Antitrust Chronicle® – Private Enforcement

Dear Readers,

The first CPI Antitrust Chronicle® for February 2019 looks at the issue of private enforcement of antitrust laws from the view point of different jurisdictions.

As opposed to public enforcement of competition laws, private enforcement, according to the OECD, can be defined generally as “litigation initiated by an individual, a legal entity, an organisation or a public entity (such as local government and procurement agency in the bid-rigging case) to have a court establish an an