Jessica Walch-Barton is an Antitrust counsel at PETRONAS. She advises on all matters revolving around antitrust issues and foreign direct investment requirements which impact either of the operational and strategic levels of the organisation. She has over 15 years of experience in Competition law and Business, and was exposed in the past to multiple working environments in French, US and UK law firms, respectively in Paris/Aix-en-Provence, Boston and Brussels. She is a retired member of both the NY Bar and the Paris Bar. She also served as a trainee with the Antitrust Unit focusing on the Pharmaceutical industry at the Competition Directorate of the European Commission. During her studies at the University of California, Berkeley, she was a research assistant for Professor Howard A. Shelanski and she also worked as a research fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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1. Introduction This invaluable e-Competitions special issue on sports brings together more than 60 case summaries arising from the different EU Member States over the last five years. Practitioners and others with an interest in the interface between sports and competition law are only (...)
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In these difficult economic times, companies caught up in EU competition enforcement proceedings now regularly claim that the imposition of heavy fines could put them out of business. “Inability to pay” (ITP) arguments have therefore become regular features of fines assessments and appeals. (...)
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Competition law in ASEAN, has come a long way from its humble beginning and has swiftly grown over the past decade. When referring to competition legislations and policy, one will evidently include all three traditional pillars of enforcement – i.e., anticompetitive agreements, abuses of (...)
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The judgment delivered by the Court of Justice on 4 September 2014 marks the epilogue of a long dispute which we had already commented on when the Court of First Instance delivered its decision at first instance (J. Derenne, Concurrences n° 4-2012). It should be recalled that, by judgment of (...)
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On 21 May 2014, the European Commission adopted a new Communication to regulate and facilitate the granting of state aid for research, development and innovation ("R&D&I") activities. The new Communication is part of the drive to modernise state aid in order to help Member States (...)
2013 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
