ECDA – concept & members

In 2017, a cooperation of European law firms was initiated in the area of cartel damages claims,
which led to the foundation of the European Cartel Damage Alliance (ECDA) in August 2019,
a registered Association under German law seated in Berlin.

Concept

The cooperation of ECDA members is characterized by great mutual trust and is partly based on a long-standing exchange of experience and numerous joint projects between the participating law firms in the field of energy and antitrust law (see also AEEC).

ECDA serves the exchange of experience between its members and the formation of cross-border communities of parties harmed by a cartel / plaintiffs with the aim of increasing the negotiation mass, synergies in the processing of mandates and cost reduction, in particular in the case of assertion of claims or beneficial terms vis-à-vis the litigation funder.

The antitrust lawyers within the network have several years of experience in the field of enforcement of cartel damages claims, starting with the fire trucks cartel (representation of the municipal side), to the rail cartel (representation of public and private companies), specific energy cartels such as the GIS or the power transformers cartel (representation of network operators and industrial companies) and the trucks cartel (representation of the broad spectrum of truck buyers) and currently the high voltage power cables cartel.

Finally, ECDA members have established a cartel radar system, i.e. they observe European cartel proceedings from the investigations to the final (binding) decision in order to inform potentially harmed parties about current developments in due course.

Members

News

September

2022

29 -

30

HORTEN/ECDA - AUTUMN BUSINESS MEETING in Copenhagen

Perspectives on competition damages cases

To register please click here.

May

2022

12-

13

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés/ECDA SPRING BUSINESS MEETING in Paris

Information about the Farmed Salmon Cartel case: useful preparation for customers; risks and chances of cartel damages claims

Postponed to a later date.

26

August

2021

ECDA/FORIS - 1st Competition Day

New developments in the field of private enforcement of competition law and litigation funding for companies in Europe

In view of the Corona virus situation our ECDA/FORIS 1st Competition Day took place online on 26 August 2021 (see agenda). However, the online format did not hinder our excellent speakers to hold passionate speaches about the future of the private enforcement of competition law. The participants have been welcomed by Prof. Hanns-Ferdinand Müller, CEO of the litigation funder FORIS AG and Andreas Christensen, partner at the Danish ECDA member Horten. His colleague, Marie Lovbjerg, senior attorney at Horten, moderated the followin speaches. Prof. Dr. Maik Wolf conveyed in his keynote speech the message, that the succes of atitrust dammage claims will in the future depend even more than in the past on an effective public enforcement of competition law. Nataliia Ivanytska, lawyer from the French ECDA member De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés, Dr. Michał Będkowski-Kozioł from the Polish ECDA member Kochanski & Partners and Dr. Holger Hoch, partner counsel from the German ECDA member BBH presented the challenges of the private enforcement of competition law in their respective countries and talked about the benefits for their clients of their mutual cooperation within the network and with the litigation funder FORIS AG. Last but not least, Frederick Iwans, CEO of the FORIS AG, stressed in his closing presentation why litigation funding in cartel damage cases makes sense and which litigation funding cases and strategies are possible. All presentation files are available here:

Ivanytska_De Gaulle Fleurance - Presentation ECDA-FORIS 1st Competition Day 2021

Bedkowski-Koziol_Kochanski - Presentation ECDA-FORIS 1st Competition Day 2021

Hoch_BBH - Presentation ECDA-FORIS 1st Competition Day 2021

Iwans_FORIS - Presentation ECDA-FORIS 1st Competition Day 2021

We thank all speakers and participants for their interesting contributions and questions and are looking forward to our 2nd ECDA/FORIS Competition Day next year, hopefully in person!

Contact information:

ECDA coordinator: Dr. Anna Lesinska-Adamson
Phone +49(0)30 611 28 40-10
info@ecda-online.com

Postal address:
European Cartel Damage Alliance e.V. (ECDA)
Magazinstraße 15-16
10179 Berlin / Germany

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