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Changes to the UK competition regime how will they affect my deal?

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 14 2013

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (the Act), enacted on 25 April 2013, will make changes to the process of assessing mergers

The European Commission reacts to criticism: new best practices on the conduct of antitrust procedures published

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • October 21 2011

On 17 October 2011, the European Commission (“Commission”) adopted a series of measures which “aim at increasing interaction with parties in antitrust proceedings and strengthening the mechanisms for safeguarding parties’ procedural rights.”

Merger control in Germany German court clarifies controversial jurisdictional issues

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • August 16 2012

In a recently published decision1 the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf provided interesting guidance on how to deal with jurisdictional uncertainties of German merger control

ECN revises its Model Leniency Programme

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 30 2012

The network of European antitrust and competition authorities (“ECN”) published its revised Model Leniency Programme (“Revised MLP”) recently

ECJ annuls Commission decisions in Solvay soda ash market cases

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 7 2011

On 25 October 2011, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) set aside the General Court’s judgment, and annulled the Commission’s decision, in relation to Solvay’s conduct on the soda ash market

Leniency applications protected: German court denies private plaintiffs access to file

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 1 2012

Yesterday, a decision of the Local Court of Bonn, Germany, became public denying a company seeking redress from cartelists access to a leniency application and documentary evidence submitted in the context of a cartel proceeding

Commission fines CRT glass producers 129 million in fourth EU settlement decision

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 7 2011

On 19 October 2011, the Commission announced that it has settled its investigation into cartel activity by four cathode ray tube (“CRT”) glass producers

CAT publishes notification of appeal by Tesco in dairy retail products case

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 7 2011

On 17 October 2011, the CAT published notice of an appeal made by Tesco against the Commission’s decision to fine Tesco for its involvement in the dairy retail products cartel

OFTCC reforms throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 21 2012

One year after opening a consultation on merging the two UK competition authorities, the British Government announced on 15 March 2012 its response

OFT and CC publish joint merger assessment guidelines

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 20 2010

On 16 September 2010, following a public consultation in 2009 and a call for further comments on a revised draft in AprilMay 2010, the OFT and the Competition Commission ("CC") published the final version of their new joint merger assessment guidelines