“Suite dreams”: Market definition and complementarity in the digital age
Certain products exhibit such strong complementarities that they should not be evaluated separately. For example, consider a pair of shoes or the various...
CRA provides economic advice and testimony in large, complex, high stakes antitrust class action/collective action cases. Our experience includes analysis of class certification issues, liability, aggregate and individual class damages, injunctive relief, and settlement distribution issues. CRA uses its economic expertise, industry knowledge, and experience with large, complex data sets to help clients address these issues. In addition, our experts apply their backgrounds in economic theory, econometrics, game theory modeling, and damage assessment to analyze other economic issues, such as market definition, market power, and anticompetitive effects at a class-wide level.
Our economists have broad class action experience and particular expertise in antitrust and fraud/false advertising class action cases. Our class action work spans a wide range of industries and has involved some of the most prominent cases in recent years.
Engagements
- 01Economic testimony and analysis support Google’s successful opposition to US class certificationIn December 2025, the US Court denied class certification for the proposed US Advertiser Class and the proposed US AdSense Publisher subclass. Plaintiffs had...View engagement
- 02CAT approves class action settlement agreement in maritime cartelA CRA team, including Raphaël De Coninck, Elina Koustoumpardi, Oliver Wichert, Dominik Fischer, Francesca Garbin, Isabella Pandelli and Lorenzo Comito advised...View engagement
- 03Multi-billion Google ad tech claim certified by UK Competition Appeal TribunalThe claim is put forward by Ad Tech Collective Action LLP, led by Claudio Pollack, Charles Arthur, and Kate Wellington. As a result of the CAT’s judgement, the...View engagement