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• Patent transactions increasingly involve antitrust issues

  May 08 2012 Patent transactions of increasing value are attracting the attention of antitrust regulators, necessitating the use of antitrust experts in a field that previously had... more

• Ropes & Gray applies for entry into South Korea

  Mar 08 2012 US firm Ropes & Gray is the latest international firms to announce plans to open an office in Seoul, after a free trade deal between the US and South Korea opened the... more

• US Justice Department boosts antitrust litigation team

  Nov 26 2011 The Justice Department has hired star litigator Glenn Pomerantz to bolster its trial team for the antitrust case against AT&T’s $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA.... more

• WilmerHale hires star Antitrust lawyer Molly Boast

  Oct 21 2011 WilmerHale has boosted its New York antitrust and competition practice with the hire of Molly Boast, the former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice... more

• Former Howrey head joins Winston & Strawn as an equity partner

  Sep 14 2011 Winston & Strawn has taken on former head of defunct firm Howrey, Robert Ruyak as an equity partner in the Washington DC office. Ruyak brings expertise in intellectual... more

• Davis Polk boosts DC antitrust practice with hire from Federal Trade Commission

  Aug 19 2011 Davis Polk & Wardwell has bolstered its Washington DC antitrust practice with the hire of Howard A. Shelanski. Shelanski has a wealth of regulatory experience, joining... more

• Cravath scores with hire of top competition regulator

  Jul 07 2011 The US governement’s top competition regulator Christine Varney is stepping down from her role at the Justice Department to become a partner at the New York law firm... more

• Webb Henderson to Launch in London

  May 11 2011 International boutique law firm Webb Henderson is set to launch an office in London with the hire of Gordon Moir, the former general counsel of British Telecom (BT)... more

• Ashurst makes up 12 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 15 2011 Ashurst has promoted 12 lawyers to its partnership, up from 11 last year. The corporate practice saw the most promotions in this round, with five new partners. Two... more

• Kirkland & Ellis boosts Washington M&A practice with four hires

  Mar 29 2011 Kirkland & Ellis has boosted its M&A practice with the hire of former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Tim Muris, along with three other prominent antitrust lawyers.... more

• Howrey partners jump ship

  Mar 16 2011 Howrey lawyers are leaping to other firms after the firm announced its imminent dissolution. Construction litigation partners David Mancini and James Newland Jr are... more

• 17-lawyer antitrust team leaves Howrey for Shearman & Sterling

  Feb 24 2011 A 17-lawyer antitrust group from the Brussels office of Howrey is departing for Shearman & Sterling. The group is led by five partners, including the current and... more

• Amarchand and Luthra kick-start the new year with accolades

  Jan 25 2011 Amarchand and Luthra have been on an award winning spree, beginning 2011 with Amarchand winning the Indian Business Law Journal’s 2010 Law firm of the year award and... more

• Registration Started - 7th Summer School on European Business Law

  Jan 18 2011 Be a Part… The 7th Summer School on European Business Law at the Center for Business and Corporate Law at Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf will take place from... more

• Competition Commission of India granted new powers to impose penalties

  Nov 23 2010 Samir Gandhi (SG): The Competition Act gives the Competition Commission of India (CCI) wide-ranging powers to impose penalties and under Section 43 of the Act, the CCI... more

• Amarchand Mangaldas Conference: Global perspectives on competition law and policy

  Nov 23 2010 Amarchand along with University College London (UCL) joined hands and held a Global Competition Law conference on 19th November at the Taj in New Delhi, discussing the... more

• Howrey lays off 32 support staff across US offices

  Nov 11 2010 Howrey has laid off 32 support staff across ten US offices. The firm cited a need to adjust the size of its workforce to meet client needs and focus on core practice... more

• Clifford Chance appoints new leadership for global competition group

  Oct 22 2010 Clifford Chance has appointed new leadership of its global competition group, with Oliver Bretz to become managing partner of the global practice while Thomas Vinje... more

• Grant & Eisenhofer boost NY antitrust practice

  Sep 02 2010 Top securities and corporate governance law firm Grant & Eisenhofer, has bolstered its New York antitrust practice with the appointment of Linda P. Nussbaum as a... more

• Milbank hires partner from SJ Berwin to launch EU antitrust practice

  May 19 2010 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has secured the services of Alexander Rinne, former German head of EU and competition at SJ Berwin. Rinne is set to launch Milbank’s new... more

• Debevoise, Jones Day, and Cleary lead $1.2 bn car rental merger

  Apr 27 2010 Hertz Global Holdings has announced the imminent acquisition of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group in a major strategic merger in the US car-rental industry. The $1.2... more

• Four firms guide biggest telecom deal in two years

  Apr 22 2010 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Jones Walker have taken key roles on the $10.6 billion... more

• Hughes Hubbard antitrust partner Robert Reznick joins Orrick

  Jan 08 2010 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced that Robert P. Reznick has joined the firm's Washington, D.C. office as a partner in its antitrust and competition... more

• Shearman & Sterling rebuilds Brussels office with German team

  Sep 23 2009 Shearman & Sterling has relocated a four-lawyer team from Düsseldorf -- partner Hans Meyer-Lindemann and three associates -- to Brussels in a bid to rebuild its... more

• Shearman hit by departure of Brussels partners Schild and Cappellari

  Aug 28 2009 Shearman & Sterling has been hit by the defection of two Brussels antitrust partners, Annette Schild and Silvio Cappellari, to US rival Arnold & Porter. After the... more

• Jones Day adds Mayer Brown's London antitrust head Murphy

  Aug 26 2009 Jones Day has made its second lateral hire in the City this year with the recruitment of antitrust lawyer Frances Murphy who headed Mayer Brown's London antitrust team... more

• Allen & Overy's US antitrust head Michael Jahnke joins Howrey

  Aug 06 2009 Jahnke joins Howrey's New York office as a partner in its antitrust practice after seven years at Allen & Overy's US office. more

• Greenberg Traurig expands antitrust litigation practice in NYC

  Jul 17 2009 Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired antitrust litigation expert Scott Martin, former partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Scott will join Greenberg Traurig's New York... more

• Participation by Continental in Star Alliance to be reviewed by European Commission

  Apr 19 2009 Continental Airlines' plan to coordinate flights with airlines belonging to the group known as Star Alliance will be reviewed by the European Commission. The airline... more

• Antitrust suit against US firm Fragomen dismissed

  Apr 02 2009 A judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed an antitrust action against major immigration firm Fragomen brought by a... more

• Block on Coca-Cola's Huiyuan Juice bid sparks fears over Chinese M&A

  Mar 19 2009 Beijing's decision to block Coca-Cola's $2.4bn takeover of China's leading juice maker Huiyuan Juice has caused a wave of domestic support. In a poll by a Chinese... more

• Orrick, Dechert reach settlement in Whole Foods antitrust case

  Mar 09 2009 Whole Foods' battle against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finally over. In 2007 the FTC lawyers tried to prevent the merger of Whole Foods and Wild Oats by... more

• White & Case Paris duo forms antitrust boutique

  Jan 19 2009 Two White & Case lawyers, Sylvain Justier and Vincent Jaunet, have left the firm’s Paris office to establish their own boutique. The new boutique called Magenta... more

• Clifford Chance hires senior FTC lawyer William Blumenthal

  Jan 06 2009 Clifford Chance has hired William Blumenthal, a former senior lawyer at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to head its US Antitrust group. As general counsel of... more

• Chinese lawyer puts Microsoft in the hot seat

  Aug 27 2008 Dong Zhengwei, a partner with Beijing-based Zhongyin law firm, has attracted the attention of multinational corporate executives and the legal community alike. One... more

• Antitrust rules in Asia stir law firms

  Jul 25 2008 Global law firms are scrambling to strengthen their pan-Asian competition practices. Law firms expect a sharp rise in requests from multi-national corporations eager... more

• China's Merger Proposal Draws Fire

  Apr 21 2008 On Sunday, the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law fired off a litany of complaints to China's State Council Legislative Affairs Office, which is... more

• Clifford Chance loses antitrust head to Paul Hastings

  Mar 31 2008 Clifford Chance has seen the head of its US regulatory antitrust practice, James Holden, exit for the Washington DC office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker.... more

• Baker & McKenzie Establishes Tokyo Antitrust Group

  Jan 27 2008 Baker & McKenzie has formed an antitrust practice group in Tokyo made up of attorneys in its office there, building on the firm's worldwide antitrust services. The... more

• Opera files antitrust complaint with the EU

  Dec 14 2007 The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering... more