Antitrust proceedings are often complicated, time-consuming and costly. Calculating and proving the damage is only possible with a great deal of data.

The clear advantages of working with us are:

1. strong team of experienced experts - In order to assert your claims professionally and successfully, we work with the renowned law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. The law firm has considerable experience and an exceptional reputation in this field, so you will be looked after by a strong team of experts.

2. intelligent IT solutions - Thanks to our efficient and specialized IT infrastructure, we offer you the best possible solution to assert your claims

3. no cost risk - we take over the enforcement of your claims on the basis of a pure success commission of the damages obtained. We bundle the claims of our customers. This makes it possible for many truck customers to successfully enforce their claims, as the Anti Cartell Alliance bears all costs and risks.

Of course, anyone who has purchased or leased a truck, or acquired a truck through hire purchase, can attempt to find a solution with the truck manufacturers alone. As a rule, however, such an approach is likely to be futile. At this time, truck manufacturers are either not prepared to negotiate, or at best are offering economic concessions on future purchases, hire purchases or leases of trucks. However, such purportedly better terms will certainly be well below what is likely to be the damage, which is roughly estimated at 5% to 20% of the purchase price, plus interest.

You can register trucks with the procurement years January 17, 1997 to 2016 with us. The cartel period identified by the European Commission lasted from January 17, 1997 to January 19, 2011; we currently assume that the cartel may have had after-effects until 2016.

The actual damage for each individual truck depends on several aspects, such as the manufacturere as well as the date of acquisition. From the present data our economical expert calculated an average damage of several thousand euros per truck.

We enforce claims in connection with the following criteria:

• Trucks with a gross vehicle weight of 6 tons or more
• Acquisition between January 17, 1997 and 31.12.2016
• New vehicles from the manufacturers Daimler, Volvo/Renault, MAN, Iveco, DAF and Scania
• Purchase, leasing and hire purchase

No, unfortunately, we do not enforce any damages claims for rented trucks.

The Anti Cartell Alliance enforces your claims on the basis of a pure success commission. We bear the costs of the proceedings. There are no hidden fees or other costs. You only pay us a success fee from 30% of the compensation claim paid if we are successful. If we are unsuccessful, your company will not have to bear any costs.

The decision of the European Commission of 19 July 2016 determined, after many years of investigation, that the truck manufacturers Daimler, DAF, IVECO, MAN and Volvo/Renault formed a cartel regarding secret price fixing from 1997 to 2011.

For such violations, the EU Commission imposed a monetary penalty of 2.927 billion euros against the cartel members. The manufacturer Scania had rejected the cartel allegations. Only MAN was able to achieve leniency from the fine, since the truck manufacturer, as a key witness, informed the Commission of the cartel.

You can read the decision of the European Commission of 19 July 2016 here.

On 27 September 2017, Scania was also subject to a fine of 880 million euros for impermissible price fixing. Scania contested the decision.

Please also read the decision of the European Commission against the truck manufacturer Scania.

Yes, you can with us. Colloquially, a class action refers to the bundling of claims that are pursued together in a single action. Paragraph 260 of the German Code of Civil Procedure expressly provides for the bundling of similar claims against the same defendant, as one court case avoids a large number of further proceedings. Due to the assignment of the trust, Anti Cartell Alliance is able to bundle the claims of the affected truck purchasers and pursue them jointly in one or more lawsuits. Such "class actions" have long been common practice in cartel damages proceedings.