Partner Peter Crowther practices in Brussels and London and serves as managing partner of Winston & Strawn’s Brussels office. Peter Crowther has significant experience of trade/sanctions laws, EU merger control, national and international cartels, state aid, free movement, and other general EU and competition law. He also has a long track record of advising broadcasting and telecommunications companies on regulatory matters. A significant part of Peter Crowther’s practice involves defending companies in a wide range of national and international enforcement proceedings, often simultaneously across a range of jurisdictions. He also devises and implements compliance programmes covering areas such as competition, trade/sanctions, bribery, and corruption.
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This article has been nominated for the 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. On 14 June 2011, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down a key judgment regarding the interplay between national leniency programmes and the right of (...)
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The European Commission (Commission) has today announced its first settlement of a cartel case in a so-called "hybrid" scenario, in which all but one company settled the case with the Commission in return for a 10 percent reduction in each of their fines (IP/10/985). The Commission has fined (...)
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The European Commission (Commission) yesterday announced fines imposed on seventeen companies totalling EUR 622 million for a price fixing cartel relating to bathroom equipment (IP/10/790). This is the Commission’s second cartel decision of 2010 and follows the Commission’s first cartel (...)
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On 24 March 2010, the European Commission (Commission) adopted a new Block Exemption Regulation (new BER) for the insurance sector. This exempts certain agreements from the EU-wide ban on anticompetitive practices contained in Article 101 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) (...)
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On 25 September 2007 the European Commission (“Commission”) published its final Report on the effectiveness of competition in commercial insurance in the EU . The Report follows the publication of an interim report at the beginning of 2007, and a substantial two-year investigation during which (...)
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Introduction On 4 July 2006, the U.K. Office of Fair Trading (OFT) referred the completed acquisition of CBS Private Capital Limited’s Lloyd’s members’ agency business (CBSPC) by Hampden Agencies Limited (Hampden) to the Competition Commission (CC) under the U.K. Enterprise Act 2002. After (...)
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