Collective or Class Actions and Claims Aggregation in the EU: the Claimant’s Perspective

An extract from GCR’s Private Litigation Guide – First Edition. The whole publication is available to purchase on GCR’s website. Private enforcement of competition law in Europe has in the past decade been driven in large part by the aggregation and  enforcement of damages claims brought by multiple companies affected by the same competition law infringement […]

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The Spanish paper envelopes cartel: Compensation over 40 years later

In 1977, Spain celebrated its first democratic elections in the aftermath of the transition from dictatorship to full democracy. The leading five paper envelope producers used the occasion to create and establish one of the most harmful cartels in Spanish Public Procurement history. Before the elections took place, the transition government were required to buy […]

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