Premium Article - Friday, 18 February 2011
Mining company Anglo American and cement-maker Lafarge have retained a heavyweight competition team to steer a proposed £1.8 billion joint venture past the European Commission.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 02 February 2011
GCR talks to Stéphanie Yon, former international adviser to the president of the French Competition Authority.
Premium Article - Monday, 31 January 2011
A French appeals court has overturned antitrust fines against France Télécom and Vivendi, nullifying punishment doled out by the country’s Competition Authority in 2004.
Premium Article - Friday, 28 January 2011
France’s Competition Authority has fined 14 restoration companies €10 million for cartel infringements.
Premium Article - Thursday, 27 January 2011
The Paris Court of Appeal has cleared French port operator Terminal Porte Océane (TPO) and its parent company Perrigault of illegal collusion.
Premium Article - Friday, 21 January 2011
France’s Competition Authority says further steps are needed to ensure online horse race betting becomes competitive – including the possibility of breaking off online operations from their market-leading parent companies.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 18 January 2011
France’s Competition Authority has released draft guidelines on the methods it follows when setting fines for antitrust violations.
Premium Article - Thursday, 13 January 2011
France’s Supreme Court has reaffirmed its decision that the Competition Authority’s evidence in a cartel investigation gathered from covert telephone recordings was inadmissible.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 04 January 2011
France could have to pay compensation to two companies after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that a law governing dawn raids breached the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.
Premium Article - Thursday, 23 December 2010
France’s Competition Authority has fined eight companies €53 million for cartel activity in the road-sign industry.
Premium Article - Monday, 20 December 2010
France’s Competition Authority has dropped two investigations of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) companies after discovering that evidence in a leniency application had been altered and fabricated.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 15 December 2010
France's Competition Authority says that it is prepared to litigate to resolve Google’s potential abuse of its dominant position in France if the European Commission doesn’t address the issue first.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 24 November 2010
France’s Court of Cassation yesterday reinstated a decision by the country’s former Competition Council to fine 15 perfume manufacturers and distributors €46 million for vertical price fixing.
Premium Article - Thursday, 18 November 2010
Featured In: November 2010 (Vol. 13 Iss. 10)
Jérôme Philippe and Aude-Charlotte Guyon
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Paris
Premium Article - Monday, 08 November 2010
France’s Competition Authority has announced new appointments in its investigation, economist and merger divisions.
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