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By Legal Week | March 30, 2010
Until relatively recently, the implications of a UK competition investigation for individual company directors were limited to inconvenience, potential embarrassment and higher legal bills. At worst, an individual implicated in an infringement could lose his or her job. This is no longer the case. With the trial of the 'BA four' only weeks away, it is a good time to consider the risks that now exist for directors of companies implicated in anti-competitive behaviour. The essential facts are that, on 1 August 2007, the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced that British Airways (BA) had admitted collusion with Virgin Atlantic Airways over long-haul passenger fuel surcharges, contrary to the Competition Act 1998, and had agreed to pay the OFT a penalty of £121.5m.
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By Legal Week | March 17, 2010
The decision of the Court of Justice of the EU in the AM&S case in 1980 is arguably one of the most controversial EU competition law decisions the court has ever made. The court limited the benefit of legal professional privilege in EU competition investigations to communications between firms and external, EU-qualified, lawyers, giving the European Commission the power to order disclosure of communications between firms under investigation and their in-house and non-EU qualified lawyers.
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By Suzi Ring | March 12, 2010
US firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has recruited a Mayer Brown antitrust partner in Brussels. Andres Font Galarza, who started at Gibson Dunn today (12 March), is also a former senior official of the European Commission's directorate general for competition, a role he held for 13 years until he joined Mayer Brown's Brussels antitrust and competition practice in 2008.
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By Suzi Ring | February 15, 2010
White and Case has lost another partner with the departure of antitrust specialist Elaine Johnston to Allen & Overy's (A&O's) New York office. Johnston, who has worked at White and Case since 1993, also held the role of diversity executive partner at the US firm.
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By Emma Sadowski | February 3, 2010
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has bolstered its City EU & competition practice with the hire of BP competition lawyer Andrew Hockley. Hockley, who will take BLP's competition partner headcount to four across the London and Brussels offices, has served as EC competition counsel at BP for the last three years.
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By Jeremy Hodges | January 21, 2010
McDermott Will & Emery is to be left without a single competition partner in London as longstanding partner Scott Megregian leaves for K&L Gates and Alasdair Bell joins football governing body UEFA as general counsel. The pair's departures follow that of fellow competition partner Davina Garrod, who joined Bingham McCutchen earlier this week.
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By Legal Week | January 8, 2010
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has recruited SJ Berwin lawyer Sheldon Mills as its new director of mergers. Mills, who will take up his new role on 15 February, joined SJ Berwin's EU and competition practice in January 2007 from the London office of US firm Jones Day.
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By Legal Week | December 18, 2009
Herbert Smith competition partner Jonathan Scott has been named as the firm's new senior partner after a contested election process. Scott was announced as the successful candidate today (18 December) - receiving over 50% of the votes - after standing against Moscow managing partner Allen Hanen. Disputes partner Tim Parkes stepped out of the race earlier this week after receiving the fewest votes from the partnership in the first round of elections.
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By Legal Week | December 4, 2009
Bird & Bird has bolstered its EU and competition practice with the hire of Anne Federle from Linklaters. Federle is set to join Bird & Bird next month as a partner in the UK top 20 firm's Brussels office.
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By Legal Week | October 28, 2009
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge is continuing its push in the City, launching its second new practice area in London in under six months. The Boston-based law firm is entering the European competition market with the hire of Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) competition partner Becket McGrath.
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By Bruce Love | August 3, 2022
Guillermo Christensen—Ice Miller's D.C. managing partner—has left for K&L Gates.
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By Andrew Goudsward | August 2, 2022
Peter Mucchetti, a partner at Clifford Chance, represented Stephen King as he took the stand in support of DOJ's challenge of the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.
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By Aleeza Furman | August 1, 2022
In the time since the start of the litigation, many defendants settled, and three remaining defendants went on to trial against a group of grocery store chains designated as direct action plaintiffs.
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By Andrew Goudsward | August 1, 2022
The three-week-long trial is focused on competition in the market for books viewed as potential bestsellers.
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By Carl W. Hittinger and Tyson Y. Herrold | July 29, 2022
According to a case filed in the Southern District of New York, a new agreement capping the number of minor league affiliates at 120 is alleged to constitute a group boycott in violation of the Sherman Act Section 1.
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By Andrew Goudsward | July 28, 2022
DOJ's challenge of the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, which heads to trial on Monday, is based on an unusual theory that best-selling authors will be harmed.
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By Tasha Norman | July 27, 2022
Hard work is more likely to bring rewards if you have a clear direction, and you have to act intentionally to follow that direction.
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By Andrew Goudsward | July 27, 2022
The Justice Department is challenging the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster on the theory that top authors will be harmed.
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By The Associated Press | July 25, 2022
In its lawsuit, the Justice Department alleges the companies have been engaged in a multiyear conspiracy to exchange information about the wages and benefits of workers at poultry processing plants to drive down employee competition in the marketplace.
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By Andrew Goudsward | July 20, 2022
The Justice Department is searching for a new chief of its money laundering and asset recovery section amid a heightened focus on illicit activity involving Russia.
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