An interview with Philip Collins
Monday, 28 January 2013
Country Survey • Issue: February 2013
Philip Collins has steered the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) through a challenging few years since he became chairman of the organisation in 2005. As the authority prepares to merge into the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Collins talks to Stefano Berra about his time at the OFT and his future
An interview with Roger Witcomb
Monday, 28 January 2013
Country Survey • Issue: February 2013
Roger Witcomb has been chairman of the Competition Commission (CC) since May 2011, just months after the UK government announced its plans to created a new competition authority by merging the commission with the UK’s Office of Fair Trading. Faaez Samadi spoke to him about how this change has affected the commission’s work over a very busy couple of years
An interview with Agnete Gersing
Monday, 28 January 2013
Country Survey • Issue: February 2013
Agnete Gersing became head of Denmark’s competition authority in 2006. Since then, she has worked to increase the visibility and reputation of Denmark’s competition enforcer. She talks to Katy Oglethorpe about the sweeping reform about to hit Denmark’s competition regime, why she supports the introduction of greater sanctions, and why detractors in industry and the legal world are mistaken
Denmark’s competition bar
Monday, 28 January 2013
Country Survey • Issue: February 2013
Denmark’s competition bar is not accustomed to big upheavals: the same few practices have dominated the country’s competition field for many years. This may all change, however, with major shifts in the country’s enforcement regime on the horizon. Katy Oglethorpe investigates
The state of Denmark
Monday, 28 January 2013
Country Survey • Issue: February 2013
With some of the lowest fines and detection levels of the European Union, Denmark is set to usher in a reform that aims to drastically alter its competition record. Katy Oglethorpe investigates the increased sanctions and investigatory powers that are dividing opinions in the country’s competition community
An interview with Giovanni Pitruzzella
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Country Survey • Issue: December/January 2012
Giovanni Pitruzzella became president of Italy’s Antitrust Authority at the end of 2011. After a year at its helm, he talks to Stefano Berra about his plans to spread a competition culture in the country and the authority’s track record
Leniency, Pfleiderer and the impossibility of balance
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Online Feature • Issue: December/January 2012
Mick Smith and Christina Petra Grigoriadou of Calunius Capital look at the options open to whistle-blowers in the light of the ECJ’s Pfleiderer decision. Is there a better way, they ask
La dolce vita of a cartelist
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Country Survey • Issue: December/January 2012
Five years after introducing its leniency policy, Italy’s Antitrust Authority is struggling to make it work. Why do cartelists refuse to blow the whistle? Stefano Berra finds out
Italy’s competition bar
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Country Survey • Issue: December/January 2012
These are tough times for an Italian competition lawyer. As Italy’s Antitrust Authority tries to return to its enforcement levels of a decade ago – when it was among the most active in Europe – practitioners privately lament a lack of new cases. Stefano Berra looks at the firms that have managed to hold their position in this turbulent market over the past year
Does competition economics need an overhaul?
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Journal Feature • Issue: December/January 2012
At GCR Live: Litigation 2012, we asked four leading competition specialists to debate the motion that the system for presenting economic evidence in competition cases is in need of a radical overhaul.
IP and competition in China
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Journal Feature • Issue: December/January 2012
Margaret Wang and Richard Bird of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in China examine SAIC’s draft guidelines on the enforcement of competition law in relation to intellectual property rights in China
An interview with Jo Swinson
Monday, 26 November 2012
Journal Feature • Issue: December/January 2012
Jo Swinson, the British government minister for employment relations and consumer affairs, is overseeing the implementation of the country’s new competition regime, together with new rules on private antitrust litigation. David Vascott asks her about the government’s position on the planned changes
Kumbaya on questions of law: Comcast at the Supreme Court
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
This year's US Supreme Court case Comcast Corporation v Behrend raises new questions for class certification in antitrust litigation. David Hanselman and Daniel Powers, from the antitrust group at McDermott Will & Emery, report on yesterday's oral arguments and suggest ways in which the court might proceed.
The lone travel agent
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Journal Feature • Issue: November 2012
Two years ago, travel-booking website owner Dorian Harris began complaining to antitrust enforcers about what he believed was a conspiracy among leading travel websites and hotel chains. Now, the case he prompted is testing the antitrust implications of “best price guarantees” and most-favoured nation agreements. Stefano Berra reports
The enforcer departs
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Country Survey • Issue: November 2012
Melanie Aitken took over Canada’s Competition Bureau three years ago with a mandate to improve antitrust enforcement in the country. She’s done that, bringing scores of cases resulting in guilty pleas and courtroom victories. While critics of her enforcement agenda and approach remain, she insists her time at the bureau was good for Canadians. Ron Knox reports from Ottawa
GCR May 2013
Surveys: Washington, Taiwan • EU Cartel Settlements Round Table, Mexican Amparos • Interviews with Shiow-Ming Wu, Chris Fonteijn, Joe Wayland.
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