Method

How it works: your compensation in four steps

From sending your old invoices to the transfer landing in your company account, we carry the whole process.

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Steps in the process
4 weeks
To the firm offer
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To advance
30 days
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A digital process that does not tie up your team

Your directors’ and finance team’s time is valuable, so we have stripped the claim process down. Our legal and financial infrastructure carries the entire administrative burden.

It starts with a review of your historic fleet. Send us proof of purchase or hire for your vehicles over 6 tonnes acquired between 1997 and 2014: purchase invoices, leasing or long-term hire agreements, or failing that old registration documents and amortisation tables.

Your data is encrypted end to end using AES-256 and handled in strict compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

What makes your file strong

We have specialised in trucks cartel claims since the European Union’s first decision. We fund every econometric assessment and legal cost, and are paid only through a percentage of the sums actually recovered.

Our action targets the holding companies sanctioned in Brussels. Your local commercial relationships with your current dealers remain confidential and intact.

Your business is eligible if its vehicles were acquired, financed or hired between 1997 and 2014, if their gross weight exceeds 6 tonnes, and if they carry one of the six cartel brands. Whether the truck is still running, sold or scrapped, the right to reparation is intact.

How your claim is calculated

The original overcharge is only part of your claim. The decisive lever is the compounding of statutory late payment interest, accrued over twelve to twenty-eight years.

C = (Vb × α) × (1 + r)t
  • C: total claimable compensation, principal and late payment interest combined
  • Vb: gross list price or net acquisition value of the vehicle
  • α: artificial overcharge applied by the cartel, between 10 and 20 %
  • r: average statutory annual interest rate applied by the court, 3 to 5 %
  • t: number of years elapsed since the original invoice was paid

Not sure you still hold every document? Our analysts routinely reconstruct complex fleet histories from partial records.

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Eligibility check

Send us your invoices, lease agreements, registration documents or asset registers covering 1997 to 2014.

02

Audit and firm offer

Our lawyers and econometricians quantify your claim within four weeks.

03

Guided decision

You choose between a cash purchase of your claim within 30 days and litigation on a success-fee basis.

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Payment released

The compensation is credited directly to your company bank account.

Frequently asked questions

No. Following the final ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union on Scania, limitation periods were reset. Depending on the jurisdiction, claims remain admissible until 2028-2029.

You are fully entitled to act. European law recognises that the lessor passed the artificial overcharge into your instalments. It is your business, as end lessee, that suffered the loss and will receive the compensation.

Absolutely not. The procedural risk sits entirely with our structure and our funders. If the decision goes against us, you owe no fee.

Explore the site

All the analyses in this section, plus the back to the homepage for the overview.

Manufacturers

The six sanctioned brands, their eligible models and limitation timetables.

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Acquisition methods

Purchase, hire purchase, long-term hire or vehicles sold: the rules for each contract.

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Legal expertise

Decision AT.39824, limitation periods, late payment interest and the Scania ruling.

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