An interview with Gil Ohana
This set of three papers is derived from the training session on the Private enforcement organized by the Concurrences Review that has held on 5th July 2012 in Brussels.
Merger review at the US antitrust agencies considers, as the 2010 Merger Guidelines put it, “any reasonably available and reliable evidence.”
Analysis of the nature of antitrust infringements, the rationale of company
liability for antitrust infringements, and the possible positive and possible negative effects of compliance programmes.
The beginning of a shift toward a more regulatory and less litigation-oriented regime of antitrust enforcement was observable by the mid-1990s, if not earlier. The transition
toward this more bureaucratic approach by antitrust enforcement agencies is the subject of our analysis.
This article analyzes data from the FTC’s and the DOJ’s review of mergers over thirty years, from 1981 through 2010, for correlations to shifts in political administration.
This article discusses the scope for applying EU Competition Law, by critically analyzing both the recent European Commission’s policy and the views taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) and by the General Court (GC), with regard to the misuse of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) related procedures and reverse payments.
This initiative is dedicated to information exchange between competition agencies,
as part of its ongoing work on capacity building and international cooperation.
This primer provides a detailed analysis of M&A activity by deal value, volume and type together with analysis of the political environment and deep rooted financial crisis. It considers recent legal developments in corporate, competition, tax and, pension and employment in the context of M&A throughout Europe.
Annexes to the impact assessment.