In-house counsel from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, RIM, Nokia, eBay, Philips, Cisco and Qualcomm will be among the panellists at GCR Live: Antitrust & Technology 2012.
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Arnold & Porter antitrust head William J Baer to become the new assistant attorney general in charge of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division, the White House announced on Friday.
The deadline for sending your nominations for the GCR Awards 2012 is fast approaching. We are looking to receive nominations from law firms, economics firms, competition authorities, corporate legal departments, and universities.
Profiling firms across 41 jurisdictions, the 12th edition of the GCR 100, a truly global analysis of the leading law and economics practices worldwide, is now published.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Sharis Pozen has informed the US Department of Justice that she will be stepping down as head of the antitrust division in April, leaving the Obama Administration just three months to get new division leadership confirmed in the Senate.
Crowell & Moring has promoted Sean-Paul Brankin to partner in its Brussels’ antitrust practice and Ryan Tisch to partner in its Washington, DC antitrust office.
Warren Rosborough has joined McDermott Will & Emery’s antitrust practice in Washington, DC as a partner, leaving the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division (DoJ).