James Clasper examines the informal antitrust probe launched into private-equity deals in the United States and asks whether the investigation will ever migrate to Europe

David Giardina, partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, discusses developments in the law of bundled pricing

Roger Fones, partner, and Jonathan Linde, associate, at Morrison & Foerster LLP in Washington, DC, explain why airline alliance benefits are achievable without antitrust immunity

Ilene Knable Gotts, partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York, and Leon Greenfield, partner at WilmerHale in Washington DC, explain what every lawyer needs to know about non-competition barriers to foreign acquisitions of US targets

José Sbattella is chairman of Argentina’s competition agency. David Vascot talked to him about the challenges he faces and his thoughts on the recent OECD peer review

After the diehard evangelism of Ireland’s former competition chief, lawyers expect great things from his successor, Bill Prasifka. JULIUS CAVENDISH reports on his first year in office

Ten months into his tenure as chairman of Ireland’s Competition Authority, Bill Prasifka should be ready to stamp his mark. He talks to JULIUS CAVENDISH

Irish competition lawyers are seeing their market boom as rapidly as any in Ireland. JULIUS CAVENDISH reviews the country’s leading competition practices

In late 2006, Argentina’s antitrust authority finally approved beer company Quilmes’s divestment proposals – bringing one of Argentina’s longest legal wrangles to an end. Will Brown spoke to the counsel on the deal to discover what caused the delays

A hefty penalty recently imposed by the Federal Court may make firms think twice before blocking competitor activity

The Austrian cartel court has imposed its highest ever fine, punishing Europay Austria Zahlungsverkehrssysteme GmbH €5 million in December 2006

The Canadian government has proposed amendments to the Competition Act which will establish administrative monetary penalties for abuses of dominance in deregulated portions of the telecoms sector

On 31 January 2007, Denmark’s Competition Authority approved capital group CVC’s takeover of Matas following commitments undertaken by the parties

The European Commission has finalised revised guidelines on immunity from fines and reduction of fines in cartel cases

The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court has quashed the prohibition by the German Federal Cartel Office of the acquisition by Du Pont of Pedex & Co

In January 2007, the Indian parliament’s standing committee on finance made certain recommendations with respect to the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2006

Falck Danmark AS, a group of companies that offer technical assistance to car owners and businesses, has been told to sell a competitor it bought last year

Enel Viesgo Generación SL has been fined for abusing a dominant position in the Spanish electricity market by artificially raising the price of electricity supply

The Office of Fair Trading was given an early Christmas present in December 2006 when the Competition Appeal Tribunal acknowledged its right to close a competition investigation on the ground that it was not an administrative priority

The District Court for the Southern District of New York has held that the provision of integrated bar examination courses by a dominant course provider constituted a potentially unlawful tying arrangement