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Exploring whether funding is driving major business competition cases and how funders reap cash from these deals
By Friederike Heine | October 18, 2011
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has strengthened its London competition team with the hire of Peter Freeman QC, the former chairman of the Competition Commission. Freeman's arrival, which is scheduled for next month (1 November), will take the number of senior lawyers in the US firm's London competition practice to four. He will join the office as a senior consultant, working alongside partners Maurits Dolmans, Romano Subiotto QC and Nicholas Levy.
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By Legal Week | October 5, 2011
In July, Nestle announced it had agreed to pay $1.7bn (£1.08bn) to acquire a controlling interest in Chinese candy company Hsu Fu Chi International. The proposed deal would be the largest-ever acquisition in China by a foreign multinational and would help the Vevey, a Switzerland-based food giant, cement its position in the world's most important growth market. If Nestle is able to pull the deal off, it may just have Susan Ning to thank, above all. Head of the antitrust group and a senior partner at King & Wood, Ning is aiming to guide Nestle around what is likely the biggest obstacle to its deal: China's three-year-old anti-monopoly law. The last time a large multinational attempted a similar acquisition – Coca-Cola's $2bn (£1.28bn) bid for China Huiyuan Juice Group in 2008 – the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) shot it down on antitrust review.
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By Simon Petersen | September 26, 2011
Jones Day has strengthened its French antitrust and competition law practice with a partner hire from Latham & Watkins. Eric Barbier de La Serre is set to join Jones Day's Paris office next month (19 October) as the second partner in its local antitrust and European law practice.
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By Legal Week | September 21, 2011
An in depth look at moves to burn up the UK's competition regime, Cleary Gottlieb, Sullivan & Cromwell and Freshfields assess key antitrust developments, one former BA executive delivers a cautionary tale and a spotlight on the rise of corporate whistle-blowing
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By Legal Week | September 21, 2011
It was while lying on my top bunk in a dormitory in a federal prison camp in Florida when I originally had the idea that my story could make executives sit up and listen and really bring compliance training to life.
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By Legal Week | September 21, 2011
The Government tells us that the UK has a "world-class" competition regime. It is hard to know exactly what this means, but the underlying sentiment is clear: the UK regime is one of the best in the world at protecting and encouraging competition. Now we are told that it needs to get better still.
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By Legal Week | September 21, 2011
Freshfields' head of competition on setting the room on fire and making a spine-tingling mistake
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By Legal Week | September 21, 2011
It looks like it's almost a done deal. Among antitrust advisers, the expectation is that it is only a matter of time before the Government makes good on its proposal to merge the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with the Competition Commission (CC).
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By Charlotte Edmond | September 21, 2011
Charlotte Edmond assesses the growing trend for competition watchdogs to pursue cases via corporate whistle-blowing
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By Legal Week | September 21, 2011
In April of this year, the European Commission (EC) fined Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Henkel a total of €315.2m (£275m) for fixing the prices of laundry detergents in Europe. Procter & Gamble was fined €211.2m (£184m) and Unilever received a fine of €104m (£91m), while Henkel escaped penalty because it acted as the whistle-blower on the cartel. The case is an example of how perfectly legitimate, and even desirable, co-operation between competitors can go horribly wrong. In the late 1990s, the trade association representing the manufacturers of detergents in Europe launched an environmental initiative to promote sustainable consumption of laundry detergents by recommending manufacturers to reduce dosage and weight of their detergents as well as package sizes.
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By Ellen Bardash | September 23, 2022
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika found the acquisition of Imperial Sugar Co. by ex-rival U.S. Sugar Corp. doesn't violate Chapter 7 of the Clayton Act. The decision was a win for litigation teams led by Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Latham & Watkins.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Ellen Bardash | September 23, 2022
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika found the acquisition of Imperial Sugar Co. by ex-rival U.S. Sugar Corp. doesn't violate Chapter 7 of the Clayton Act. The decision was a win for litigation teams led by Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Latham & Watkins.
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By Ross Todd | September 23, 2022
After a two-week trial, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. greenlighted UnitedHealth Group's $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare Inc., handing a big win to Craig Primis, Matt Reilly and Winn Allen of Kirkland & Ellis.
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By Bruce Love | September 21, 2022
Government lawyers keep coming back to Covington because the firm's culture matches their government experience in important ways, said Covington's James Garland.
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By Cheryl Miller | September 19, 2022
Magistrate Judge Douglas McCormick will allow the plaintiffs to amend another claim before deciding the fate of the proposed class action.
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By Avalon Zoppo | September 19, 2022
The solicitor general for New York argued a four-year state of limitations doesn't apply and the lawsuit should be revived.
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By Avalon Zoppo | September 19, 2022
The solicitor general for New York argued a four-year state of limitations doesn't apply and the lawsuit should be revived.
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By ALM Staff | September 16, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Cheryl Miller | September 14, 2022
California's lawsuit is similar to one filed last year by District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine. Racine is appealing a judge's ruling earlier this year dismissing the complaint.
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By Linda A. Thompson | September 14, 2022
Europe's second-highest court backed up Brussels officials on their claim that Google has abused its dominant position in the mobile internet space. Google was advised by a quartet of elite law firms.
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