Thursday, 29 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
Fifteen years ago, some companies joked that their competition compliance programme consisted of a shredder. Now, creating training programmes, implementing networks of communication and creating internal avenues for whistleblowers is an integral part of business for in-house and private practice lawyers. Despite the importance of compliance in preventing antitrust violations, competition authorities have issued relatively little guidance on the subject. Rosalind Donald investigates
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
Title: Associate general counsel Age: 50 Company: Microsoft Previous employment: Partner, Coudert Brothers LLP. Art is also a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and the University of Liège
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
In March 2009, France’s Competition Council took over DGCCRF’s competition powers to become a single, unified authority. Rachel Bull met its president in Paris to talk about the journey so far
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
Growing awareness of competition law and an increasingly active competition authority has left France’s antitrust bar bursting at the seams. Rachel Bull went to Paris to find out more
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
Despite being a relatively young agency, France’s Competition Authority is among the most active enforcers of antitrust law in Europe. In a country where policies are refined and awareness of the law widespread, what issues could the authority possibly face? Rachel Bull finds out
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
An interview with Mark Tobey: Special counsel for state relations and agriculture, US Department of Justice, antitrust division
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
Texas’s competition bar:
In the Lone Star State, litigation is the rule, and some of the most contentious industries in the US – energy and health care among them – turn to the state’s courtroom warriors to hash out antitrust issues. Ron Knox explores which Texas antitrust practices are capable of fighting and winning cases for clients in the wild, wild west
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
The state of the States:
A report published late last year painted a bleak picture of the relationship between the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division and its counterparts at the state level. But was the relationship truly as bad as it might have appeared? And has a new approach to the relationship at the division resulted in real changes? Ron Knox investigates
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Featured In: August/September 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 8)
The European Commission has ushered in new rules for purchase and distribution agreements, a decade on from its last review of the vertical restraints regime. Emily Gray examines the key changes to the regulation and guidelines – and the repercussions of those changes for the business community
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Featured In: July 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 7)
Title: Senior legal counsel Age: 44 Company: International Air Transport Association (IATA) Previous employment: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, King & Spalding LLP
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Featured In: July 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 7)
Mark Berry has chaired New Zealand’s Commerce Commission since 2009. He tells Rosalind Donald about building relationships with the business community, the commission’s relationship with Australia and the challenges the authority faces in the coming years
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Featured In: July 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 7)
Mark Berry’s appointment to chair of New Zealand’s Commerce Commission met with mixed reactions. Was it a bid to curtail the commission’s powers or a pragmatic appointment that recognises the importance of competition to New Zealand’s economy? Rosalind Donald investigates
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Featured In: July 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 7)
Proposed reforms to New Zealand's competition law have the country's antitrust specialists busy preparing for some big changes. Rosalind Donald investigates
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Featured In: July 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 7)
After four years at the helm of the UK’s Competition Commission, Peter Freeman is preparing to step down as chairman. Rosalind Donald met him in London to discuss the challenges facing the authority, the rise of competition law and Freeman’s legacy at the commission
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Featured In: July 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 7)
Just weeks after the US passed its comprehensive health-care reform law, GCR sat down with some of the top health-care antitrust practitioners in the world to discuss how antitrust law would affect the future of health care in both the US and Europe. Ron Knox met with the panel at the offices of White & Case LLP in Washington, DC, to hear their views on how antitrust enforcement would help shape health-care reform
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