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By Legal Week | April 18, 2012
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."
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By Sofia Lind | March 29, 2012
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.
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By Friederike Heine | March 21, 2012
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.
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By Legal Week | March 21, 2012
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.
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By Rose Orlik | March 15, 2012
Linklaters, Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are among a host of firms acting for accountancy giants embroiled in an ongoing Competition Commission investigation.
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By Suzi Ring | February 27, 2012
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.
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By Suzi Ring | February 14, 2012
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.
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By Sofia Lind | February 13, 2012
SJ Berwin EU and competition head Stephen Kon has become the first candidate to put himself forward for the firm's senior partner role following Jonathan Blake's announcement that he will not stand for a third term. Blake, whose tenure will come to an end on 30 April, informed SJ Berwin's partners earlier this month (3 February) that he would not seek re-election.
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By Legal Week | November 7, 2011
Hogan Lovells consultant Simon Polito has been appointed as one of three new deputy chairmen of the UK's Competition Commission. Polito, who is based in Hogan Lovells's City base, is a member of the firm's antitrust, competition and economic regulation practice. He was a partner at legacy Lovells for 26 years, and led the firm's EU and competition law practice from 2001 to 2004.
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By Legal Week | October 25, 2011
Dechert has recruited DLA Piper partner Miriam Gonzalez - the wife of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg - as the new head of the firm's EU trade and EU government affairs practice. Gonzalez, currently DLA Piper's head of trade and government relations, is joining the US-based firm's London office.
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By Andrew Goudsward | October 31, 2022
Judge Florence Pan agreed with Justice Department arguments that the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster would harm competition for books viewed as potential best-sellers.
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By Bruce Love | October 31, 2022
Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel will focus on criminal investigations, merger/nonmerger civil matters and antitrust actions taken by the DOJ, FTC and European Commission.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 28, 2022
Dena Sharp, of Girard Sharp, cut her teeth on antitrust law, suing Google and pharmaceutical firms, but, in the past year, she played key roles in the first IVF-related loss trial and in class actions against Juul. "She's exactly who you want in the foxhole with you," said Lieff Cabraser's Sarah London, who worked with Sharp in both cases.
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By Jane Wester | October 26, 2022
While four minor league teams did establish antitrust standing and adequately plead an antitrust violation, U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter said the baseball exemption "is a different skein of yarn."
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By Bruce Love | October 25, 2022
Vinson & Elkins' Craig Seebald has hinted at further antitrust hires down the road.
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By Nicole D. Galli and Andrew J. Costa | October 21, 2022
Over the last few years, the Biden administration and legislatures in dozens of states have increasingly focused on efforts to preserve employee mobility, most notably by increasingly placing limits on the use of restrictive covenants and targeting as anticompetitive other measures like no-poach clauses between competitors.
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By ALM Staff | October 20, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Christine Schiffner | October 20, 2022
From battling for MDL leadership, to positing one-off arguments on precedential matters, to undercutting fees, senior members of the plaintiffs bar warn colleagues on the need to be more unified.
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By Neil C. Schur | October 19, 2022
Given that landscape, it is unsurprising that legislators and antitrust regulators alike have tried for years to rein in the power of Big Tech, but they have had limited success.
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By Tasha Norman | October 19, 2022
The more time you spend working to make those around you successful, the better off you will be both personally and professionally, Heather Burke says.
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