Case has been retained by one of the co-defendants in the prospective Elisabetta Sciallis collective proceeding order (CPO) application before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) arising from the UK Competition and Mergers Authority’s (CMA) ‘musical instruments’ infringement decision of 2019 which found that several musical instrument manufacturers engaged in resale price maintenance thereby committing a […]

Case has been retained by a defendant in an unusual follow-on ‘underprice’ damages claim brought before a Dutch court by suppliers alleging that it exchanged information with several other buyers with the object (and effect) of lowering monthly contract prices.  

A Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) action brought by an online retailer before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) was successfully settled in favour of the Claimant.  Case quantified the claimant’s past and prospective losses arising from higher prices, and limited and then the refusal to supply, and in a proposed split trial filed an expert […]

Cento Veljanovski contributed ‘Calculating Cartel Damages’ as a chapter in the Research Handbook on Cartels (click to secure a copy) published by Edward Elgar and edited by Peter Whelan. This chapter was nominated for the best academic article in the Antitrust Writing Awards 2022 organised annually by Concurrences and George Washington Law School’s Competition Law Center. 

Cento Veljanovski joined a panel discussion on ‘Can and should policymakers use competition enforcement to promote sustainability goals’ organised by the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid on 24 March 2023.  A spirited exchange of widely different views took place between co-panellist Maurits Dolmans (Cleary Gottlieb), Julian Morris […]

Cento Veljanovski joined the editor Tihamé Tóth (Judge of the General Court of the EU) and other contributors at the launch of The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions in Brussels on 8 March 2023  He participated in a panel discussion with Andras Tóth (Vice-President/Chairman of the Competition Council, Hungarian Competition Authority), Szilágyi Pál (Pázmány Péter Katolikus […]

Cento Veljanovski acted as an expert for an intervenor in the Ryder and Dawson actions against DAF and other truck manufacturers participating in the Trucks’ cartel.  He assessed the parties’ econometric and accounting evidence and the methodologies on pass-on filing several expert reports with the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal. The Dawson and Ryder actions settled […]

Cento Veljanovski gave a presentation to a special policy session at the prestigious CRESSE 16th International Conference on Competition and Regulation, Heraklion, Crete 1-3 July 2022. This brought together economists and lawyers to discuss the use of economics in class actions in the UK, EU and Canada. Cento joined Peter Davis (The Brattle Group), Bruce […]

Veljanovski’s article ‘Calculating Cartel Damages’ has been nominated for the best academic article written in the last year by the Antitrust Writing Awards 2022 organised annually by Concurrences and George Washington Law School’s Competition Law Center. It will appear later this year in P. Whelan ed. Research Handbook on Cartels published by Edward Elgar.

Cento Veljanovski is acting as an expert for an online retailer claiming damages for an illegal resale price maintenance (RPM) and refusal to supply before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).