Tuesday, 21 May
The UK’s Competition Commission has says the country’s cement market is inherently uncompetitive and has proposed significant remedies to boost competition in the sector.
OFT announces new director promotions
Tuesday, 21 May
The UK’s Office of Fair Trading today announced four new director appointments.
Actavis and Warner Chilcott announce pharma tie-up
Tuesday, 21 May
Actavis has announced plans to acquire specialty pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott for US$8.5 billion.
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Features
EU cartel settlements: are they working?
Journal Feature • Tuesday, 7 May
Flavio Laina, head of the cartel settlement unit at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition, Marc Hansen, partner at Latham & Watkins and Gerwin Van Gerven, partner at Linklaters, take an in-depth look at the EU cartel settlements system. By David Vascott
Playing catch-up
Country Survey • Tuesday, 7 May
Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has been a capable agency for some time, but has struggled to promote the importance of competition law among both the public and the business community. With significant changes to the competition agenda on the way, that looks set to change, writes Faaez Samadi
Taiwan’s competition bar
Country Survey • Tuesday, 7 May
Despite the low profile of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission on the international stage, there’s enough competition work around to keep a handful of firms busy. Faaez Samadi meets the teams handling the leading cases
An interview with Shiow-Ming Wu
Country Survey • Tuesday, 7 May
After securing a second term as chair of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission, Shiow-Ming Wu is driving through institutional and legislative changes that will put the enforcer on the antitrust map. Faaez Samadi sat down with him to discuss his plans
To amparo or not to amparo?
Journal Feature • Tuesday, 7 May
José Alberro, director at Berkeley Research Group in California, examines stock market punishment and enforcement of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission decisions
This Week's Most Read Stories
Surveys: Washington, Taiwan • EU Cartel Settlements Round Table, Mexican Amparos • Interviews with Shiow-Ming Wu, Chris Fonteijn, Joe Wayland
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Details on forthcoming features and projects.
Featured Articles
An interview with Joseph Wayland
Tuesday, 7 May
Joseph Wayland is credited by many as reversing the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division’s fortunes in civil litigation. Hired to head the civil enforcement division in 2010 and appointed as acting assistant attorney general in 2012, Wayland led the division’s first successful litigated merger challenge in nearly a decade in H&R Block, and its subsequent challenge of AT&T/T-Mobile, which ended with the parties abandoning the deal. Katy Oglethorpe talks to him about his courtroom successes, the future of merger enforcement at the department, and life since returning to his former firm, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett last year
Washington, DC's antitrust bar
Tuesday, 7 May
The US capital's antitrust bar is on the verge of a generational shift – yet it remains as deep and talented as ever. Ron Knox and Katy Oglethorpe examine the top teams working in the hub of antitrust law.
An interview with Chris Fonteijn
Tuesday, 7 May
The Netherlands’ Authority for Consumers & Markets, a new authority that has combined the Competition Authority, telecoms regulator and consumer protection agency, officially opened its doors today. GCR spoke to its head, Chris Fonteijn, in London at the Office of Fair Trading.
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