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AlixPartners has extensive experience applying rigorous and fact-based economic analysis to issues pertaining to class actions throughout all stages, from class certification through merits to settlement or trial. The firm’s experience includes class actions in the areas of antitrust, false and misleading advertising, securities, financial products and services, consumer products, and more.
Mat Hughes, Managing Director and Partner at AlixPartners, will speak at the Global Class Actions and Mass Torts Conference, organized by Perfect Law. The event will be held in London at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge on 24 and 25 April 2025.
Mat Hughes is a professional antitrust economist with 35 years of experience. Who’s Who Legal 2023 describes Mat as a super smart competition economist gifted with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly. Before joining AlixPartners, Mat was chief economist in the competition department at Ashurst LLP. Mat has spoken and written on economic analysis under UK and EC competition law, including competition law pleadings, pharma pay for delay, competition damages, the UK collective action regime, and standalone competition law actions.
The Boundary Fares Claims
AlixPartners are advising a class of London rail passengers in a collective action against two London train operating companies. The claim involves boundary fares, which allow passengers who own a London Travelcard to travel beyond the zones covered by their Travelcard without doubling up on payment.
At issue is whether the train companies made boundary fares available for Travelcard holders to purchase. If not, as alleged by the class representative, Justin Gutmann, these customers would have paid twice for a segment of specific journeys.
The class representative says that this imposition of unfair prices is an abuse of the rail companies’ dominant market position and in breach of UK and EU competition laws. AlixPartners’ role has been to quantify damages and to advise on the market definition and dominance aspects of the case.
