Capacitor Antitrust (Direct)



If your business purchased aluminum, tantalum or film capacitors between January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2013 directly from one or more defendant you may be entitled to a portion of the $165,000,000 thus far recovered in this class action settlement.



Settlement Amount: $165,000,000



Class Period:



January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2013



Deadline: July 29, 2022



Class Members:



(a) All entities in the U.S. that were billed or invoiced for Capacitors directly from one or more of the Defendants, their subsidiaries, agents, affiliates, or joint ventures from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2013


(b) All entities outside the U.S. and were billed or invoiced for capacitors by one or more Defendants during the Class Period, where such capacitors were imported into the United States by one or more Defendants (i.e., where the capacitors were “billed to” persons outside the United States but “shipped to” persons within the United States).



Defendants:



1) AVX

2) ELNA

3) Hitachi

4) Holy Stone

5) KEMET

6) Matsuo

7) NEC TOKIN

8) Nichicon



9) Nippon Chemi-Con

10) Nissei

11) Nitsuko

12) Okaya

13) Panasonic

14) ROHM

15) Rubycon

16) Sanyo



17) Shinyei

18) Shizuki

19) Soshin

20) Taitsu

21) Toshin Kogyo

22) United Chemi-Con​



Background:



The lawsuit claims that Defendants entered into agreements to artificially raise, fix, or stabilize the prices of aluminum, tantalum, and film capacitors (“Capacitors”) in violation of federal antitrust law.

Each of the Defendants, including the Settling Defendants, expressly denies all allegations with the exception:

(a) January 21, 2016, NEC TOKIN pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of certain electrolytic capacitors
(b) June 9, 2016, Hitachi Chemical Co. pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of certain electrolytic capacitors
(c) October 11, 2017, ELNA Co. and Holy Stone Holdings pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of certain electrolytic capacitors
(d) October 12, 2017, Rubycon Corp. pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of certain electrolytic capacitors
(e) October 25, 2017, Matsuo Electric Co. pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of certain electrolytic capacitors
(f) November 8, 2017, Nichicon Corp. pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of certain electrolytic capacitors
(g) May 30, 2018, Nippon Chemi-Con pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of certain electrolytic capacitors
(h) Panasonic reported itself to the United States Department of Justice and acknowledged that it and SANYO Electric which was previously a separate entity but was acquired by Panasonic, had violated the antitrust laws of the United States in relation to the prices of certain capacitors.


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