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  • Getting the Deal Through - Foreign Investment Review 2012 - This guide considers the law and policy governing foreign investment in UK entities, in particular regarding when the UK government may intervene in a transaction on public interest grounds. Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through – Foreign Investment Review 2012, (published in April, 2012; contributing editor: Oliver Borgers, McCarthy Tétrault LLP). For further information please visit www.GettingTheDealThrough.com.  Read more > 
  • Guide to EU merger control - Muddled by merger control?  This guide provides an in-depth and practical analysis of the EU merger control legislation and its application in practice, including illustrative flow-charts. (© Practical Law Company, May 2012, www.practicallaw.com).  Read more >
  • European Union Overview - The Handbook of Competition Enforcement Agencies 2012 - What were the European Commission’s key legislative and enforcement priorities in competition law this year? We discuss cartels, mergers, State aid and abuse of dominance, plus major strategic personnel changes. (www.GlobalCompetitionReview.com, May 2012).  Read more > 
  • EU Regulatory Oversight - the New Bodies - Increasingly, EU policy and legislation is behind many of the key regulatory developments in the financial services industry.  By the time regulatory change affects national legislation and rulebooks, it may have been several years in the various stages of consultation and proposal at European level. Recently, the EU regulatory architecture underwent significant change. This briefing explains the various new bodies and their powers. Read more>
  • 10th anniversary of the International Competition Network - To mark this occasion, Dave Anderson contributed to a book of essays entitled: The International Competition Network at Ten: Origins, Accomplishments and Aspirations" (ed. P Lugard, Intersential Publishing).  Dave has been active in the ICN since its inception and is one of a select number of private sector lawyers participating as "non-governmental advisers" (NGA) where Dave serves the European Commission. Dave's essay reflected on the role of NGAs and the private sector in the law and policy work of the ICN during its first decade and beyond.  Read more >
  • Cartels in the European Union: Procedural Fairness for Defendants and Claimants - This article considers in detail the procedural challenges faced by companies involved in EU cartel investigations, as well as the hurdles for plaintiffs in bringing successful private damages actions. This essay was first published in the Fordham International Law Journal as David Anderson & Rachel Cuff, Cartels in the European Union: Procedural Fairness for Defendants and Claimants, 34 Fordham Int’l L.J. 385 (2011)."  Read more > 
  • New rules on vertical agreements - are yours on the straight and narrow? - The European Commission has published a revised block exemption regulation and accompanying guidelines relating to vertical agreements. All businesses involved in supply and distribution arrangements should consider the new rules to try to ensure that their existing and new agreements fall within the revised legislation. (April 2010).  Read more > 
  • Court confirms no privilege for in-house lawyers in EU competition cases - The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has confirmed that communications between in-house lawyers and their clients are not covered by legal professional privilege in EU competition investigations. Read more >
  • Changes to competition law and land agreements - latest.  From 6 April 2011, land agreements will no longer have any special exemption from competition law. Land agreements (or restrictive provisions in them) which prevent, restrict or distort competition to an appreciable extent will be unenforceable unless they merit individual exemption.  Substantial fines can also be imposed for serious breaches of competition law.    Read more >

 

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