Antitrust

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

1 minute read

No safe havens anymore - the global spread of competition enforcement

By Legal Week | September 21, 2011

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 more sophisticated competition law enforcement around the world. While agencies in countries with more developed competition regimes are turning to new economic techniques and ever more onerous information demands are becoming the norm, agencies with newer regimes are fast becoming aggressive enforcers. The blank spaces on the map of global competition law enforcement are rapidly being coloured in as countries such as China and India apply their laws in complex cases.

1 minute read

CC signs up former Linklaters Brussels antitrust chief

By Sofia Lind | September 13, 2011

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 the firm's global cartel group. Before his departure in March this year, he had spent 16 years at the magic circle firm, including 11 years as a partner.

1 minute read

Linklaters Germany partner opts against move to Mayer Brown

By Friederike Heine | September 2, 2011

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 announced the closure of its Berlin and Cologne offices, with Mayer Brown set to launch an office in Duesseldorf at the start of 2012.

1 minute read

Bird & Bird relaunches trade and customs practice with Steptoe hire

By Sofia Lind | July 6, 2011

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 the practice, following the departure of Amsterdam-based trade and customs partner Jasper Helder last year.

1 minute read

Linklaters launches antitrust practice in Amsterdam with Freshfields hire

By Legal Week | June 20, 2011

Linklaters has launched an Amsterdam antitrust practice with the hire of Paul Kreijger from magic circle rival Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, reports The Am Law Daily. Kreijger, who specialises in European antitrust and regulatory matters and also has niche energy sector expertise, joins the firm as counsel. In addition to working with the firm's Dutch clients, he will also work closely with the firm's four-partner antitrust team in Brussels.

1 minute read

Slaughters ally De Brauw reopens in Brussels

By Simon Petersen | June 17, 2011

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has reopened in Brussels almost 10 years after the Dutch independent closed its former base in the Belgian capital. The office, which opened yesterday (15 June), will focus on international competition and European law issues and will be headed by competition and regulation partner Douwe Groenevelt.

1 minute read

Linklaters sees antitrust team shift as global chief steps down

By Friederike Heine | June 15, 2011

Linklaters' global antitrust head Gerwin Van Gerven is stepping down after eight years in the role, with London competition partner Michael Cutting set to take over at the helm of the practice. Cutting, who headed the firm's London competition practice between 2004 and 2007, will split his time between Linklaters' London and Brussels offices as part of the new post.

1 minute read

BLP recruits former Office of Rail Regulation chairman for competition group

By Suzi Ring | June 1, 2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired the former chairman of the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) Chris Bolt as a consultant for its competition, EU and trade group. Bolt, who joined the firm last month, has spent the last twenty years managing and shaping regulatory issues in the transport and utility sectors, most recently as the public-private partnership arbiter for the London Underground.

1 minute read

Linklaters partner exits firm to launch new Brussels base for Cadwalader

By Friederike Heine | April 28, 2011

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is launching an office in Brussels with the hire of Linklaters competition partner Alec Burnside. Burnside, who has been recruited with a remit to open and manage the new office, specialises in EU competition law and regularly advises on high-profile cases involving global industries, governments and bluechip corporations.

1 minute read

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.

5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Elite Colleges—Where to Draw the Competitive Line

By Michael Kenny | September 12, 2022

In the case in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, nine plaintiffs have filed a putative antitrust class action lawsuit against 17 elite private universities—Brown, Cal Tech, University of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Penn, Rice, Vanderbilt and Yale.

4 minute read

New York Law Journal

State of the States: Antitrust Enforcement Gets More Aggressive

By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz | September 12, 2022

In this edition of their Antitrust Trade and Practice column, Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz review some of the biggest recent case developments from state attorneys general, as well as legislative updates on laws that may introduce new standards in evaluating antitrust cases.

11 minute read

The American Lawyer

Freshfields Hires Wilson Sonsini Partner as September Stays Hot for Antitrust Lateral Moves

By Bruce Love | September 12, 2022

At least four antitrust lawyers in the Beltway have found new homes in just the past two weeks, following a strong year of movement in the practice area.

6 minute read

The American Lawyer

With Antitrust at 'Historic' Moment, Shook Hardy Adds DOJ Litigator

By Andrew Maloney | September 12, 2022

Ryan Sandrock, who will co-lead Shook's antitrust group, worked on the government's landmark claims against Google search, as well as claims against a $13 billion merger between healthcare companies.

3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Google Pays 'Enormous' Sums to Maintain Search-Engine Dominance, DOJ Says

By Leah Nylen | September 9, 2022

The Google antitrust suit, filed in the waning days of the Trump administration, was the federal government's first major effort to rein in the power of the tech giants, which continues under President Joe Biden.

4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Cravath and Latham Defeat the FTC's Antitrust Challenge to Tie-Up Between Illumina and GRAIL

By Ross Todd | September 9, 2022

Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell rejected the FTC's position that the deal would hurt competition in the burgeoning market for multi-cancer early detection tests, handing a win to Illumina's team at Cravath and GRAIL's at Latham.

12 minute read

Law.com

Compliance Hot Spots: New Hires Out of DOJ Antitrust Division + Kramer Levin Launches Congressional Investigations Group + Kirkland & Ellis in FTC Consumer Protection Settlement

By Andrew Goudsward | September 7, 2022

Cooley and Axinn landed senior DOJ antitrust officials who recently made the move to private practice.

8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Antitrust Action Takes Aim at RWJ Barnabas Health

By ALM Staff | September 7, 2022

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

1 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Antitrust Enforcer Joins Cooley in DC

By Dan Packel | September 7, 2022

Kathy O'Neill was the senior director of investigations and litigation in the DOJ's Antitrust Division, the top-ranking career civil antitrust attorney in the unit.

2 minute read