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The Transfer Window: recent moves including BLP, Wragges and Simmons

Simmons & Simmons has moved to boost its new asset management sector group with the hire of DLA Piper's UK investment funds team head David Williams, who is joining the firm as a partner in London. Williams, who was also a partner at DLA Piper, advises on investment funds and asset management work, especially private funds investing in private equity, illiquid credit, real estate and infrastructure.
5 minute read

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Government consults on class action-style competition reforms

The Government is considering introducing 'opt-out' collective actions to enable consumers and businesses to more easily reclaim losses resulting from anti-competitive behaviour. The proposal, which could bring the UK's regime more in line with the US class action system, is part of a consultation launched by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) yesterday (24 April).
2 minute read

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Was Jeremy Hunt's handling of the News Corp-BSkyB deal unlawful?

This week's big news was the relevation at the Leveson Inquiry of the e-mails from Frederic Michel to his NewsCorp colleagues about his contact with Jeremy Hunt, or at least with Jeremy Hunt's special adviser, while Hunt was preparing to decide whether or not to refer NewsCorp's bid for BSkyB to the Competition Commission.
9 minute read

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Cartels and law reform – a conspiracy against the public

Adam Smith is often quoted for his comment on cartels: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices". Less well known is the sentence which followed: "It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice."
7 minute read

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Tougher, maybe faster – advisers assess an attempt to reform competition policy

Greater rigour or streamlined efficiency? Confusion about the real purpose of the looming merger of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Competition Commission (CC) perhaps explains the ambivalent reaction to the proposals announced on 15 March. Because, as competition advisers have argued since the Government floated the idea of unifying the antitrust agencies last October, those aims can easily come into conflict.
6 minute read

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Morgan Lewis leads as Deutsche Boerse sues EC over NYSE merger

Morgan Lewis & Bockius has taken the lead role for Deutsche Boerse on its lawsuit against the European Commission (EC) over the rejection of its merger with NYSE Euronext. The US firm's Frankfurt office has been instructed to advise the German stock exchange following its decision to sue the European Commission at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg.
2 minute read

International Edition

Competition law compliance

As an in-house lawyer you probably advise your company on a broad range of legal issues. You have to be a legal jack of all trades and you're expected to be master of them all! The Office of Fair Trading has developed a suite of materials to provide in-house lawyers with everything they need to know about competition law.
1 minute read

International Edition

Magic circle firms among line-up advising on accountancy competition probe

Linklaters, Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are among a host of firms acting for accountancy giants embroiled in an ongoing Competition Commission investigation.
2 minute read

International Edition

Former European Parliament president to lead EU law firm's London launch

EU lobbying law firm Alber & Geiger is launching in London in a bid to target international companies with a presence in the capital. The Brussels-based firm will open its City office in Westminster's Berkeley Square in March, with partner Lord Charles Henry Plumb heading up the new base.
2 minute read

International Edition

Slaughters leads alongside US duo on $12.5bn Google/Motorola deal

Slaughter and May has advised alongside Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz as Google's $12.5bn (£7.9bn) acquisition of Motorola Mobility yesterday (13 February) gained competition clearance in the US and Europe. Slaughters was brought in to advise Motorola on European competition matters after the acquisition was announced in August last year, with the firm understood to have fielded a team led by Brussels competition partner Claire Jeffs.
1 minute read

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