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The Compliance Stepchild: Antitrust

by Michael Volkov on 5/13/2013

Let’s try and put this all in perspective. Last fiscal year, the Antitrust Division collected over $1 billion in criminal fines and sent a number of senior executives to prison. ...more

Through a Glass Darkly: A U Optronics and the Extraterritorial Application of the Sherman Act

by Mark Cohen, Scott Thomson | Cohen & Gresser LLP on 3/5/2013

Can price-fixing abroad be prosecuted criminally under the U.S. Sherman Act? The antitrust bar might well raise an eyebrow at the question. Since international cartels became a focus of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust...more

A Dutch Court Hands Down the First Substantive Damages Judgment in the Netherlands for an Infringement of Competition Law

by David Henry, Wilko van Weert | McDermott Will & Emery on 2/27/2013

In a recent judgment, a District Court in the Netherlands (the DCA) handed down a judgment in what is the first substantive damages judgment in the Netherlands for a breach of competition law. In issuing the declaration of...more

Antimonopoly Law Considerations and Risk Management in Connection with M&A Transactions - Assessing Competition Risks in...

by Philippe Rincazaux | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/21/2013

Introduction: Allocation of antitrust risk is an issue that frequently arises between parties in mergers or acquisitions that raise potential antitrust concerns. • Motivations of the buyer and the seller are the...more

Joint and Several Liability For Antitrust Fines: Parent Company Can Benefit From a Reduction in Its Subsidiary’s Fine

by Philip Bentley, Philipp Werner | McDermott Will & Emery on 2/11/2013

A judgment of the EU General Court in March 2011, upheld on appeal by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 22 January 2013, is potentially good news for parent companies. Where both a parent company and its...more

Getting the Deal Through – Cartel Regulation 2013: Global Overview and United States

by Peter Carney, Martin Toto | White & Case LLP on 2/8/2013

Global Overview: Continued aggressive cartel enforcement in 2012 Authorities around the world continued to vigorously enforce cartel law in 2012. Total fines increased in many jurisdictions, and authorities around the...more

Antitrust and Competition Newsletter - February 2013

by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/8/2013

In This Issue: - A Modern Look at the Nine ‘No-Nos’ of Patent Licensing Under U.S. Antitrust Law: The First Four ‘No-Nos’ - Supreme Court Grants Cert. in Watson Reverse Payment Settlement Case - 7th Circuit...more

Focus On Competition, Antitrust And Foreign Investment - January 2013: "Investment Canada And Competition Law – 2012 In Review and...

by Sharon Seung, Sandy Walker | Dentons on 2/1/2013

In This Issue: - Investment Canada ..State-Owned Enterprises Under Scrutiny - Competition Act ..Mergers ..Cartels And Bid-Rigging ..Price Maintenance ..Abuse Of Dominance ..Competition Bureau...more

European Commission to Settle Half its Ongoing Cartel Investigations in 2013

by Philip Bentley, Philipp Werner | McDermott Will & Emery on 1/30/2013

Joaquín Almunia, the European Union’s Commissioner for Competition, has announced that the European Commission hopes to settle around half of its outstanding cartel cases in 2013. It’s time to review the European Union’s...more

German Federal Cartel Office Levies Administrative Fine Due to Incomplete Merger Notification

by Robert Bäuerle, Martina Maier, Philipp Werner | McDermott Will & Emery on 1/24/2013

The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has imposed an administrative fine for the submission of incomplete information in a merger notification. The missing information concerned details about shareholdings essential for the...more

A Busy Year in Court: Canadian Competition Law in 2012

by Kyle H. Donnelly, Andrew Little | Bennett Jones LLP on 1/23/2013

2012 was a busy year for Canadian competition litigation, as numerous cases were heard or decided. The Supreme Court of Canada heard three class proceedings cases involving the Competition Act and the Competition Tribunal had...more

Release of Confidential Cartel Information by European Commission to English High Court Suspended

by Philip Bentley, Philipp Werner | McDermott Will & Emery on 1/16/2013

On 29 November 2012, the EU General Court (GC) issued a provisional order suspending the European Commission’s decision to communicate to the High Court of England and Wales a copy of Alstom’s reply to the statement of...more

ACCC Takes Enforcement Action Against Manufacturers of Car Parts for Alleged Cartel Conduct

by Murray Deakin, Sylvia Ng | K&L Gates LLP on 1/9/2013

The latest Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) cartel enforcement action involves the institution of civil proceedings in the Federal Court in Adelaide against Japanese company Yazaki Corporation (Yazaki) as...more

Chinese Authorities Fine LCD Cartel Members in NDRC’s First Global Cartel Decision

by Veronica Lockyer | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 1/8/2013

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has fined six liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturers a total of RMB 353 million (USD 56 million) for their participation in a cartel to fix the price of LCD panels...more

New Competition Regulation in the United Arab Emirates - Considerations for Commercial Practices and Transactions

by King & Spalding on 1/8/2013

This briefing identifies the types of practices and transactions in which domestic competition law might be relevant to doing business in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE) in light of the new federal competition law set to...more

China’s Antitrust Authority Imposes Fines on Foreign Corporations for the First Time

by Henry Chen | McDermott Will & Emery on 1/7/2013

Recently China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) imposed an RMB 353 million (USD 56.7 million) penalty against an international price-fixing cartel of LCD manufacturers, the largest the NDRC has ever imposed...more

European Competition Network Revises the Model Leniency Programme

by Robert Bäuerle, Lionel Lesur, Veronica Pinotti, Philipp Werner | McDermott Will & Emery on 12/21/2012

The network of European antitrust regulators, the European Competition Network, has revised its model leniency programme for cartels. Major changes include a broader scope for summary applications when applying for leniency...more

Avoiding Anti-competitive Employee Recruitment Arrangements: The United States Department of Justice Challenges eBay and the...

by Subrata Bhattacharjee, Adam S. Goodman | Heenan Blaikie LLP on 12/21/2012

In 2010, the government of Canada amended the Competition Act, making anti-competitive conspiracies between competitors or potential competitors a per se criminal offence, requiring no evidence of an adverse impact on...more

Grassley: HSBC Should Face Criminal Charges [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 12/19/2012

Dec. 19 (Bloomberg Law) -- United States Senator Charles Grassley (R - Iowa) and Bloomberg Contributing Editor Neil Barofsky talk with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about HSBC's recent settlement with US authorities over claims...more

Record $1.92 Billion in Fines and Penalties Levied against HSBC

by Keith R. Fisher, Alan S. Kaplinsky, Beth Moskow-Schnoll | Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/14/2012

HSBC Holdings, London, and two of its U.S. subsidiaries have been ordered to pay a record $1.92 billion in fines and penalties for anti-money laundering (AML) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) violations....more

The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Cartels & Leniency 2013, 6th Edition: Chapter 9: CANADA

by Susan Paul | Dentons on 12/13/2012

1 The Legislative Framework of the Cartel Prohibition: 1.1 What is the legal basis and general nature of the cartel prohibition, e.g. is it civil and/or criminal? The legal basis of cartel prohibition in Canada...more

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The Compliance Stepchild: Antitrust

Through a Glass Darkly: A U Optronics and the Extraterritorial Application of the Sherman Act

A Dutch Court Hands Down the First Substantive Damages Judgment in the Netherlands for an Infringement of Competition Law

Antimonopoly Law Considerations and Risk Management in Connection with M&A Transactions - Assessing Competition Risks in...

Joint and Several Liability For Antitrust Fines: Parent Company Can Benefit From a Reduction in Its Subsidiary’s Fine

Getting the Deal Through – Cartel Regulation 2013: Global Overview and United States

Antitrust and Competition Newsletter - February 2013

Focus On Competition, Antitrust And Foreign Investment - January 2013: "Investment Canada And Competition Law – 2012 In Review and...

European Commission to Settle Half its Ongoing Cartel Investigations in 2013

German Federal Cartel Office Levies Administrative Fine Due to Incomplete Merger Notification

A Busy Year in Court: Canadian Competition Law in 2012

Release of Confidential Cartel Information by European Commission to English High Court Suspended

ACCC Takes Enforcement Action Against Manufacturers of Car Parts for Alleged Cartel Conduct

Chinese Authorities Fine LCD Cartel Members in NDRC’s First Global Cartel Decision

New Competition Regulation in the United Arab Emirates - Considerations for Commercial Practices and Transactions

China’s Antitrust Authority Imposes Fines on Foreign Corporations for the First Time

European Competition Network Revises the Model Leniency Programme

Avoiding Anti-competitive Employee Recruitment Arrangements: The United States Department of Justice Challenges eBay and the...

Grassley: HSBC Should Face Criminal Charges [Video]

Record $1.92 Billion in Fines and Penalties Levied against HSBC

The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Cartels & Leniency 2013, 6th Edition: Chapter 9: CANADA

Grassley: HSBC Should Face Criminal Charges [Video]

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