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ECJ rules that a development agreement between two contracting authorities is a works contract that must be tendered

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, France
  • -
  • January 31 2007

The ECJ handed down judgment in Case C-22005, Auroux, on 18 January 2007 following a referral from the Tribunal administratif de Lyon (Tribunal

EU court upholds antitrust decision against FTsubsidiary

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 2 2007

On Tuesday, the Luxembourg-based Court of First Instancethe second highest court in the European Union (EU)dealt a setback to France Telecom (FT), upholding a 2003 decree by the European Commission (EC) that FT’s Wanadoo Internet subsidiary abused its dominant market position by engaging in predatory pricing

Federal court dismisses antitrust suit alleging unlawful joint bidding arrangements among private equity firms

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 29 2008

A federal district court judge in the Western District of Washington recently dismissed an antitrust class action suit alleging that two private equity funds had unlawfully conspired in their bid to acquire WatchGuard Technologies (“WatchGuard”), a publicly traded company

To cooperate or not: the Corporate Leniency Program after Stolt-Nielsen

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 3 2008

Since 1993, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s Corporate Leniency Program has been instrumental in the Antitrust Division’s crusade against antitrust violators

CAT’s ruling on disclosure of Morgan Crucible’s leniency application

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 27 2008

Emerson and others have brought a private action for damages before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) against Morgan Crucible plc (MC) for loss suffered as a result of MC’s participation in the carbon and graphide products cartel

US Supreme Court uses antitrust case to ease standard for dismissing baseless civil claims

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2007

On May 21, 2007, the Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 127 S.Ct. 1955, sent a clear message that plaintiffs cannot survive early motions to dismiss by relying on conclusory pleadings and the hope of finding facts in discovery to support their claims

Court confirms violation of competition rules by German recycling company

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • June 1 2007

The Court of First Instance (CFI) has dismissed in its entirety the appeal by Duales System Deutschland (DSD) against two decisions of the European Commission concerning its system for collection and recycling of packaging waste

Federal court judge rules joint-bidding private equity funds did not violate antitrust laws

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2008

In a case of first impression, a federal district court found that an agreement by two private equity funds to bid jointly for the acquisition of a publicly traded company, after initially submitting separate bids, did not violate federal antitrust laws

New Supreme Court decision changes standard on motions to dismiss

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2007

In Bell Atlantic Corporation v. Twombly, No. 05-1126, the Supreme Court, by a 7-2 vote, tightened the standards for pleading an antitrust conspiracy

Prym appeals CFI needles cartel judgment

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 27 2008

William Prym GmbH & Co.KG and Prym Consumer GmbH (Prym) have lodged an appeal against a CFI judgment to uphold the Commission’s 2004 fine of 30m for infringement of Article 81 by participating in a market-sharing cartel in the needles and haberdashery sector