Premium Article - Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Featured In: February 2009 (Vol. 12 Iss. 2)
Last year, merger work in the UK's largest competition practices filled schedules and boosted bottom lines. But with credit markets still frozen, few expect that degree of work to continue. Ron Knox explains how firms in the Magic Circle and beyond are working to ensure the other pillars of their competition work can prop up their practices until the markets thaw.
Premium Article - Monday, 09 February 2009
Pinar Bagci has joined economics consultancy CEG in London as a partner.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 04 February 2009
The UK's Competition Commission has blocked a video-on-demand joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel Four Television.
Premium Article - Thursday, 29 January 2009
David Saunders, a former head of consumer and competition policy at the UK's Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, has been named chief executive of the Competition Commission.
Premium Article - Thursday, 29 January 2009
The UK Competition Commission has today published its final report on the payment protection insurance (PPI) market.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Europe's Court of First Instance has rejected Intel's application for more time to respond to DG Comp's statement of objections against the company.
Premium Article - Monday, 26 January 2009
Christopher Brown, a former UK Competition Appeal Tribunal referendaire, has joined Matrix Chambers from Farrer & Co LLP.
Premium Article - Friday, 23 January 2009
The parents of two children who attended UK fee-paying school Lancing College are pursuing a claim for damages against the school at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Premium Article - Friday, 23 January 2009
The UK's Competition Commission has recommended further reductions of mobile phone call termination charges, following a referral from the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Premium Article - Thursday, 22 January 2009
The UK Administrative Court has partially accepted sub-sea technology company Cityhook's request for judicial review of an Office of Fair Trading decision to close its investigation of an alleged collective boycott of the company.
Premium Article - Thursday, 22 January 2009
Measures to combat the financial crisis should not overlook the importance of competitive markets, John Fingleton, chief executive of the UK's Office of Fair Trading told delegates at the Annual Charles River Associates conference in Brussels.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 21 January 2009
The UK's Financial Services Authority announced yesterday that five leading banks would stop selling controversial ‘single premium' payment protection insurance for loans. Both the FSA and the UK's Competition Commission are investigating the market.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Featured In: GCR 100 - 9th Edition
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is, by several measures, the world's top competition practice.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Featured In: GCR 100 - 9th Edition
With one of the best competition lawyers on the planet leading its practice, it's unsurprising that Linklaters comes near the top of the GCR Global Elite list.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Featured In: GCR 100 - 9th Edition
Three-quarters of Allen & Overy's competition partners - and 92 per cent of the firm's equity partnership - are Who's Who nominees.
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