Antitrust

Cleary recruits former Competition Commission chairman for City base

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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King of the hill – will Chinese law firms monopolise local competition work?

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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Jones Day continues Paris growth with hire of Latham competition partner

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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Competition

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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A cautionary tale: how a competition law breach led to a jail term for one BA exec

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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Missing the mark? - The Government's overhaul of the UK's competition regime

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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Dealmaker: John Davies

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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On the bonfire - moves to burn up the UK's competition regime divide lawyers

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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International Edition

For whom the whistle blows - the rise of corporate whistle-blowing

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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Why it pays to come clean - the companies holding their hands up to competition breaches

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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Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: The Kirkland Team Who Helped UnitedHealth Beat Back DOJ's Antitrust Challenge to a Health-Tech Deal

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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National Law Journal

Yet Another Government Lawyer Returns to Covington

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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The Recorder

Judge Tosses Claim in State Bar Data Breach Lawsuit

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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National Law Journal

DC Circuit Questions if State AGs Waited Too Long to Sue Meta for Alleged Antitrust Violations

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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The Recorder

Circuit Court Questions if State AGs Waited Too Long to Sue Meta for Alleged Antitrust Violations

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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The Recorder

Calabasas Car Dealership Sues GM Over Antitrust Claims

By ALM Staff | September 16, 2022

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.

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The Recorder

AG Rob Bonta Sues Amazon Over Alleged Price-Setting Scheme

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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Law.com

Google Loses Appeal in Landmark EU Antitrust Case

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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International Edition

Google Loses Appeal in €4.3B Antitrust Case

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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Legaltech News

FTC's Move to Link Data Privacy With Antitrust Has Attorneys Waiting for Clarity

By Isha Marathe | September 13, 2022

As FTC regulators begin to scrutinize the link between antitrust laws and data privacy, more attorneys find themselves in limbo as they wait for formal guidance—still, there are some steps they can take to get ahead of enforcement now.

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