Ashley Bass is a partner at Covington & Burling based in the Washington, DC office. Her practice focuses on antitrust issues including litigation, government investigations, counseling matters, and merger analysis with a particular concentration on private antitrust litigation and class actions. Ms. Bass regularly advises clients in some of the most complex antitrust litigations pending in the U.S. and on investigations before numerous government agencies, including the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the European Commission. Her clients span a range of sectors including pharmaceuticals, music and entertainment, shipping, and consumer goods in such cases as In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation, In re Nexium Antitrust Litigation, In re Wellbutrin XL Antitrust Litigation and the freight forwarding matter of Precision Associates, Inc., et al v. Panalpina World Transport (Holding) Ltd., et al.
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The UK has introduced a class action mechanism that could lead to an increase in antitrust litigation. Most significantly, the new mechanism will enable opt-out class actions, which are potentially effective in aggregating individually low value claims, into a single high value, and (...)
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La directive relative aux actions en dommages-intérêts pour violation du droit des pratiques anticoncurrentielles a été publiée le 26 novembre 2014. Les différentes contributions de ce dossier « Tendances » reviennent sur les difficultés de transposition auxquelles tous les Etats membres (...)
