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Hogan Lovells consultant takes senior role at Competition Commission
Hogan Lovells consultant Simon Polito has been appointed as one of three new deputy chairmen of the UK's Competition Commission. Polito, who is based in Hogan Lovells's City base, is a member of the firm's antitrust, competition and economic regula...
07 Nov 2011 | 13:46 | 
Dechert seals further DLA hire with hire of high-profile trade partner
Dechert has recruited DLA Piper partner Miriam Gonzalez - the wife of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg - as the new head of the firm's EU trade and EU government affairs practice. Gonzalez, currently DLA Piper's head of trade and government relatio...
25 Oct 2011 | 19:17 |
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Cleary recruits former Competition Commission chairman for City base
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 num...
18 Oct 2011 | 11:19 |
Jones Day continues Paris growth with hire of Latham competition partner
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 antit...
26 Sep 2011 | 11:30 |
Competition
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 whist...
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
No safe havens anymore - the global spread of competition enforcement
In recent times, much attention has focused on the significant increase in financial services regulation and anti-bribery law. At the same time, a more steady – some would say relentless – growth story has been the continuing trend towards far mor...
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Dealmaker: John Davies
Freshfields’ head of competition on setting the room on fire and making a spine-tingling mistake
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
A cautionary tale: how a competition law breach led to a jail term for one BA exec
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. During my eight-month sentence ...
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
For whom the whistle blows - the rise of corporate whistle-blowing
Charlotte Edmond assesses the growing trend for competition watchdogs to pursue cases via corporate whistle-blowing
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Why it pays to come clean - the companies holding their hands up to competition breaches
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 ...
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Missing the mark? - The Government's overhaul of the UK's competition regime
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....
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
On the bonfire - moves to burn up the UK's competition regime divide lawyers
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). An...
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
CC signs up former Linklaters Brussels antitrust chief
Clifford Chance (CC) has made a high-profile hire in Brussels with the addition of former Linklaters competition partner Johan Ysewyn. Ysewyn, who joined CC yesterday (12 September), was head of Linklaters' Brussels antitrust group and co-head of ...
13 Sep 2011 | 10:23 |
Linklaters Germany partner opts against move to Mayer Brown
Linklaters competition partner Carsten Grave has decided to remain with the magic circle law firm nearly two months after it was announced that he would join Mayer Brown's practice in Cologne. The news comes after the US law firm last month announc...
02 Sep 2011 | 11:24 |
Bird & Bird relaunches trade and customs practice with Steptoe hire
Bird & Bird is relaunching its dedicated trade and customs practice with the hire of a partner from Steptoe & Johnson in London. The firm brought in Iain MacVay earlier this week (4 July), with the hire making MacVay the sole partner dedicated to t...
07 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
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