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Kenny Henderson

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Kenny Henderson is an experienced litigator who represents sophisticated and blue chip clients in high stakes disputes, frequently with a multi-jurisdictional element. He is solutions-oriented, and deploys litigation strategies tailored to deliver commercial objectives. He has particular expertise in regulated sectors, including pharmaceutical and technology claims.

Kenny has acted on many of the highest profile follow-on claims issued in Europe to date. Unusually, he has led matters both on the claimant and the defendant side. He is also active in the developing area of class and group actions, counselling clients both in defending claims and also on strategies for reducing overall exposure in opt-out and opt-in collective proceedings.

Awards & Recognitions

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"Kenny Henderson is a shrewd litigator who is always thinking outside the box."

Legal 500, 2025
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“Kenny Henderson is a star performer… Phenomenal tactical and strategic awareness – always two steps ahead of the other side”.

Legal 500, 2022
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"A favourite among clients, who describe him as 'both a very effective and impressive litigator, and an excellent lawyer'. Furthermore, he is 'responsive and always seeks to advance his clients' interests, as aggressively as appropriate'."

Who’s Who Legal
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Kenny Henderson possesses ‘excellent judgement’, and is well versed at representing blue-chip clients in multi-jurisdictional proceedings.

Who’s Who Legal
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"[he] has the ability to make complex things understandable."

Chambers and Partners
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"able to use his knowledge and experience to cut through the issues."

Chambers and Partners
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"[he is] resourceful [and has] vast cross sectoral experience."

Legal 500

Relevant experience

A global electronics company in defending high profile follow-on damages claims across a range of alleged cross border infringements.
Household name companies in recovering losses incurred by the anticompetitive behaviour of indirect suppliers.
A global pharmaceutical company in a licensing dispute, concerning the life cycle management of a key product.
A technology company in a dispute concerning access to business-critical computer source code.
A range of clients in seeking and defending urgent interim relief.

Publications

Authors the competition litigation chapters of Butterworths Competition Law service.
October 2020 - UK Competition Class Actions: An overview of national case law in the first five years, Concurrences, e-Competitions UK Class actions, Art. N° 96976
September 2020 - New Scottish class action procedure - how will the regime work? Part 2: Beyond the certification stage
July 2020 - Funder liable to pay substantial adverse costs in group litigation
July 2020 - New Scottish class action procedure - how will the regime work? Part 1: The certification stage
July 2020 - EU agrees new class action regime for consumer disputes
April 2020 – “UK competition class actions: The upcoming Supreme Court hearing in Merricks v MasterCard – a trailer”
March 2020 – “Cartel litigation: important ruling that limitation can begin to accrue in advance of a regulator making an infringement decision”
February 2020 – “The High Court offers guidance regarding adverse costs exposure and security for costs in multi-party litigation”
November 2019 – “Litigation funding under review in the trucks cartel litigation”
October 2019 – “Data protection and class actions: iPhone users’ claim against Google gets the go-ahead”
February 2017 - “Brexit and its impact on English Antitrust Claims”, Competition Policy International.
December 2015 - “UK: A New Dawn for Antitrust Class Actions”, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Volume 6, Issue 10
September 2015 - “Is US Class Action Culture Coming to the UK?”, Law 360, New York.

Lectures list

2020 – “A Class, Apart – Class Certification Battles.” Monckton Chambers’ second UK Competition Litigation Conference
2020 – "Class Actions for Breach of Data Protection." ICLG Global Class Action Symposium
2019 - “MasterCard and after – (competition class actions).” CDR Autumn Competition Litigation Symposium 2019.
2019 - “Class actions.” Law.com Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Forum.
2018 - “Mass claims – approaches to the management, coordination and bundling of large numbers of related claims.” Global Competition Review, 10th Annual Competition Litigation Conference.
2018 - “Expert evidence in multinational class action proceedings.” CDR Winter Competition Litigation Symposium.
2018 - “Class action litigation and the Consumer Rights Act 2015.” Thomson Reuters/Practical Law Competition Law Conference.
2018 - "Litigation and private enforcement.” Knect/Informa EU Competition Law Conference
2017 – “Damages and private enforcement.” Thomson Reuters/Practical Law Competition Law Conference.
2017 - "Article 102 claims.” MLex, Freshfields and Brick Court Chambers Competition Litigation Conference
2016 - “The new UK class action regime for competition law cases.” CDR Spring Competition Litigation Symposium.

Education

2000 – Law, LL.B., University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution Alternative Dispute Resolution Commercial Disputes Life Sciences & Healthcare Disputes Technology Disputes Cyber Class Actions

Insights

Global Reach

UK Pay Gap Report 2024