The victim of an infringement of EU competition law can claim compensation from a subsidiary of a parent company, as long as it is proved that the two companies constituted a single economic unit at the time of the infringement, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled in a judgement on Wednesday 6 October (Case C-882/19).
The European Commission had found in July 2016 that Daimler AG had violated antitrust rules because the German manufacturer had entered into arrangements on truck sales...