Digital Platforms Litigation

Digital markets pose fundamental challenges for the private enforcement of antitrust laws. These markets often feature platform-based business models, multi-sided markets, direct and indirect network effects, economies of scale and intricate eco-systems. Such features render competition issues more complex and create scope for exclusionary and exploitative practices.  

While digital technologies can sometimes helpfully disrupt concentrated uncompetitive markets, they can also create new opportunities to collude, to exploit and to discriminate. 

As the impact of the digital sector extends beyond information goods and services into other areas of the economy, civil society groups, firms across the economy, and policymakers are increasingly being forced into action to defend the rights of consumers and firms to participate in fair, open and competitive markets.  

Fideres is one of the leading economic consultancies working to address misconduct in digital markets through research and litigation.  

Through our investigative work, we identify evidence of violations of competition law, regulatory rules and consumer protection laws across the jurisdictions in which we operate.  

We assist law firms and regulators throughout the life of the litigation, from filing to settlement.

For any Digital Markets related enquiries please contact Chris Pike at chris.pike@fideres.com

Fideres Experts

Affiliate Academic Experts

Services

Original Investigations

Self-preferencing

Exclusive and quasi-exclusive dealing

Loyalty discounts

Tying and Bundling

Margin squeeze

Refusal to deal

Forced free-riding & content scraping

Privacy policy tying

Platform envelopment

Drip-pricing and other behavioural manipulation

Excessive prices or data collection

Algorithmic discrimination and personalised pricing

Coordinated pricing & price guarantees

Online sales bans & minimum internet advertised prices

Hub and spoke cartels

Algorithmic collusion

Creative Problem Solution

Impact on prices of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) / Price Parity clauses

Market definition

Quantification of network effects

Rule of reason tests

Equally efficient competitor test, vertical arithmetic test

High Quality Expert Work

Expert reports

Expert witness testimony

Merits reports

Plan of allocation and settlement distribution

Damages analysis

Data analysis

Track Record

News and Research