Ginevra Bicciolo

  • Associate
  • London
  • gbicciolo@hausfeld.com
  • +44 20 7936 0927
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginevrabicciolo
Ginevra Bicciolo

OVERVIEW

Ginevra (Ginny) Bicciolo’s practice focuses on competition litigation, including collective proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), as well as human rights/climate change litigation and general commercial disputes.

Expertise

Ginny has been a pivotal part of the legal teams dealing with the most high-profile competition damages actions in recent years, including various claims on behalf of offshore windfarms arising from the Power Cables Cartel, the ongoing collective actions against Google and Apple in relation to conduct in their app stores, and a proposed multi-billion pound action brought by Nikki Stopford against Google for its alleged conduct in the search and search advertising markets.

In addition, Ginny has acted for Privacy International in its intervention in the CAT appeal concerning the Meta/GIPHY merger, and more recently in its intervention in the European Commission proceedings concerning the Amazon/iRobot merger. Ginny was also part of the legal team instructed by Save the Children in its intervention in Duarte Agostinho & 5 Others v Portugal & 32 Others, the first ground-breaking climate change action brought before the European Court of Human Rights.

Ginny has considerable case management experience for her PQE level, having been involved in proceedings from pre-action stage up to trial and judgment, including ADR and settlement negotiations.

Working towards a diverse, equitable and inclusive work force is paramount to Ginny who is an active member of Hausfeld’s Women’s Alliance Working Group. As a passionate advocate for access to justice, Ginny has also contributed to building Hausfeld’s pro bono practice over the years and is currently a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee.

She is fluent in Italian and English and speaks conversational French.

EDUCATION

LLB English and European Law, Queen Mary University, London
Legal Practice Course, University of Law, London
Cross-Border Commercial Dispute Resolution Course, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Employment & Support Allowance and Personal Independence Appeals training by LawWorks, which qualifies her to represent and advocated clients before the First-tier Tribunal.

BAR ADMISSIONS

Admitted to practice as a solicitor in England & Wales, 2021

NEWS

Multi-billion Google Search claim certified by UK Competition Appeal Tribunal

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Nov 25 2024

Legal 500 UK 2025 recognises 28 Hausfeld lawyers across 7 practice areas

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • Human Rights
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 03 2024

8 Hausfeld lawyers recognised in new Pro Bono Recognition List

  • Human Rights
  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 17 2024

Google faces a £7 billion collective action due to abuse of dominance in search

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Sep 07 2023

Privacy International granted interested third party status in European Commission’s review of Amazon/iRobot merger

  • Technology & Data Breach
  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 22 2023

Meta faces the music as CMA orders it to sell GIPHY

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 20 2022

Key CAT judgment on merger control following Meta challenge

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 17 2022

Privacy International granted permission to intervene in landmark Meta/GIPHY merger review

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Feb 16 2022

The Lawyer identifies Power Cable follow-on cartel claim among the Top 20 litigation for 2022

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jan 12 2022

The Lawyer Awards 2021 commends Hausfeld

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Nov 02 2021

Hausfeld's response to the Government’s consultation on reforming competition and consumer policy

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 06 2021

Hausfeld’s response to the Law Commission’s 14th Programme of Law Reform consultation

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Aug 09 2021

Hausfeld has responded to the Competition and Markets Authority’s invitation to comment on its proposed mobile ecosystems market study

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Aug 02 2021

Google sued for excessive and unlawful charges on its Google Play Store

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 29 2021

Save the Children intervenes in climate change court case brought by young people against 33 countries

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • Human Rights
  • United Kingdom
  • May 11 2021

EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

As-Efficient Competitors: an analysis of the developing role for these legal creatures in assessing exclusionary conduct

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium
  • Dec 13 2024

Reshaping climate justice

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 28 2024

Competition law and sustainability: the case for coherence

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium
  • Feb 27 2024

Enforcement reinforced: the UK Government’s plan to reform competition and consumer law

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • May 20 2022

CMA’s market study on mobile ecosystems: Setting the tone for enforcement in mobile markets

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Feb 28 2022

New Balance v Liverpool FC

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Nov 21 2019

Unconscious bias: uncovering the root cause of gender disparity in the legal profession

  • Human Rights
  • United Kingdom
  • Oct 29 2018

PERSPECTIVES

Human Rights Climate Cases: Developments in Standing Post-Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • May 01 2025

Corporate Climate Responsibility 2.0 - The Shell Appeal

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Nov 15 2024

Abuse of dominance, I presume? The European Commission’s draft guidelines on exclusionary abuses

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Sep 11 2024

The AI buzzword: a look ahead to the coming year

  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Jan 12 2024

Rebalancing the ‘effects-based’ approach: EC set to revamp guidelines on exclusionary abuses

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Apr 20 2023

The CAT judgment in Meta Platforms, Inc. v Competition and Markets Authority: ‘dynamic competition’ upheld?

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 13 2022

Exclusionary non-price abuses under Article 102 TFEU: useful guidance from the CJEU

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 07 2022

Government proposes boost to post-Brexit competition and consumer policy

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 21 2021

Parties beware: control communications with experts to keep litigation on track

  • Commercial & Financial Disputes
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 29 2021

The latest in consumer protection enforcement: online interface orders

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Jun 19 2020

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Legal 500 UK

Ginevra Bicciolo has been recognised as a key lawyer, she is 'notable, someone tipped for the top' - Group Litigation: Claimant, 2025

Pro Bono Recognition List

In 2024, Ginevra was recognised as part of the newly launched Pro Bono Recognition List, published annually, which celebrates solicitors and barristers who have dedicated 25 or more hours of pro bono legal assistance in the previous calendar year. The list is under the patronage of The Lady Chief Justice of England & Wales and is supported by The Law Society, Bar Council and all major pro bono legal organisations.

Experience

Commercial & Financial Disputes

During her time at Hausfeld, Ginevra has been part of the commercial disputes team working on, amongst others:

  • Stuart Wall v The Royal Bank of Scotland.
  • Ventra Investments Limited v Bank of Scotland.
  • New Balance Athletics, Inc v Liverpool FC.
  • The first ever LMAA arbitration taken on by Hausfeld.
  • Multiple arbitrations on behalf of a large aerospace company.

Antitrust/Competition

She has been part of the Hausfeld teams working on ground-breaking competition cases:

  • The opt-out collective action filed with the CAT on behalf of an estimated 19.5 million eligible UK users of smartphones and tablets running on Google’s Android operating system relating to excessive and unlawful charges on purchases in the Google Play Store.The claim argues that Google would be unable to charge customers such excessive and unfair commission if its devices were genuinely open to competitors, and alleges its conduct violates section 18 of the UK Competition Act 1998 and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
  • The opt-out collective action filed with the CAT on behalf of some 19.6 million eligible UK iPhone and iPad users relating to excessive and unlawful charges by the Apple App Store. The claim alleges that Apple’s conduct violates section 18 of the UK Competition Act 1998 and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
  • Competition damages claims following on from the European Commission Decision in relation to the Power Cables cartel.
  • Air Cargo, a landmark competition follow on damages claim in which Hausfeld pursued claims for losses that occurred in over 50 different jurisdictions as a result of the Air Cargo Cartel, ultimately representing 500 claimant entities - including a significant number of multinationals - against British Airways plc, and 13 Part 20 Defendant Airlines in some of the longest running, most high-profile and complex competition damages actions brought to date in the English Courts.
  • Representing class representative Nikki Stopford in her opt-out collective claim against Google, seeking approximately £7bn in redress on behalf of tens of millions of UK consumers.

Human Rights / Environmental & Product Liability

Ginny is part of the Hausfeld team representing Save the Children International in their third party intervention in Duarte Agostinho & 5 Others v Portugal & 32 Others, a ground-breaking climate change case before the European Court of Human Rights, and is an active member of Hausfeld’s ESG & sustainability practice. 

Additionally she is supporting Privacy International in their third party intervention in the European Commission’s investigation into the merger between Amazon and iRobot, which expressed Privacy International’s privacy concerns in relation to the merger.

Previously, she helped launch Hausfeld’s Pro Bono practice, and acted on one of the two first LawWorks cases ever taken on by the firm.

Prior to joining Hausfeld, Ginevra gained experience assisting asylum seekers, refugees and victims of conflict-related violence in their fights for justice.

  • Legal 500 UK, 2025

    She is notable, someone tipped for the top.

What I think

Human Rights Climate Cases: Developments in Standing Post-Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • May 01 2025

Corporate Climate Responsibility 2.0 - The Shell Appeal

  • Environmental & Product Liability
  • United Kingdom
  • Nov 15 2024

Abuse of dominance, I presume? The European Commission’s draft guidelines on exclusionary abuses

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Sep 11 2024

The AI buzzword: a look ahead to the coming year

  • Technology & Data Breach
  • United Kingdom
  • Jan 12 2024

Rebalancing the ‘effects-based’ approach: EC set to revamp guidelines on exclusionary abuses

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Apr 20 2023

The CAT judgment in Meta Platforms, Inc. v Competition and Markets Authority: ‘dynamic competition’ upheld?

  • Antitrust / Competition
  • United Kingdom
  • Jul 13 2022