The European Commission has fined pharmaceutical company Lundbeck €94 million and several generic drug makers €52 million for delaying the entry of generic drugs to the EU market. It is the first fine issued in a reverse-payment case under European law.
The US Federal Trade Commission should avoid using section 5 of the FTC Act to attack business practices that have real, measurable benefits regardless of the harm they might inflict on competition, according to a proposed policy statement published today.
In a decision that has been described as important and far-reaching, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) yesterday ruled that companies may not escape sanctions under EU competition law even if acting on a ruling by a national competition authority or court.
The US capital's antitrust bar is on the verge of a generational shift – yet it remains as deep and talented as ever. Ron Knox and Katy Oglethorpe examine the top teams working in the hub of antitrust law.
The Netherlands’ Authority for Consumers & Markets, a new authority that has combined the Competition Authority, telecoms regulator and consumer protection agency, officially opened its doors today. GCR spoke to its head, Chris Fonteijn, in London at the Office of Fair Trading.
Flavio Laina, head of the cartel settlement unit at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition, Marc Hansen, partner at Latham & Watkins and Gerwin Van Gerven, partner at Linklaters, take an in-depth look at the EU cartel settlements system. By David Vascott
Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has been a capable agency for some time, but has struggled to promote the importance of competition law among both the public and the business community. With significant changes to the competition agenda on the way, that looks set to change, writes Faaez Samadi
Despite the low profile of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission on the international stage, there’s enough competition work around to keep a handful of firms busy. Faaez Samadi meets the teams handling the leading cases
Details on forthcoming features and projects.
Trevor Soames of Shearman & Sterling is chair of the GCR Live: IP & Antitrust conference in Brussels. He talks to GCR about the main IP issues and complexities in the high-tech antitrust sector.
Observers in India say the country's merger control regime is up and running at a good clip. But some apparent flaws remain – including how the Competition Commission handles the acquisition of smaller assets that may fall well below the country’s merger control thresholds. Arshad (Paku) Khan, the executive director of Khaitan & Co, explores the issue.
Joseph Wayland is credited by many as reversing the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division’s fortunes in civil litigation. Hired to head the civil enforcement division in 2010 and appointed as acting assistant attorney general in 2012, Wayland led the division’s first successful litigated merger challenge in nearly a decade in H&R Block, and its subsequent challenge of AT&T/T-Mobile, which ended with the parties abandoning the deal. Katy Oglethorpe talks to him about his courtroom successes, the future of merger enforcement at the department, and life since returning to his former firm, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett last year
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