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

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

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

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

Proposed reforms to New Zealand's competition law have the country's antitrust specialists busy preparing for some big changes. Rosalind Donald investigates

Igor Artemiev has led Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service for six years. Rachel Bull met him at its 20th anniversary conference in Suzdal to discuss how far the FAS has come since its inception in 1990

Against the odds, competition law is now widely recognised in Russia – not simply as an academic concept but as a practical reality. Rachel Bull discovers how the country’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has put its enforcement powers into practice

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service is developing at speed, becoming more active and working tirelessly for further amendments to its antimonopoly legislation. Can the Russian bar keep up with the changes? Rachel Bull went to Moscow to find out

Title: Senior legal counsel
Age: 44
Company: International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Previous employment: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, King & Spalding LLP

Golden Gate Pharmacy Servs Inc v Pfizer Inc (ND Cal. 16 April 2010)

Ronan Harty and Edward N Moss

Davis Polk & Wardwell

New York

FTC found that companies which controlled 90 per cent of the industrial paper market set the prices from November 2009 to March 2010

Stephen C Wu and Yvonne Y Hsieh

Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law

Taipei

A cooperative venture controlled by a group of independent private hospitals applied for an exemption in February 2009

Sima Ostrovsky

Webber Wentzel

Johannesburg

The Serbian Competition Authority issued a warning to the public gas company Srbijagas concerning the granting of access to its gas network

Maja Stankovic

Wolf Theiss

Belgrade

The Competition Council sanctions one of Romania’s leading banks for providing incorrect information in cartel proceedings

Ancuta Leach and Claudia Arnautu

Wolf Theiss

Bucharest

Israeli Antitrust Authority suspects three of the major bread suppliers of cartel arrangements, price fixing, bid rigging and market divisions

D Ziv Abramovich

Lapidot Melchior Abramovich & Co

Jerusalem

Iittala found guilty of resale price maintenance

Niko Hukkinen and Maria Troberg

Roschier Attorneys Ltd

Helsinki

Court of Appeal annulled Competition Council’s decision of 2008

Vincent Mussche

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Brussels