Litigation, damages and arbitration

We provide expert economic advice to plaintiffs and defendants engaged in private litigation. Our consultants act as independent appointed experts in court and arbitration proceedings and have themselves served as arbitrators.

Through participation in a wide variety of cases, our consultants have helped to expand the toolbox of empirical methods used for damages calculation, cartel analysis and general litigation. They perform in-depth counterfactual scenario analyses to evaluate the economic effects of cartels.

With extensive experience in empirical overcharge and pass-on estimation, we are able to produce robust estimates of cartel overcharges and damages, and provide overcharge estimates for settlement negotiations with national enforcement agencies and in private litigation.

We have valuable experience handling large multi-jurisdictional proceedings, such as the trucks cartel or the airfreight cartel. In the past five years, E.CA Economics has conducted damage assessments in more than 100 markets.

Private litigation – a race to settlement?

Average number of years between decisions and first settlement.

Note that the average time to settlement is removed for 2012 as this year is an outlier.

Source: E.CA Economics based on Friederiszick/Gratz/Rauber (2018)