The American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA) has called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to intervene in the fight for recognition of in-house privilege in Europe.

In a hard-hitting letter to the chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission the chair of Acca, William B Lytton, claimed that the European Commission’s (EC) refusal to recognise in-house privilege interfered with the ability of multi-national corporates to comply with US antitrust law.