Philip Collins was appointed chairman of the Office of Fair Trading on 1 October 2005. In his professional career as a lawyer his practice increasingly focused on competition and European law and he established this as a specialist practice area at Lovell, White & King in London on becoming a Partner in 1978. He spent the next fifteen years based in London advising clients worldwide on UK and European competition issues as well as European law. From 1993, he was based in Brussels where he developed a broad practice in advisory, contentious and transactional competition work. On leaving Lovells he became Senior Counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP in Brussels. Over the past five years as Chairman of the OFT, he has focused on the development of the Board and senior management structure of the organisation and on a significant number of strategic and policy issues which affect the work of the Office. After qualifying from University with a Law degree, he took leave of absence to take a postgraduate degree at St. John’s College, Oxford, which encouraged his interest in competition law.
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Le présent dossier regroupe les communications présentées lors de la première table ronde de la Journée de la concurrence belge à Bruxelles le 21 octobre 2010. M. Ost souligne la complémentarité entre la mise en oeuvre publique et privée du droit de la concurrence. Il souligne que le « private (...)
