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By Legal Week | September 23, 2009
Norton Rose is relaunching its Paris competition practice with the hire of a four-lawyer team from Salans, including the firm's European competition law practice group head. The UK top 10 firm has recruited Melanie Thill-Tayara as managing partner of its Paris competition, regulatory and EU capability practice.
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By Legal Week | August 27, 2009
Shearman & Sterling is set to lose its only two Brussels-based partners to US rival Arnold & Porter. Shearman's local office head Annette Schild is joining Arnold & Porter in the Belgian capital, along with fellow partner Silvio Cappellari and counsel Stephanie Birmanns. All three lawyers focus on competition and antitrust and have advised high-profile clients including Arriva, BASF, Siemens and Novartis.
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By Legal Week | August 26, 2009
Jones Day has made its second lateral hire in the City this year with the recruitment of Mayer Brown competition and antitrust head Frances Murphy. Murphy will join Jones Day on 1 September as London head of antitrust. Her practice focuses on the pharma, biotech, telecoms, retail and construction sectors.
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By Legal Week | August 5, 2009
Allen & Overy's (A&O's) US antitrust chief has left the firm's New York arm to join local rival Howrey. Michael Jahnke joined the US firm this week (3 August) as a partner in its competition practice after seven years at the magic circle firm's US outpost.
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By Legal Week | July 2, 2009
General Electric (GE) has finalised its European non-M&A legal panel, with a clutch of UK firms winning roles, including Clifford Chance and Ashurst. DLA Piper, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Baker & McKenzie are also among the firms appointed to GE's 80-firm roster.
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By Legal Week | July 2, 2009
Australia's Minter Ellison has appointed a new chairman, with competition specialist Russell Miller to take on the role. The Sydney-based partner will replace Gillian Brown, who has held the post since 2006. Brown will return to full-time fee earning as head of finance in the firm's Queensland office.
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By Legal Week | June 18, 2009
Field Fisher Waterhouse has become the latest firm to announce its financial results, with turnover growing by 8% but the firm predicting a slump in profits per equity partner (PEP). The UK top 40 firm saw revenues rise to £95m during the 2008-09 financial year, up from £88m the previous year. The firm has yet to finalise its PEP figure, but confirmed that it does not expect profits to reach last year's high of £750,000.
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By Legal Week | June 12, 2009
BT Global Services general counsel and commercial director Tim Cowen is stepping down after 18 years at the company. Cowen, a former regulatory lawyer at Lovells, joined BT Ignite as head of legal in 1991. Ten years later he became general counsel of successor organisation BT Global Services and subsequently took on the role of commercial director.
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By Legal Week | June 10, 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer competition partner Nicholas French is relocating from London to Beijing to co-head the China antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice.
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By Mark Goddard | June 4, 2009
Fulbright & Jaworski has secured its first lateral partner hire in London for more than a year, with the US firm bringing in McGrigors competition head Rod Lambert. Lambert joins the disputes practice in Fulbright's City arm.
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By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz | May 9, 2022
Based on the events that featured representatives from the enforcement agencies, it was clear that the DOJ and FTC have been attempting to meet the Biden administration's progressive antitrust agenda.
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By Ross Todd | May 5, 2022
Paul Coggins of Locke Lord and Fort Worth criminal defense attorney Brian Poe talk about defending a bellwether federal wage-fixing case targeting two former officials at a Texas physical therapy company.
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By Alaina Lancaster | Zack Needles | April 30, 2022
The Department of Justice has signaled that criminal monopolization cases could be on the horizon. In this week's episode, Axinn's Tiffany Rider illustrated what such a case could entail.
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By Max Mitchell | April 28, 2022
Specifically, the company argued that their ability to operate in PHL was unlawfully tied to the exclusivity agreement, and that it was an illegal conspiracy and restraint on trade, all of which allegedly violate the Sherman Act.
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By Sean Royall | April 27, 2022
Given that they have long been combined in a single dual-mission agency, one might expect these two competencies—antitrust and consumer protection—to be closely interrelated. But traditionally they have not been, and lawyers specializing in the two areas have largely occupied separate and distinct provinces.
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By ALM Staff | April 26, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Katharine Gemmell | April 25, 2022
Lawyers for Meta argued at the start of a London trial that despite the Competition and Markets Authority reviewing over 280,000 documents from the merging parties, not one showed them to compete in the ad market globally or in the U.K.
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By Carl W. Hittinger and Julian D. Perlman | April 22, 2022
Almost a year old, Alston's repercussions continue to be felt, far outside of the confines of sports. Its holding has impact even in the world of criminal justice, and it will continue to be front and center with the renewed antitrust focus on labor markets.
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By Ross Todd | April 22, 2022
Lawyers at Morgan Lewis and Wilmer represent the Denver-based dialysis company and a team from Winston & Strawn, Fish & Richardson and McDermott represent former CEO Kent Thiry. A federal jury this week acquitted the defendants on all counts of conspiring with three companies run by DaVita alumni to avoid competing for employees.
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By Andrew Goudsward | April 20, 2022
The Justice Department suffered two trial losses in the last week in cases centered around alleged antitrust labor abuses.
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