Nicholas advises on competition law, commercial disputes and class actions.

Nicholas heads our London mass claims team and global litigation innovation teams, and co-heads the global antitrust litigation team. He has acted on a number of leading competition/competition damages cases including successfully defending ABB in relation to the BritNed damages claim, acting for Mastercard in its defence of the Merricks class action, and defending actions arising from the Trucks infringement. Nicholas has also advised extensively on benchmark rate conduct, including LIBOR, and advises leading tech companies in relation to claims arising from alleged competition infringements.

Nicholas also has significant claimant and defence experience from other commercial and class disputes, cartel, abuse of dominance, merger litigation and damages cases relating to products such as gas insulted switchgear, rail services, power cables, marine hoses, chemicals newspapers, the digital economy/TMT and envelopes and has appeared in arbitrations and before the EU courts on several occasions.

Nicholas has been highly ranked by directories for a number of years, including Chambers, Who's Who and Expert Guides, with Who's Who describing Nicholas, who is at the "forefront of developing case strategy", as "one of the best in the business when it comes to running high-profile multi-jurisdictional cases". Nicholas is also an honorary associate professor at Exeter University and has been a UK Observer to the United Nations - focusing on competition policy.

He is a native Swedish speaker, and also has French, Russian, Danish and Norwegian language skills.