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Antitrust Practice
On September 14, 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) issued its long-awaited decision in Akzo Nobel Chemicals and Akcros Chemicals v. Commission (Case C-550/07 P), confirming that commu... more
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Antitrust Practice
On May 27, the European Commission (the Commission) published its new Motor Vehicle Sector Block Exemption Regulation (MVBER) and supplementary Guidelines (the Guidelines). The revision of the rules relating to... more
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Antitrust Practice
On April 29, German Advocate General Juliane Kokott at the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice) handed down her opinion in Akzo v. European Commission (Case C-550/07 P). The opinio... more
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Antitrust Practice
After a long and somewhat contentious review process, the European Commission (the Commission) published its long-awaited new Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and Guidelines (the Guidelines) on Apri... more
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Antitrust Practice
The German Ministry of Economics has proposed changes to the German Act Against Restraints on Competition ( Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen , or GWB) that would grant the German Federal Carte... more
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Antitrust Practice
On November 27, President José Manuel Barroso of the European Commission announced the new members of the European Commission, naming Spain's Joaquín Almunia as the next EU Commissioner for Competitionmore
Presentation | Speech
Denise Backhouse
This presentation focused on cost-effective data protection compliance measures suggested in recent EU guidelines, and described current U.S. initiatives to facilitate the protection of transferred data.
Lively discussi... more
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Antitrust Practice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its long-awaited decision in C-501/06 P GlaxoSmithKline Services v. Commission today (October 6, 2009). The ECJ overturned the European Commission's (EC's or ... more
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Antitrust Practice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed September 9, 2009, in Akzo Nobel and Others v. Commission (Case C-97/08 P), that parent companies are presumed to be liable for cartel violations committed by their... more
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Antitrust Practice
In a decision published last week, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) significantly expanded the European Commission’s (the Commission’s) power to intervene in national court proceedings (see Case No. C- 42... more
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Antitrust Practice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on September 16 that pharmaceutical companies that occupy a dominant position with respect to a particular drug may not refuse to meet “ordinary” orders from wholesa... more
Outside Publication | Chapter
Izzet Sinan
An extract from The Handbook of Competition Enforcement Agencies 2008, a Global Competition Review special report (www.globalcompetitionreview.com). Reproduced with permission.
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Antitrust Practice
The European Commission (the Commission) published its long-awaited White Paper on Damages Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules (the White Paper) on April 2. The White Paper proposes a number of reforms... more
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Antitrust
On September 17, the European Court of First Instance handed down the long-awaited judgment in the Akzo Nobel ( Akzo ) case, upholding the Commission’s May 8, 2003 decision on the scope of legal privilege ... more
Outside Publication | Book
John Shenefield, Christian Zschocke, Jürgen Beninca, Izzet Sinan, Jean Leygonie
Written by Jürgen Beninca and Christian Zschocke (with contributions from John Shenefield, Izzet Sinan, and Jean Leygonie), Antitrust in Praxis – A Guideline describes major principles of European and German... more
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Antitrust
On July 9, 2007, the European Court of First Instance handed down a judgment in favor of Apollo Management and Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., upholding Hexion’s acquisition of Akzo Nobel’s Inks and Adhesi... more
Presentation | Webinar
Kenneth Turnbull, François Vergne, Walter Ahrens
The European partners of Morgan Lewis's International Employment Practice discussed the impact of the latest European age discrimination legislation:
- Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 in the UK
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Antitrust
The European Commission (the Commission) has further strengthened the deterrent factor in fines for violations of European Community antitrust rules by issuing new guidelines (the Guidelines), designed to increase the l... more
Presentation | Webinar
Kenneth Turnbull, Mark Dichter, François Vergne, Walter Ahrens
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Antitrust
On December 19, the European Commission released its long-awaited discussion paper on "exclusionary abuses" under Article 82 of the EC treaty. Article 82, which is analogous to Section 2 of the Sherman Act, pro... more