EDUCATION
Smith College, US (BA, Economics and Government, 2000 – 2004); University of Cambridge, UK (MPhil, Contemporary European Studies, 2004 – 2005); BPP Law School, UK (Graduate Diploma in Law, 2006 – 2007; Legal Practice Course, 2007 – 2008)
Tamsin Rankine-Fourdraine
Associate / Solicitor Advocate
- +44 (0) 203 655 3636
- trf@brsllp.com
- London
Tamsin is an Associate and Solicitor Advocate in the London office, having joined in 2024.
Before joining BRS, Tamsin was an Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills working primarily on competition litigation cases, assisting clients before the Competition Appeal Tribunal and across Europe. As a Trainee, Tamsin spent six months working in Sky’s commercial and IP litigation department. Tamsin has also worked for the UK Government, assisting their commercial litigation team with procurement and competition litigation.
Notable representative matters include:
- Acting for MasterCard in its defence of the proposed £14bn opt-out collective action by consumers, which was among the largest claims brought in English legal history and one of the first collective actions under the UK’s collective action regime;
- Acting for ABB in co-ordinating its defence of claims in the UK and other jurisdictions arising from the gas insulated switchgear and power cables cartels;
- Acting for parties in follow-on litigation including arising from the synthetic rubber and the air cargo cartels; and
- Acting for a multinational company in the pharma sector on an internal antitrust investigation and related restructuring of internal processes.
Lauma is fluent in Latvian and has a working level knowledge of French and Russian. Other linguistics projects include Arabic, Japanese and German.
