Stefanie Stegbauer is an counsel with Schoenherr based in their Vienna office. Her practice focuses on competition, EU & foreign trade, compliance, internal investigations and crisis response. She holds a degree from the University of Vienna.
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Brief summary of facts In 2016, XY filed its action against RBS seeking damages incurred due to higher interest payments because of an unlawful manipulation of the LIBOR. The interest rate of the claimant’s credit was fixed to the LIBOR. Due to these manipulations, the claimant supposedly (...)
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Brief summary of facts In 2015, XY filed an action against RBS seeking damages incurred due to higher interest payments because of an unlawful manipulation of the LIBOR in CHF during May 2008 and July 2009. Due to these manipulations, the claimant supposedly suffered losses because of higher (...)
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Brief summary of facts In 2016, XY filed its action against RBS seeking damages incurred due to higher interest payments because of an unlawful manipulation of the LIBOR in CHF in May 2008 and July 2009. Due to these manipulations, the claimant supposedly suffered losses because of higher (...)
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Brief summary of facts A customer allocation system was agreed in Austria on the markets for new elevator-systems and maintenance during the years 2002 - 2005 (fined period). Due to these arrangements, allegedly damages occurred whenever an elevator-system was sold or maintenance work was (...)
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Brief summary of facts This case related to umbrella pricing claims that allegedly arose as a consequence of the elevator cartel; the claimant argued that he had incurred damages due to the fact that all market participants in the elevator industry that had not been part of the cartel had (...)
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Brief summary of facts This case is a damages case following the Austrian elevator & escalator cartel decision. In this case passing-on defence issues were raised. Brief summary of judgment The claimant argued that violations of cartel law resulted in higher prices paid for elevators (...)
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Brief summary of facts In this case, the claimants brought an action for a declaratory judgment. The appeal court was of the view that there was no jurisprudence of the Austrian Supreme Court as to whether or not damages that cannot be quantified yet can be the subject matter of an action (...)
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Brief summary of facts This judgment deals with the question of the limitation of an action for damages. The specific provision on limitation in the Cartel Act (Section 37a (4) KartG) was not applicable at the time of the proceedings. Hence, ordinary civil law and its rules on limitation had (...)
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Brief summary of facts In this case, a claimant filed a motion to claim damages because the limited liability company - which he was the only shareholder of the closed business. He argued that since his company (which was a competitor of the cartel participants) suffered from competitive (...)
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Brief summary of facts ÖBB was allegedly affected by the elevator cartel because of damages incurred due to the higher prices for elevator systems in its railway stations. However, ÖBB did not purchase them directly; rather, Stadt Wien purchased them and sold them to ÖBB. Therefore, it was (...)
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Brief summary of facts This case was all about jurisdiction because the claimant’s objective was to sue all defendants in front of the same court. The reasoning behind this objective was that according to the claimant all cartel members are under joint and several liability and can therefore (...)
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Brief summary of facts In a price-fixing cartel, the operator of a credit card system and the banks (being shareholders of the operator) issuing the credit cards agreed (i) on high and anti-competitive interchange fees and (ii) that the banks must charge the same interchange fees to the (...)
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Brief summary of facts A price-fixing cartel was agreed in Austria for the markets of new elevator-systems and maintenance during the years of 1992 and 2005. Due to these price-fixing agreements, damages occurred whenever an elevator-system was sold or maintenance work was carried out. The (...)
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Brief summary of facts A price-fixing cartel was agreed in Austria for the markets of new elevator-systems and maintenance during the years of 1992 and 2005. Due to these price-fixing agreements, damages occurred whenever an elevator-system was sold or maintenance work was carried out. The (...)
