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Missing the mark? - The Government's overhaul of the UK's competition regime

The Government tells us that the UK has a "world-class" competition regime. It is hard to know exactly what this means, but the underlying sentiment is clear: the UK regime is one of the best in the world at protecting and encouraging competition. Now we are told that it needs to get better still.
6 minute read

International Edition

Dealmaker: John Davies

Freshfields' head of competition on setting the room on fire and making a spine-tingling mistake
4 minute read

International Edition

Why it pays to come clean - the companies holding their hands up to competition breaches

In April of this year, the European Commission (EC) fined Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Henkel a total of €315.2m (£275m) for fixing the prices of laundry detergents in Europe. Procter & Gamble was fined €211.2m (£184m) and Unilever received a fine of €104m (£91m), while Henkel escaped penalty because it acted as the whistle-blower on the cartel. The case is an example of how perfectly legitimate, and even desirable, co-operation between competitors can go horribly wrong. In the late 1990s, the trade association representing the manufacturers of detergents in Europe launched an environmental initiative to promote sustainable consumption of laundry detergents by recommending manufacturers to reduce dosage and weight of their detergents as well as package sizes.
5 minute read

International Edition

For whom the whistle blows - the rise of corporate whistle-blowing

Charlotte Edmond assesses the growing trend for competition watchdogs to pursue cases via corporate whistle-blowing
7 minute read

International Edition

No safe havens anymore - the global spread of competition enforcement

In recent times, much attention has focused on the significant increase in financial services regulation and anti-bribery law. At the same time, a more steady – some would say relentless – growth story has been the continuing trend towards far more sophisticated competition law enforcement around the world. While agencies in countries with more developed competition regimes are turning to new economic techniques and ever more onerous information demands are becoming the norm, agencies with newer regimes are fast becoming aggressive enforcers. The blank spaces on the map of global competition law enforcement are rapidly being coloured in as countries such as China and India apply their laws in complex cases.
5 minute read

International Edition

On the bonfire - moves to burn up the UK's competition regime divide lawyers

It looks like it's almost a done deal. Among antitrust advisers, the expectation is that it is only a matter of time before the Government makes good on its proposal to merge the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with the Competition Commission (CC).
21 minute read

Legal Week

For whom the whistle blows - the rise of corporate whistle-blowing

Charlotte Edmond assesses the growing trend for competition watchdogs to pursue cases via corporate whistle-blowing
15 minute read

International Edition

CC signs up former Linklaters Brussels antitrust chief

Clifford Chance (CC) has made a high-profile hire in Brussels with the addition of former Linklaters competition partner Johan Ysewyn. Ysewyn, who joined CC yesterday (12 September), was head of Linklaters' Brussels antitrust group and co-head of the firm's global cartel group. Before his departure in March this year, he had spent 16 years at the magic circle firm, including 11 years as a partner.
3 minute read

International Edition

Linklaters Germany partner opts against move to Mayer Brown

Linklaters competition partner Carsten Grave has decided to remain with the magic circle law firm nearly two months after it was announced that he would join Mayer Brown's practice in Cologne. The news comes after the US law firm last month announced the closure of its Berlin and Cologne offices, with Mayer Brown set to launch an office in Duesseldorf at the start of 2012.
2 minute read

International Edition

Bird & Bird relaunches trade and customs practice with Steptoe hire

Bird & Bird is relaunching its dedicated trade and customs practice with the hire of a partner from Steptoe & Johnson in London. The firm brought in Iain MacVay earlier this week (4 July), with the hire making MacVay the sole partner dedicated to the practice, following the departure of Amsterdam-based trade and customs partner Jasper Helder last year.
2 minute read

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