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ISSUE 1 - April / June 2010 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Special feature: Basque in the limelight
Robert McLeod meets Joaquín Almunia the new competition commissioner
Mergers: Sun sets on Oracle buyout saga
Dafydd Nelson reports on Oracle’s buyout of Sun Microsystems – one of the most high-profile European Commission merger reviews in recent years
Energy & climate change: In the hot seats
Peter Koh profiles the key members of the European Parliament’s industry committee preparing toflex new-found influence in climate change policies
Special feature –antitrust: Wining and fining
Spain’s regional authorities are struggling against the tide of old-fashioned, anticompetitive practices, writes Mike Elkin
Financial services: In at the deep end
The European Commission is preparing new rules to reshape the stock-trading market. John Rega plunges into dark pools
Trade: Fortress Europe
Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck investigates the debate over transparency in Europe’s trade defences
Telecom, media & IT: The copyright quandary
Content industries such as TV, music and film are being forced to face the full disruptive effect of the internet and digitisation on their respective sectors. Magnus Franklin explores the market and regulatory responses to the challenge
The urge to merge
Anne MacGregor of Baker & McKenzie sheds light on the difficulties facing companies in getting mergers through the antitrust process in Europe download article pdf
Issues and significance beyond US enforcement
Cristina Caffarra and Serge Moresi of Charles River Associates offer their view on the review of horizontal merger guidelines in the US download article pdf
The 2009 French merger control guidelines: what’s new?
Annette Schild of Arnold & Porter looks at the ramifications of new antitrust laws enacted in France and the implications for companies doing business in l’Hexagone download article pdf
What next for EU state aid?
Louise Rowntree, Philipp Brüchert and Robert McGruer of Hill & Knowlton examine the EU state aid regime download article pdf
The new art of macro-prudential supervision
Wendy Reed of PricewaterhouseCoopers takes a detailed view on plans for a new supervisory architecture for banks in Europe, and asks just how effective it can be. download article pdf
Privacy and merger control in the EU
Francisco Enrique González-Díaz of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton offers his take on the relationship between privacy issues and merger analysis, on the back of the Google/DoubleClick merger, which raised concerns over personal data. download article pdf
Cartel liability in the EU: what can parent companies say in their defence?
Steve Spinks and Anouck Meier of Sidley Austin give their insight into how the European Commission establishes parent-company liability for the antitrust misbehaviour of subsidiaries. download article pdf
Pack your bags
Advocatus diaboli: Making the case against aspects of the received wisdom in key issues of the moment
ISSUE 2 - July / September 2010 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Special feature: The fox in charge of the henhouse ?
As Michel Barnier takes charge of regulating financial services, bankers wonder if he’s Nicolas Sarkozy’s man in Brussels, or his own. John Rega asks
Up in the air
Airline alliances, coupled with the need for consolidation in a struggling industry, make it harder for the European Commission to secure the consumer-friendly outcome it strives for when carriers merge. Dafydd Nelson investigates
France's antitrust highwire act
France's antitrust watchdog is pushing competition enforcement into modernity, but change has not come easily. Ana Rita Rego reports
The answer, my friend
Nine European Union member states plan to build a North Sea offshore wind grid, providing reliable, clean energy to millions of households and boosting the bloc’s energy security. Emma Portier Davis explains why theirs is a herculean task
Seeking damages
Lewis Crofts looks at the increasing number of private damages actions brought against antitrust abusers in Germany. While the UK has often been the forum of choice, recent developments have made Germany increasingly attractive
Chomping at the BIT
With the Lisbon Treaty ratified, Europe must tackle the thorny question of how to phase out its members' prized bilateral investment treaties. Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck investigates
Remote control
Amid claims and counter-claims of political meddling and underhand business tactics, Magnus Franklin unravels the story behind Sky Italia's bid to challenge Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset in digital TV
Price and privacy
Alec Burnside of Linklaters responds to an article in our previous issue on privacy and merger control by Francisco Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz download article pdf
Judgment day
Mathew Heim of Qualcomm examines the appointment of Judges to Europe's Supreme Court download article pdf
External affairs
Lawrence Zweifach and Eric Creizman of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher examine the issue of defending corporate executives lactaed outside the United States in investigations and prosecutions by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice download article pdf
A system in transition
Mario Todino of Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners examines recent trends and developments surrounding antitrust enforcement in Italy download article pdf
A question of commitment
Antoni Vassileff of Advolis examines the monitoring of commitments in EC competition cases and the appointment of trustees download article pdf
An opportunity for reform
In light of the Commission's recent publication of best pratices for antitrust proceedings, Rachel Cuff of Berwin Leighton Paisner considers wether guidance on cartel investigations should be re-examined download article pdf
The long and winding road
Benoit Durand and Derek Ridyard or RBB Economics examine the route taken to get to an effects-based approach, focusing on information exchange in the draft guidelines on horizontal agreements. download article pdf
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