Latest Features From Global Competition Review http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/ The Latest Features From Global Competition Review en-gb Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:30:06 GMT david.vascott@globalcompetitionreview.com webmaster@lbresearch.com <![CDATA[California's antitrust bar]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27695/ When the antitrust group at Heller Ehrman disbanded in late 2008, it sent shockwaves through California’s antitrust landscape, reports Ron Knox. While the top of the state’s antitrust bar has remained relatively stable amid the chaos, several firms have positioned themselves to become the cream of the state’s antitrust crop over the next decade

]]> Global Competition Review Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:21:17 GMT <![CDATA[An interview with Niall Lynch]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27685/ Assistant chief, US Department of Justice, antitrust division, San Francisco field office

 

]]> Global Competition Review Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:15:25 GMT <![CDATA[An Interview with Phillip Warren]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27691/ Chief, United States Department of Justice, antitrust division, San Francisco field office

 

]]> Global Competition Review Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:10:04 GMT <![CDATA[The Czech Republic's competition bar]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27693/ Tough economic times mean that many Czech firms have battened down the hatches.

]]> Global Competition Review Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:05:04 GMT <![CDATA[An interview with Petr Rafaj]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27692/ Petr Rafaj, the new head of the Czech Republic’s Office for the Protection of Competition, began his job in July last year as a newcomer to competition law. Rosalind Donald spoke with him to discuss the challenges he faces and his vision for the authority.

]]> Global Competition Review Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:03:27 GMT <![CDATA[Supermarket power]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27689/ Supermarkets in the Czech Republic are furious about new government measures designed to protect suppliers from aggressive pricing and unfair contracts. Rosalind Donald finds out why the country’s competition community is behind them.

]]> Global Competition Review Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:01:35 GMT <![CDATA[Pursuing European regulatory cooperation and consistency]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27727/ Last year saw a number of regulatory institutional developments that appear to have reopened the debate, at least in some quarters, over the most effective and appropriate model for the regulated economic sectors, writes Miranda Cole of Covington & Burling in Brussels

]]> Global Competition Review Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:22:40 GMT <![CDATA[2009 year-end criminal antitrust review]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27739/ Partner David Burns and associates Joshua Hess, Geoffrey Weien and Russell Gold of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP review last year’s antitrust enforcement record

]]> Global Competition Review Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:08:47 GMT <![CDATA[Competition Law and Practice - A review of major jurisdictions]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27737/ Editor: Marjorie Holmes, partner, Reed Smith
Price: £125
Publisher: CMP Publishing

Review by Fergus Randolph QC, Brick Court Chambers, London and Brussels

]]> Global Competition Review Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:43:47 GMT <![CDATA[The front line]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27684/ The prosecutors in the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division field office in San Francisco have quietly – and sometimes not so quietly – cracked down on some of the largest international cartels in the world. But it wasn’t always that way. Ron Knox looks at the office’s work over the past two decades

]]> Global Competition Review Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:52:29 GMT <![CDATA[Certification of antitrust class actions in Canada: is the bar lowering?]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/27728/ Two Canadian courts have recently certified class actions alleging global price-fixing conspiracies, write Linda Plumpton, Omar Wakil and Sandeep Joshi of Torys LLP. The decisions are significant because they depart in key respects from the leading decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in this area. Read together, they suggest that the bar for certification of antitrust class actions in Canada may be lowering

]]> Global Competition Review Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:28:30 GMT <![CDATA[Italy's competition bar]]> http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/19605/ Italy’s Antitrust Authority provides a steady stream of work for both foreign and domestic firms. Emily Gray met the firms that are jostling for position.

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