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CDC’s views on the enforcement of antitrust damage claims are regularly sought by a variety of institutions and stakeholders. Given our in-depth understanding and broad experience, CDC’s specialists are often invited as speakers to international conferences and seminars throughout Europe.

Upcoming Conferences

Till Schreiber will be part of a business panel at the V Valencia International Meeting on Competition Law. This year’s topic will be “THE ROLE OF LITIGITATION FUNDS IN MASS B2b LITIGATION IN DIGITAL MARKETS “. The event features the participation of national and international academics of the highest relevance in the field of competition Law and will be in English. Attendance at the congress is possible both in person and online, prior registration here.

Please find the programm here.

🗓️ Date: June 19, 2025
⏰ Time: 12:30 pm CET; University of Valencia Law School, Conference Room “Salón de Grados”, Valencia, Spain

Past Conferences

Till Schreiber was part of a business panel at the V Valencia International Meeting on Competition Law. This year’s topic was “THE ROLE OF LITIGITATION FUNDS IN MASS B2b LITIGATION IN DIGITAL MARKETS “. 

Please find the programm here.

🗓️ Date: June 19, 2025
⏰ Time: 12:30 pm CET; University of Valencia Law School, Conference Room “Salón de Grados”, Valencia, Spain

Martin Seegers discussed Collective Actions & Claims Bundling: Latest Developments on the 11th Annual CompLaw: Private Enforcement conference. It took place on Tuesday 11th February 2025, Steigenberger Wiltcher’s, Brussels.

More info here.

🗓️  Date: February 11, 2025
⏰ Time: 15:50 pm CET; Steigenberger Wiltcher’s, Brussels, Belgium

Carsten Krüger spoke at the Kilpailuoikeus 2024 | Competition Law 2024 about private enforcement of competition law in Europe.

Full program  here.

🗓️  Date: October 31, 2024
⏰  Time: 13:50 CET; Clarion Hotel Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Till Schreiber spoke at the eminent conference on preliminary rulings in Luxembourg and their impact on private enforcement of competition law organised by the University of Deusto and the University of Valladolid.

The conference covered key aspects of private antitrust litigation such as limitation periods after Heureka, private international law and digital markets, the relationship between public and private enforcement, collective actions against Big Tech and litigation funding.

Full program  here.

🗓️  Date: October 11, 2024
⏰  Time: 15:00 CET; Voxel School . C. de los Vascos 25, Madrid, Spain

Ben Bornemann participated in a panel session on “Cartel Damages Quantification: How do European Courts assess overcharges?” at the Lear Competition Festival (LCF).

🗓️  Date: September 26, 2024
⏰  Time: 15:00 CET; WeGil, Largo Ascianghi 5, Rome – Italy

Martin Seegers participated in a panel session on “Litigation Strategy: Managing Collective Claims Across Jurisdictions” at the 26th annual Competition Law Summer School on August 9th 2024 in Downing College, Cambridge.

Get your ticket here.

🗓️  Date: August 9, 2024
⏰  Time: 11:40 am; Downing College, Cambridge

Till Schreiber participated in a panel discussion on “Exploring Strategies for Multi-Jurisdictional Action and an Overview of European Collective Regimes” at the Competition Collective Actions Forum 2024.

More info here.

🗓️  Date: June 6, 2024
⏰ Time: 11:45 – 12:30; Central London, United Kingdom

Till Schreiber was part of the Madrid Competition Litigation Seminar.

Attendance was by invitation only. Places are limited and Chatham House rules apply. Its guiding spirit is: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it.

🗓️  Date: May 6-7, 2024
⏰ Time: 6th may 12:00 to 7th may 15:30; Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Campus Moncloa, School of Economics and Business, Madrid, Spain.

Carsten Krüger was part of a panel and discuss the impending European Collective Redress Directive.

🗓️ Date: February 20, 2024
⏰ Time: 12:00 CET; Webinar

Dr Danilo Samà was speaking at the Associate Partners Meeting within the European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) on 16 February 2024 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

🗓️ Date: February 16, 2024
⏰ Time: 09:00 – 20:00 CET; Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Martin Seegers participated in a panel session on “Collective Actions, Claims Bundling & Claims Aggregation: Approaches across Europe” at the CompLaw Private Enforcement of Competition Law conference, which will tooke place on Thursday 8th February 2024, Brussels.

🗓️ Date: February 08, 2024
⏰ Time: 12:05 CET; Le Châtelain Hotel, Brussels, Belgium

The programme of the conference can be found here.

Till Schreiber was part of the course “Kollektiver Rechtsschutz” at the university Bucerius Law School.

🗓️  Date: January 18, 2024
⏰ Time: 16:00 CET; Room 0.59, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany.

Till Schreiber spoke at the conference “El problemático acceso de los consumidores a la justicia: acciones colectivas y otros remedios” about market solutions for a fair access to justice.

🗓️  Date: December 15, 2023
⏰ Time: 12:30 CET; Salón de Grados de la Facultad de Derecho, University of Valladolid, Spain

Till Schreiber spoke at the European Forum on Competition Litigation 2023.

🗓️  Date: November 15, 2023

Martin Seegers spoke at the conference “Disclosure in Antitrust Damages Actions in Europe”.

More Info here.

🗓️  Date: November 03, 2023
⏰ Time: 10:00 CET; University of Vienna, Alte Kapelle, Austria

Martin Seegers discussed Post-Brexit developments in the UK and EU together with Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, Nigel Seay and Ana Rita Barroca at the GCR Live Competition Litigation Conference.

The programme for the conference can be found here.

🗓️  Date: October 05, 2023
⏰ Time: 11:25 pm CET; London, United Kingdom

Ben Bornemann spoke at the Nivalion Legal Finance Summit 2023, participating in a panel on technical solutions in claims handling.

🗓️  Date: September 27, 2023
⏰ Time: 13:30 pm CET; Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Martin was part of the 10th Annual Competition Litigation Conference organized by Brick Court Chambers, Freshfields and MLex. Martin discussed the Brexit impact on litigation in and outside the UK, together with Ermelinda Spinelli, Freshfields, Sarah Love, Brick Court Chambers and James Williamson, HWF Partners.

More Info here.

🗓️  Date: September 22, 2023
⏰ Time: 8:30 – 17:30 CET; London, United Kingdom

Martin Seegers was part of the 25th annual Competition Law Summer School on the 04. August 2023 in Downing College, Cambridge.

🗓️  Date: August 4, 2023
⏰ Time: 10:20 pm CET; Downing College, Cambridge

Till Schreiber was part of the Webinar “Private Antitrust Litigation in Italy: Opportunities, Risks, Recent Developments, and Horizon Scanning” on the 07. July 2023 hosted by ThoughtLeaders4 Competition | TL4C .

https://thoughtleaders4.com/competition/competition-event/private-antitrust-litigation-in-italy-opportunities-risks-recent-developments-and-horizon-scanning

🗓️ Date: July 7, 2023
⏰ Time: 12:00 pm CET; virtual event (Zoom)

On 16 June 2023, Vasil SAVOV spoke on damages actions before national courts following bid-rigging practices at a seminar on European public procurement law organised in Trier by the European Judicial Training Network and the Academy of European Law (ERA).

Till Schreiber spoke at the “2023 Antitrust Global Private Litigation Conference”, which takes place on 11.-12. June in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Till Schreiber spoke at “The Competition Collective Actions Forum 2023” on 6th June 2023 about “Contrasting Current European Collective Regimes and Potential for Cross Border Actions” together with Miguel Sousa Ferro and Edward Coulson.

Till Schreiber spoke at the IX Antitrust Conference, organised by University of Trento – Faculty of Law and Osservatorio Permanente sull’Applicazione delle Regole di Concorrenza, participating to the panel “Private antitrust enforcement: Recent developments from the Italian and European Union Courts” 2023 in Trento, Italy.

Martin Seegers spoke at the 32nd Annual Conference “Advanced EU Competition Law, London” on 25 – 26 April 2023. Join the session on 25th April about “Private Enforcement: Class Actions, Big Tech & Other Hot Topics” together with James Flynn KC, Heico Kerkmeester, Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, Vivien Terrien and Fraser Davison.

Dr Danilo Samà spoke at the conference “Litigation funding in Italy: how to create value from commercial litigation”, organised by FiDeAL in cooperation with 4cLegal and Le Village by CA Triveneto, on Friday 10 March 2023 in Padua, Italy.

Ben Bornemann spoke at The Nuts and Bolts of Mass Actions in San Diego 22-23 February.

Ben was part of a panel on cartel damage litigation and antitrust mass actions in the EU and US with Kate Baxter-Kauf, Miguel Sousa Ferro, and Thomas G. Funke.

Martin Seegers spoke at the CompLaw Private Enforcement of Competition Law Conference in Brussels on 7 February 2023.

https://informaconnect.com/private-enforcement/agenda/1/

Danilo Samà was part of the webinar “How to extract value from damages suffered by a company. The case of antitrust damage claims”, organised by the Italian Association of Corporate Lawyers (AIGI), on 23 November 2022.

Martin Seegers was part of the conference “20 Years of Regulation 1/2003: Competition Law Procedure in Need for an Upgrade” on 10 – 11 November 2022.
Please find more information here.

Carsten Krüger spoke on collective redress at the ‘Day of German-Dutch legal relationships’ on 10 November 2022. Please find more information here.

Martin Seegers was part of the conference “Private and public enforcement of EU economic law” on 4 November 2022, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg.

https://www.mpi.lu/news-and-events/2022/november/04/private-and-public-enforcement-of-eu-economic-law/

Our managing director Till Schreiber spoke at the Nivalion Legal Finance Summit on 6/7 September in Frankfurt. Together with Samantha Haigh, Boris Bronfentrinker, Machteld de Monchy and Andreas Heinrich he discussed the status quo and future of claims bundling, Opt-in and Opt-out trends in Europe.

https://nivalionsummit.com/

Our managing director Till Schreiber spoke at the ForoCompetencia Virtual Breakfast on 30 August.

“Acciones de daños por temas antitrust” – Till Schreiber (Cartel Damage Claims, Bélgica) y Patricia Vidal (Uría Menéndez, España)

Have a look: https://www.forocompetencia.com/desayunos-virtuales

Vasis Savov spoke at the 4TH ANNUAL Competition Law Central & Eastern Europe on 6 July 2022.

Till Schreiber spoke at the 4th International Class Action Conference in Amsterdam on 1st July 2022.

Carsten Krüger spoke at the Luxembourg Arbitration Day 2022 at the Luxembourg Chambre de Commerce on 27 April 2022.

Martin Seegers spoke at the CompLaw Private Enforcement of Competition Law Conference in Brussels on 31 March 2022.

Danilo Samà spoke at the Associate Partners Meeting within the European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) on 18 February 2022.

Till Schreiber spoke at the Competition Law Transport: Aviation, Shipping, Motor Vehicle and Rail digital conference.

https://informaconnect.com/competition-law-in-transport/

Till Schreiber spoke at the 4th IBCI International Conference on Competition and Innovation in November 2021.

Watch on YouTube 

Till Schreiber spoke at European Competition Lawyers Association Conference in Madrid in September 2021. 

 https://www.competitionlawyers.org/events/

Till Schreiber spoke at the conference on the topic “Legal finance – How to conduct cost- and risk-free litigation or arbitration?”

http://www.sloarbitration.eu/en/News/News-and-Events/ID/150/Legal-finance-How-to-conduct-cost-and-risk-free-litigation-or-arbitration

Martin Seegers spoke at GCR Live: Competition Litigation conference 2021.

https://events.globalcompetitionreview.com/event/3ee43278-6443-4fe6-be37-9e99559158e0/websitePage:4a9f1ae7-fd5e-40ea-a47b-8748de11f650

Martin Seegers spoke on Private Enforcement of Competition Law on 9 March 2021
 

https://informaconnect.com/private-enforcement/

Martin Seegers spoke at the conference on ‘Private Enforcement of Competition Law‘ in Brussels on 4 March 2020.
Marc Barennes spoke about antitrust damage claims at the EIB competition law seminar in Madrid on 31 January 2020.
Martin Seegers spoke at the conference ‘L&A–Wettbewerbstag 2020: Wettbewerbsökonomie und Kartellrecht im Dialog‘ in Hamburg on 16 January 2020.
Marc Barennes participated in the ICN webinar about “competition damages” on 11 December 2019.
Marc Barennes spoke at a conference organised by ‘Delegation des barreaux de France’ in Brussels on 6 December 2019.
Till Schreiber and Vasil Savov spoke at the AIJA Conference in Lyon on 4/5 October 2019.
Marc Barennes participated in a competition law seminar for the training of Belgian judges in Brussels on 27 September 2019.
Till Schreiber spoke at the DIS Autumn Conference in Berlin on 10/11 September 2019.
Ben Bornemann lectured on private enforcement of competition law at the College of Europe in Bruges on 9 July 2019.
Marc Barennes spoke about private enforcement of competition law in Europe at the CAS International Competition Law and Compliance 2019 conference in Zurich on 5 July 2019.
Marc Barennes spoke about private enforcement of competition law in Europe at the CAS International Competition Law and Compliance 2019 conference in Zurich on 5 July 2019.
 

 

Till Schreiber participated in a panel discussion about the trucks cartel litigation and other developments in follow-on damages actions at the conference Competition law challenges in the motor vehicle sector in Brussels on 25 June 2019.
Jakob Rüggeberg  spoke at the Trento Summer School on Advanced EU Competition Law and Economics in Italy on 22 June 2019.
 

 

Marc Barennes spoke about the rise of private enforcement of competition law at a conference organised by Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Paris on 22 June 2019.
 

 

Marc Barennes spoke about private enforcement of competition law at a conference in Luxembourg on 11 June 2019 organised by the Association of Competition Lawyers in Luxembourg (ALEDC) and the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce.
Ben Bornemann participated in a panel discussion on the quantification of damages at the Training of National Judges seminar in Valencia on 21 June 2019.
Till Schreiber  participated in a panel discussion at the Trento Antitrust Conference on 12 April 2019
Till Schreiber participated in a panel discussion on competition and securities class actions at the 2019 Class Action Conference in Haifa, Israel on 28 March 2019.
Martin Seegers participated in a panel discussion at the Knect365 conference on Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Brussels 26 February 2019.
Vasil Savov spoke at a conference on the contemporary evolution of harm in Paris on 1 February 2019.

Carsten Krüger participated in the roundtable discussion on ‘Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law – The Impact of the Damages Directive’ organised by the FCP Florence Competition Programme in Brussels on 24 January 2019.

Carsten Krüger spoke at the conference ‘Global Governance and Enforcement of Competition Law’ at the University of Exeter on 14 December 2018.

Till Schreiber spoke at the European Forum on Competition Litigation in Surrey, UK on 28 – 30 November 2018.
 

 

Vasil Savov participated in a round table discussion about competition litigation in Paris on 23 November 2018 at the Tribunal de commerce de Paris.
Martin Seegers gave a lecture on the Private Enforcement of Competition Law on 9 November at SciencePo, Paris.
Till Schreiber spoke about the trucks cartel at a conference in Brussels on 26 June 2018.
Till Schreiber spoke at a conference about litigation financing in Madrid on 8 April 2018.
Till Schreiber spoke at the ILEX conference about the rise of litigation finance in Düsseldorf on 19 April 2018.
Vasil Savov spoke at the Concurrences conference in Paris on 29 March 2018 concerning private enforcement of competition law.
Till Schreiber participated in a panel discussion on strategic concerns in private enforcement cases at the Private Enforcement of Competition Law Agenda in Brussels on 27 February 2018.
Till Schreiber participated at the ‘European Forum on Competition Litigation‘ in Surrey, United Kingdom from 15 – 17 November 2017.
Martin Seegers spoke at a GCR conference in Düsseldorf on 16 November 2017.
Ulrich Classen spoke in Florence on 20 October 2017 at the European University Institute’s conference on antitrust and anti-globalisation.
Till Schreiber spoke in Berlin on 12 October 2017 at a conference on Private Antitrust Enforcement.
Till Schreiber participated in a panel discussion at the ISEL Private Enforcement of Competition Law Conference in Dublin, Ireland on 6 October 2017.
 
 

 

Jakob Rüggeberg spoke at the third edition of the Trento Summer School on Advanced EU Competition Law & Economics on 24 June 2017.
Till Schreiber made the keynote address at the conference on ‘EU competition law and the new private enforcement regime’ in Uppsala, Sweden on 13 June 2017.
Till Schreiber participated in a panel discussion on 12 May 2017 in Amsterdam at the conference entitled ‘Economic Evidence in Competition Law and the Future of the More Economic Approach‘.
Till Schreiber acted as moderator in a panel discussion at the Global Private Litigation conference in Amsterdam on 08 May 2017. The panel discussed issues such as funding and claims aggregation.
Vasil Savov spoke in Brussels on 19 April 2017 at an annual conference on developments in Belgian competition law.
Jakob Rüggeberg spoke at a seminar on ‘compensation of damages arising out of cartels’ in Valencia, Spain on 11 March 2017.
Vasil Savov spoke at a conference in Paris on 10 March 2017 concerning the implementation of the Directive into French law.
Till Schreiber spoke at a conference on private enforcement of competition law in Brussels on 27 February 2017.
Martin Seegers spoke at a seminar on European competition law in Budapest on 24/25 February 2017.
Carsten Krüger spoke at the conference ‘La Transposición de la Directiva de daños en materia de competencia. Directiva 2014/104/UE’ in Valencia on 16 December 2016.
Martin Seegers spoke at a Global Competition Litigation seminar in Paris on 25 November 2016.
Till Schreiber participated in a panel discussion at the ILEX inaugural conference in Frankfurt on 24 November 2016.
Carsten Krüger spoke at the European Competition Day in Bratislava on 23 November 2016.
Ulrich Classen made a presentation in Mannheim on Friday 11 November 2016 at the MaCCI Law and Economics Conference on ‘Cartel Damages in Europe: The New Framework after the Directive’.
Ulrich Classen made a presentation in Budapest on 30 October 2016 at the 60th UIA Annual Congress.
Carsten Krüger spoke at the Forum für Zivilrecht in Traunkirchen on 19 September 2016.
On 04 July 2016, Till Schreiber participated in a panel discussion on litigation funding in relation to antitrust damage claims at the Madrid Bar Association.
Carsten Krüger spoke at the ABA Section of International Law 2016 Europe Forum in Rome on 30 May 2016.
Carsten Krüger spoke at the Annual Conference of the Leibniz Science Campus of the MaCCI Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation on 4 March 2016.

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