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By Sofia Lind | March 29, 2012
Greater rigour or streamlined efficiency? Confusion about the real purpose of the looming merger of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Competition Commission (CC) perhaps explains the ambivalent reaction to the proposals announced on 15 March. Because, as competition advisers have argued since the Government floated the idea of unifying the antitrust agencies last October, those aims can easily come into conflict.
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By Friederike Heine | March 21, 2012
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has taken the lead role for Deutsche Boerse on its lawsuit against the European Commission (EC) over the rejection of its merger with NYSE Euronext. The US firm's Frankfurt office has been instructed to advise the German stock exchange following its decision to sue the European Commission at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg.
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By Legal Week | March 21, 2012
As an in-house lawyer you probably advise your company on a broad range of legal issues. You have to be a legal jack of all trades and you're expected to be master of them all! The Office of Fair Trading has developed a suite of materials to provide in-house lawyers with everything they need to know about competition law.
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By Rose Orlik | March 15, 2012
Linklaters, Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are among a host of firms acting for accountancy giants embroiled in an ongoing Competition Commission investigation.
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By Suzi Ring | February 27, 2012
EU lobbying law firm Alber & Geiger is launching in London in a bid to target international companies with a presence in the capital. The Brussels-based firm will open its City office in Westminster's Berkeley Square in March, with partner Lord Charles Henry Plumb heading up the new base.
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By Suzi Ring | February 14, 2012
Slaughter and May has advised alongside Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz as Google's $12.5bn (£7.9bn) acquisition of Motorola Mobility yesterday (13 February) gained competition clearance in the US and Europe. Slaughters was brought in to advise Motorola on European competition matters after the acquisition was announced in August last year, with the firm understood to have fielded a team led by Brussels competition partner Claire Jeffs.
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By Sofia Lind | February 13, 2012
SJ Berwin EU and competition head Stephen Kon has become the first candidate to put himself forward for the firm's senior partner role following Jonathan Blake's announcement that he will not stand for a third term. Blake, whose tenure will come to an end on 30 April, informed SJ Berwin's partners earlier this month (3 February) that he would not seek re-election.
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By Legal Week | November 7, 2011
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 regulation practice. He was a partner at legacy Lovells for 26 years, and led the firm's EU and competition law practice from 2001 to 2004.
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By Legal Week | October 25, 2011
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 relations, is joining the US-based firm's London office.
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By Legal Week | October 25, 2011
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 relations, is joining the US-based firm's London office.
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By Tasha Norman | October 13, 2022
"'Be patient and kind to yourself.' It is easy in your early career to think that you are not making progress fast enough and then to be really hard on yourself. But you have to walk before you can run, and you have to run before you can sprint."
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By ALM Staff | October 11, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Carl W. Hittinger and Tyson Y. Herrold | October 7, 2022
The ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois is notable because it held that the "568 Exemption," on which many universities' financial aid systems are based, does not provide antitrust immunity unless all participating universities admit their students on a need-blind basis.
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By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz | October 7, 2022
It is clear that U.S. regulators are making efforts to expand antitrust enforcement globally and in collaboration with enforcers around the world.
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By David Koenig | The Associated Press | October 4, 2022
American and JetBlue say the government has no evidence that the deal is hurting consumers. To the contrary, they say it will help travelers by creating a stronger competitor to Delta and United in New York and Boston.
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By The Associated Press | September 29, 2022
JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes told a federal court in Boston the partnership JetBlue Airways and Southwest Airlines has with American Airlines will help his airline grow, accommodate customers whose flights get canceled, and attract more corporate travelers. Executives from Atlanta-based Delta Airlines and other airlines are expected to testify.
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By The Associated Press | September 27, 2022
The Justice Department and six states are suing American and JetBlue to break up their partnership in the Northeast, namely New York and Boston. Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines' executives have been asked to testify in the trial.
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By Dan Roe | September 27, 2022
"It is not always enough to be among the best civil trial lawyers—clients want lawyers who have handled the precise type of claim," said Wheeler Trigg co-managing partners Carolyn Fairless and Michael Williams.
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By Christine Schiffner | September 26, 2022
"We are in really perilous times and it is so important for lawyers to be speaking out about the rule of law, what the Constitution means, what it protects and why we need to ensure that it is safeguarded."
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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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