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Louise Åberg

UK Competition & Markets Authority - CMA (London)

Assistant Legal Director

Louise Aberg is an assistant legal director at the UK Competition and Markets Authority. She previously was an associate in the Paris and Washington, D.C. offices of McDermott Will & Emery for 9 years where she worked on a broad range of French, EU, and U.S. competition law cases. Prior to joining McDermott, Louise-Astrid was an intern at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission in the cartels department.

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29 nov. 2022 Bruxelles Mergers : How to assess market future evolutions ? Voir la documentation

27 juin 2018 Brussels Theories Of Harm around Data : Do we have any yet ? Voir la documentation

3 mai 2016 Paris Relations entre JV et sociétés mères - Contrôle des concentrations et droit des ententes ? Voir la documentation

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Louise Åberg (McDermott Will & Emery) — Louise Åberg 27 juin 2018 Brussels

Articles

2244 Bulletin

Louise Åberg, Gregory E. Heltzer The US FTC conditionally clears the transaction between two neurosurgical companies (Integra / Johnson & Johnson)

25 septembre 2017 87

What Happened : On February 14, 2017, Integra agreed to purchase Johnson & Johnson’s Codman neurosurgery business (excluding Codman’s neurovascular and drug deliver businesses) for $1.045 billion. Seven months later, on September 25, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreed to clear (...)

Aymeric Discours, Lionel Lesur, Louise Åberg The French administration implements the EU Directive 2014/104 on antitrust damages actions (Decree n° 2017-305)

10 mars 2017 356

On 10 March 2017, France finally implemented into French law the EU Directive 2014/104 of 26 November 2014 on antitrust damages actions (see our Special Report) through Order n° 2017-303 and its implementing Decree n° 2017-305 of 9 March 2017. France was more than two months late, but there (...)

Louise Åberg The EU Court of Justice confirms that the Commission has a considerable margin of discretion to revise a proposed fine upwards concerning companies that have withdrawn from a settlement procedure (Timab Industries)

12 janvier 2017 123

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Confirms the Commission’s Approach to Hybrid Settlements* The case follows on from the Commission’s Animal Feed Phosphates cartel decision pursuant to which fines totalling €176 million were imposed on a number of producers of animal feed for (...)

Louise Åberg, Lionel Lesur The French Competition Authority imposes landmark sanctions on telecommunication companies for gun jumping (Alice & SFR / OTL)

8 novembre 2016 103

FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY IMPOSES ITS FIRST EVER FINE FOR GUN-JUMPING* For the first time ever, on 8 November 2016 the French Competition Authority (FCA) sanctioned companies for implementing a transaction that had been notified to the FCA but not yet received a clearance decision, (...)

Louise Åberg The EU General Court confirms fines imposed on an undertaking and generic drug manufacturers for entering into anticompetitive pay-for-delay agreements (Lundbeck)

8 septembre 2016 124

GENERAL COURT OF THE EU CONFIRMS FINES IMPOSED ON LUNDBECK AND GENERIC DRUG MANUFACTURERS FOR ENTERING INTO PATENT SETTLEMENTS* On 8 September 2016, the General Court of the EU (GCEU) handed down five judgments upholding a decision by the Commission of 19 June 2013 imposing fines on (...)

Louise Åberg The EU General Court dismisses an undertaking’s application seeking the reimbursement of interests paid for being late in paying a cartel fine due to its involvement in the industrial bags cartel (Trioplast)

12 mai 2016 68

GENERAL COURT OF THE EU DISMISSES TRIOPLAST APPLICATION SEEKING REIMBURSEMENT OF INTEREST PAID FOR BEING LATE IN PAYING CARTEL FINE* With a judgment handed down on 12 May 2016 (Case T-669/14, Trioplast Industrier AB v. European Commission), the General Court of the European Union (GCEU) (...)

Mai Muto, Louise Åberg, Stefan M. Meisner, Christian Krohs The German Regional Court of Berlin refers to questions on extradition discrimination to the EU Court of Justice in the case of the first business executive extradited to the USA on cartel charges (Romano Pisciotti)

18 mars 2016 90

CJEU TO RULE ON EXTRADITION OF EU CITIZENS IN CRIMINAL ANTITRUST PROCEEDINGS The first European citizen to be extradited from Europe to the United States for criminal antitrust conduct recently succeeded in having a Berlin court refer the matter of his extradition to the Court of Justice of (...)

Louise Åberg The EU Court of Justice requires the Commission to provide adequate reasons for its requests for information from cement manufacturers during the course of a cartel investigation (Cement Case)

10 mars 2016 86

THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE REQUIRES THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE REASONS FOR ITS REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION* On March 10, 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered its judgment in the so-called Cement case, (C-247/14 P HeidelbergCement v Commission, (...)

Louise Åberg The EU General Court upholds a €131 million fine imposed by the Commission on two undertakings for participating in a cartel in the gas insulated switchgear market (GIS cartel)

19 janvier 2016 95

THE GENERAL COURT OF THE EU UPHOLDS CARTEL FINES OF €131M IMPOSED ON TOSHIBA AND MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC, DISMISSES ARGUMENTS BASED ON PRINCIPLE OF EQUAL TREATMENT* By two judgments of January 19, 2016 (Case T-404/12 Toshiba v. Commission and Case T-409/12 Mitsubishi Electric v. Commission), the (...)

Lionel Lesur, Louise Åberg, Philipp Werner The French Supreme Court rules on automotive quantitative selective distribution agreements (Auto 24/ Jaguar Land Rover)

15 janvier 2013 572

The Cour de cassation, France’s highest court for judicial matters, rendered a judgment on 15 January 2013 in a case involving Jaguar’s distribution agreements in France. The judgment follows an earlier ruling on the matter by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), from which the (...)

Lionel Lesur, Louise Åberg, Philipp Werner The EU Court of Justice rules that the Commission can bring follow-on actions for damages on behalf of the EU in cartel cases (Otis)

6 novembre 2012 326

EU Commission Can Bring Follow-On Actions for Damages on Behalf of the European Union in Cartel Cases* On 6 November 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the European Commission was entitled to represent the European Union in an action for damages before (...)

Louise Åberg, Lionel Lesur The French Competition Authority publishes its final version of the framework document on compliance programs and of its notice relating to settlements

10 février 2012 89

FCA’S NEW POLICY PROVIDES STRONG INCENTIVES FOR COMPLIANCE PROGRAM ADOPTION Following up on our prior post, on February 10, 2012, the French Competition Authority (FCA) published the final version of its framework document on compliance programs and of its Notice relating to settlements. (...)

Lionel Lesur, Louise Åberg The French Competition Authority launches a two-month public consultation for guidelines on settlement and compliance programs

14 octobre 2011 25

PUBIC CONSULTATION ON SETTLEMENT AND COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS LAUNCHED BY THE FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY* On October 14, the French Competition Authority (FCA) launched a two-month public consultation for guidelines on settlement and compliance programs. Both these guidelines have been highly (...)

Lionel Lesur, Louise Åberg The French Competition Authority withdraws its authorisation of an undertaking’s purchase of rival commercial television company in the TV market and imposes a €30 m fine for failing to fulfill the 59 remedies imposed by the Authority (Canal Plus / TPS)

20 septembre 2011 50

WITHDRAWAL OF CLEARANCE DECISION AND EUR 30 MILLION FINE AGAINST CANAL PLUS FOR UNFULFILLED MERGER CLEARANCE COMMITMENTS* The French Competition Authority has taken a hard stance by withdrawing its authorization of French broadcaster Canal Plus’ purchase of rival commercial television (...)

Lionel Lesur, Louise Åberg The French Commercial Court of Paris orders the French Competition Authority to disclose documents in its file regarding an antitrust investigation on private damages (Sas Ma Liste De Courses / Societe Highco / Societe Highco Data / Societe Sogec Gestion / Societe Sogec Marketing)

24 août 2011 50

FRENCH COURT ORDERS FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY TO DISCLOSE ANTITRUST INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTS* The Commercial Court in Paris has once again ordered the French Competition Authority (the Autorité de la concurrence, the "FCA") to disclose documents in its file regarding an antitrust (...)

1648 Revue

Louise Åberg United Kingdom : The CMA post-Brexit

novembre 2021 978

Presque un an après la fin de la période de transition du Brexit, la CMA peut commencer à prendre la mesure de ses progrès jusqu’à ce jour. La CMA a avancé sur plusieurs fronts et a continué d’assurer sa fonction sans heurt malgré la pandémie. L’organisation se tourne à présent vers l’avenir (...)

Douglas H. Ginsburg, Jacques Buhart, Joshua Hazan, Laurence Idot, Louise Åberg Is territoriality still meaningful ? (Demain la concurrence, Paris, 13 Juin 2016)

septembre 2016 670

Cette table ronde est consacrée à la question du champ d’application géographique des règles de concurrence et plus particulièrement du droit antitrust. En application des principes du droit international public, le principe de territorialité doit être respecté pour la détermination tant de la (...)