts in 2011, before which he worked in-house for global energy giant Engie for a number of years, dealing with high-value commercial litigation. Stuart became a partner in 2018.

Publications and Media

Stuart is a regular contributor to a wide variety of legal journals and a speaker at various competition and class action conferences. Articles written by Stuart have featured in the FT, The Lawyer, LexisNexis, Competition Law Insight, the Solicitors Journal, Accountancy Age and Global Banking & Finance Review. He has:

• Co-authored a practice note for LexisNexis on litigation funding
• Co-authored an expert chapter for Corporate Live Wire “Competition & Antitrust 2021”

Co-authored the cost and funding briefing for the Legal Business Disputes Yearbook 2022

Recognition

Testimonials include:

“Stuart Carson is super smart and great to work with. Very entrepreneurial” – The Legal 500

“Always on top of the detail and build very good rapport with both clients and counsel” – The Legal 500

“It’s his management of the case, his dealing with the opponents and his own clients, that makes him really stand out” – Chambers & Partners