GCR February 2010
The Front Line: Cartel Busting in San Francisco
Journal Feature
The Czech Republic's competition bar
Tough economic times mean that many Czech firms have battened down the hatches.
An interview with Petr Rafaj
Petr Rafaj, the new head of the Czech Republic’s Office for the Protection of Competition, began his job in July last year as a newcomer to competition law. Rosalind Donald spoke with him to discuss the challenges he faces and his vision for the authority.
Supermarket power
Supermarkets in the Czech Republic are furious about new government measures designed to protect suppliers from aggressive pricing and unfair contracts. Rosalind Donald finds out why the country’s competition community is behind them.
Pursuing European regulatory cooperation and consistency
Last year saw a number of regulatory institutional developments that appear to have reopened the debate, at least in some quarters, over the most effective and appropriate model for the regulated economic sectors, writes Miranda Cole of Covington & Burling in Brussels
2009 year-end criminal antitrust review
Partner David Burns and associates Joshua Hess, Geoffrey Weien and Russell Gold of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP review last year’s antitrust enforcement record
Certification of antitrust class actions in Canada: is the bar lowering?
Two Canadian courts have recently certified class actions alleging global price-fixing conspiracies, write Linda Plumpton, Omar Wakil and Sandeep Joshi of Torys LLP. The decisions are significant because they depart in key respects from the leading decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in this area. Read together, they suggest that the bar for certification of antitrust class actions in Canada may be lowering
Country Survey: USA
California's antitrust bar
When the antitrust group at Heller Ehrman disbanded in late 2008, it sent shockwaves through California’s antitrust landscape, reports Ron Knox. While the top of the state’s antitrust bar has remained relatively stable amid the chaos, several firms have positioned themselves to become the cream of the state’s antitrust crop over the next decade
An interview with Niall Lynch
Assistant chief, US Department of Justice, antitrust division, San Francisco field office
An Interview with Phillip Warren
Chief, United States Department of Justice, antitrust division, San Francisco field office
The front line
The prosecutors in the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division field office in San Francisco have quietly – and sometimes not so quietly – cracked down on some of the largest international cartels in the world. But it wasn’t always that way. Ron Knox looks at the office’s work over the past two decades
Book Reviews
Competition Law and Practice - A review of major jurisdictions
Editor: Marjorie Holmes, partner, Reed Smith
Price: £125
Publisher: CMP Publishing
Review by Fergus Randolph QC, Brick Court Chambers, London and Brussels




