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By Friederike Heine | October 14, 2010
Competition lawyers are gearing up for the biggest shake-up in the UK's antitrust regime for years following confirmation today (14 October) that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Competition Commission (CC) are set to merge. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) announced the move as part of the new coalition Government's move to streamline the work of public bodies - a policy dubbed 'the bonfire of the quangos'.
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By Friederike Heine | October 8, 2010
Brick Court Chambers silk Conor Quigley QC has made the unusual move of leaving the set for a move to commercial chambers Serle Court. EU law specialist Quigley, who took silk in 2003, joined Serle Court on 1 October.
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By Suzi Ring | October 7, 2010
Clifford Chance (CC) has elected a new managing partner for its Brussels office, as current incumbent Yves Herinckx prepares to step down after 14 years in the role. Herinckx will be replaced by Brussels head of EU and competition Tony Reeves in November, with Reeves set to remain as head of the practice group alongside his new role. Herinckx will continue as head of finance in Belgium, a post he has held simultaneously with his role as Brussels chief.
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By Legal Week | October 6, 2010
The European Court of Justice's (ECJ's) judgment in Akzo Nobel Chemicals & Others v European Commission last month confirmed that for the purposes of European Union law, legal professional privilege will not apply to communications between in-house counsel and their clients. For a judgment that has essentially left the law unchanged, it has generated considerable adverse comment. It gets it wrong in a number of fundamental ways and, arguably, leaves the European Commission (EC) - whose work it primarily affects - on a collision course with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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By Friederike Heine | September 22, 2010
The Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have published joint merger assessment guidelines for the first time, in a move which has intensified speculation that the two bodies could merge to form a single oversight body. The joint guidelines, which were published last week (16 September), have been created to provide greater clarity to companies and their advisers on how both bodies will assess the competitive impact of a merger. The guidelines revise and expand guidance previously issued separately by the two watchdogs, with partners at City firms praising the move as a "productive step forward".
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By Friederike Heine | September 14, 2010
The battle to extend privilege for in-house lawyers in Europe has suffered a major blow after a ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) today (14 September) stated that company legal teams are not protected in competition cases. The ECJ rejected arguments made by Dutch chemicals group Akzo Nobel that a lower court was wrong to find that communications involving in-house legal counsel are not covered by lawyer-client confidentiality.
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By Sofia Lind | September 7, 2010
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed new co-heads for its global competition, antitrust and trade practice. The firm has chosen Brussels and City-based partner John Davies and Duesseldorf managing partner Martin Klusman as the new co-leaders of the 250-lawyer group, with the duo succeeding incumbents David Aitman and Helmut Bergmann as of next week (15 September).
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By Suzi Ring | September 7, 2010
Norton Rose is set to launch an antitrust, regulatory and competition practice in Italy with the hire of Linklaters' competition and antitrust head in the country. Andrea Zulli, who was a managing associate in Linklaters' Milan base, will join Norton Rose's local office as a partner in the coming months. He relocated to the region from London in May 2009 to launch a competition and antitrust practice for Linklaters.
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By Suzi Ring | September 1, 2010
Two partners have left Howrey's Brussels office to join Olswang and McDermott Will & Emery in the Belgian capital. Patricia Cappuyns joins Olswang's intellectual property (IP) group today (1 September) after five years at Howrey, where she made partner in January 2009. Her client portfolio includes MEGA Brands, DSM, Sara Lee and Elvis Presley Enterprises.
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By Suzi Ring | July 21, 2010
CMS Moscow has appointed Maxim Boulba as its new head of competition following the departure of former head Yevgeny Voevodin to local firm Capital Legal Services (CLS). Russia TMT chief Boulba took over as head of the competition practice earlier this month after a decade at the CMS branch. He joined CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre in 2000 and made partner in 2008.
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By Bruce Love | August 10, 2022
Boies Schiller's Hamish Hume takes The American Lawyer under the hood of his Blue Cross Blue Shield MDL—the biggest settlement ever for a private antitrust case with no government involvement.
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By Bruce Love | August 10, 2022
Boies Schiller's Hamish Hume takes The American Lawyer under the hood of his Blue Cross Blue Shield MDL—the biggest settlement ever for a private antitrust case with no government involvement.
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By The Associated Press | August 10, 2022
"There simply is no irreparable harm in this case," PGA Tour attorney Elliot Peters said.
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By ALM Staff | August 9, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Everett Catts | August 9, 2022
"I think discovery will be broad with many documents produced from the parties and third parties and numerous depositions. I do not see the PGA Tour compromising. It needs its rules in order to keep its players," antitrust lawyer Craig Seebald said.
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By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz | August 8, 2022
A recent acquittal leads to an interesting crossroads for the Biden Administration, which has been clear on its strong antitrust enforcement agenda, and now may have to adjust enforcement strategy following the loss.
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By Scott Graham | August 5, 2022
Knobbe Martens partner Joe Reisman has his eyes on a crush of appeals that is heading toward the DC-based appellate court.
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By Andrew Goudsward | August 3, 2022
Corporate resolutions in FCPA cases are behind the pace of previous years, but given messaging from the Justice Department, defense attorneys remain focused on compliance upgrades.
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By Bruce Love | August 3, 2022
Guillermo Christensen—Ice Miller's D.C. managing partner—has left for K&L Gates.
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By Andrew Goudsward | August 2, 2022
Peter Mucchetti, a partner at Clifford Chance, represented Stephen King as he took the stand in support of DOJ's challenge of the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.
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