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By Suzi Ring | July 19, 2010
Baker & McKenzie is set to lose a team of antitrust partners in Frankfurt, including the firm's German and European competition head, as the group splits off to launch a new competition boutique. Practice chief Joerg-Martin Schultze is quitting Bakers along with fellow partners Dominique Wagener, Stephanie Pautke and Johanna Kuebler. The group will open a new boutique in Frankfurt this September under the name Commeo. The three associates who make up the remainder of Bakers' Frankfurt antitrust practice are expected to join the partners at Commeo, although a final decision has not yet been taken.
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By Suzi Ring | June 22, 2010
Allen & Overy (A&O) has bulked up its Sydney office with the hire of Dave Poddar from domestic firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques. Poddar marks the eighteenth partner hire for the firm since it opened its Australian arm in February this year.
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By Sofia Lind | June 14, 2010
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is set to boost its Brussels office with the hire of Clifford Chance (CC) global antitrust head Simon Baxter. Baxter, who became a partner with CC in 1998, resigned earlier this month (3 June) and will join the US firm on Wednesday (16 June).
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By Suzi Ring | June 10, 2010
Hunton & Williams has recruited former Hogan Lovells counsel Wim Nauwelaerts in a boost for the US firm's Brussels office. Nauwelaerts, who specialises in data privacy issues for healthcare and life sciences clients, will join Hunton's global privacy and information management practice in Brussels as a counsel on 1 August.
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By Jeremy Hodges | May 26, 2010
Hogan Lovells is to make its first City partner hire since its merger at the beginning of the month. High profile competition specialist Suyong Kim will move from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr to the international firm's City base.
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By Suzi Ring | May 18, 2010
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has launched a European antitrust practice with the hire of SJ Berwin's head of EU and competition in Germany. Alexander Rinne is set to leave SJ Berwin in the coming weeks to set up and head the antitrust practice in Milbank's Munich office. He will be followed by associates Andreas Boos and Tatjana Muehlbach.
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By Jeremy Hodges | April 30, 2010
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has turned to Olswang for its latest partner hire, bringing in competition specialist Alasdair Balfour. Balfour, who has been a partner at Olswang since 2007, will join the US firm in London on 1 May as the office's first antitrust and competition partner since Craig Arnott returned to Australia last June, working with two associates.
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By Claire Ruckin | April 14, 2010
For years competition policy in the UK seemed to be a case of plenty of talk but little action. But the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) move last month in fining Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) a hefty £28.6m for breaching competition law is the latest in a series of recent reminders that the years of hot air are finally translating into a more robust enforcement policy.
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By Sofia Lind | April 1, 2010
The Postal Services Commission (Postcomm) has appointed a Simmons & Simmons partner to take on the role of legal director at the regulatory body. The unusual appointment sees Simmons City competition partner Jenny Block act as Postcomm legal director while also remaining a partner at Simmons, working part-time on her usual client work.
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By Legal Week | March 30, 2010
Until relatively recently, the implications of a UK competition investigation for individual company directors were limited to inconvenience, potential embarrassment and higher legal bills. At worst, an individual implicated in an infringement could lose his or her job. This is no longer the case. With the trial of the 'BA four' only weeks away, it is a good time to consider the risks that now exist for directors of companies implicated in anti-competitive behaviour. The essential facts are that, on 1 August 2007, the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced that British Airways (BA) had admitted collusion with Virgin Atlantic Airways over long-haul passenger fuel surcharges, contrary to the Competition Act 1998, and had agreed to pay the OFT a penalty of £121.5m.
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By Andrew Goudsward | August 1, 2022
The three-week-long trial is focused on competition in the market for books viewed as potential bestsellers.
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By Carl W. Hittinger and Tyson Y. Herrold | July 29, 2022
According to a case filed in the Southern District of New York, a new agreement capping the number of minor league affiliates at 120 is alleged to constitute a group boycott in violation of the Sherman Act Section 1.
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By Andrew Goudsward | July 28, 2022
DOJ's challenge of the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, which heads to trial on Monday, is based on an unusual theory that best-selling authors will be harmed.
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By Tasha Norman | July 27, 2022
Hard work is more likely to bring rewards if you have a clear direction, and you have to act intentionally to follow that direction.
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By Andrew Goudsward | July 27, 2022
The Justice Department is challenging the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster on the theory that top authors will be harmed.
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By The Associated Press | July 25, 2022
In its lawsuit, the Justice Department alleges the companies have been engaged in a multiyear conspiracy to exchange information about the wages and benefits of workers at poultry processing plants to drive down employee competition in the marketplace.
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By Andrew Goudsward | July 20, 2022
The Justice Department is searching for a new chief of its money laundering and asset recovery section amid a heightened focus on illicit activity involving Russia.
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By Bruce Love | July 19, 2022
Carsten Reichel, who for more than a decade prosecuted criminal antitrust cartels, has joined Norton Rose from the DOJ.
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By Tasha Norman | July 12, 2022
"The most satisfied and successful lawyers I know are the ones that proactively seek out matters that they will enjoy."
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 12, 2022
The settlement is part of multidistrict litigation that includes a separate class action brought on behalf of consumers in 17 states, including Georgia, 39 AGs and Epic Games, but they are not part of the settlement agreement.
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