Lucy is a partner at Hausfeld & Co.
She specialises in large-scale collective redress, and has particular expertise in opt-out collective actions brought before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and opt-in claims via a GLO. Lucy started her career in the competition group at Slaughter and May, following which she moved to the Office of Fair Trading (now the Competition and Markets Authority) and then to Which?, where she advised on competition and consumer law matters. Lucy joined Hausfeld in 2017 acting in two opt-out collective actions under the UK’s class actions regime introduced by the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Notably, Lucy was part of the team which filed the country’s first standalone opt-out claims on behalf of rail passengers in 2019 and that which represented the Consumers’ Association (Which?) in its intervention in Mastercard v Merricks before the Supreme Court in 2020. Most recently, Lucy worked for client Privacy International in its intervention in the European Commission’s review of Google’s acquisition of Fitbit.