Elisabeth Eklund joined Delphi in 2005. She heads the EU, competition and public procurement law team as well as the life sciences team. Elisabeth Eklund assists in the full range of competition law work, cartels, co-operations with competitors and information exchanges, vertical restraints and abuse of a dominant position. Furthermore, she advises on strategic issues and handle merger filings to the Swedish Competition Authority and the European Commission and coordinate multi-jurisdictional filings. She has assisted in several dawn raids carried out by the Swedish Competition Authority and by the Commission and the consequent investigations and assisted with leniency applications. Elisabeth Eklund also assists with setting-up of compliance programs and acts as counsel in competition law litigations in court and arbitration proceedings regarding abuse of dominance, cartels, illegality and damages and in regulatory proceedings. Besides competition law she also has expertise in state aid, free movement, regulatory (in particular life sciences, telecom, food, FMCG, transports, waste and energy) and anti-corruption issues and has experience from public procurements. Within life science she assists, in addition to competition law, with inter alia issues regarding pricing & reimbursement, advertising issues, healthcare compliance, substitution, clinical trials and CE-marking. Elisabeth Eklund is a frequent publisher of articles and a popular speaker and moderator. She is a guest lecturer in competition law at Stockholm University and also frequently speak at conferences and trainings. She represents Sweden as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, ICN and she is also a vice president of the ICC reference group for Competition. In addition, she is passionate about diversity and leadership issues through WizWomen and Women Leaders in Life Sciences.
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The new Swedish Competition Damages Act* The Swedish implementation of the Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions (the “Directive”) is in force as of 27 December 2016 with the entering into force of the Swedish Competition Damages Act (Sw. Konkurrensskadelag (2016:964)) (the “Act”). The (...)
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Report prepared for the LIDC International Congress, Bordeaux, 30 September - 3 October 2010. The original title of this report was an answer to Question A : "Which, if any, agreements, practices or information exchanges about prices should be prohibited in vertical relationships ?" 1. (...)
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In a judgment of 28 May 2009 the Swedish Market Court (MD 2009:11) found that three of the major asphalt companies in Sweden (NCC, Peab and Skanska) together with a subsidiary of the Swedish Road Administration, Vägverket, had shared markets, agreed on prices and shared information in tenders (...)
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A new Swedish Competition Act entered into force on 1 November 2008. The new legislation means further harmonisation with EC competition rules and it also introduces a number of new features in order to enhance cartel enforcement. One of the new features is the introduction of disqualification (...)
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The aim of this international report* prepared for the LIDC International Congress in Bordeaux (30 September - 3 October 2010) is to examine « which, if any, agreements, practices or information exchanges about prices should be prohibited in vertical relationships ? » The basis for assessment (...)
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La Commission européenne a souligné l’importance du rôle dévolu à l’action privée en matière d’application des règles de concurrence, notamment dans son Livre blanc d’avril 2008*. Mme Neelie Kroes, Commissaire en charge de la politique de concurrence, a indiqué à l’occasion de la publication (...)
