Alec J. Burnside
Dechert (Brussels)
Lawyer (Partner)
Alec Burnside is a Partner in Dechert’s Brussels office. He is a competition law specialist with three decades of experience in advising on major multinational transactions and other antitrust issues. Alec’s wide-ranging sector experience spans consumer products, energy, financial services, IT, manufacturing, military, natural resources, pharmaceuticals, telecoms, and transport and logistics. He has lived in Brussels since 1989. Alec studied at Downing College, Cambridge ; College of Law, London ; and the Institut d’Etudes Européennes, Brussels. He is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and a member of the Brussels Bar, as well as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, London, admitted in French and German. Mr. Burnside leads Dechert’s cross-practice Brexit Task Force, comprising partners from many practice areas and offices. He has been vocal over many years in relation to the particular implications of Brexit for EU and UK antitrust.
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Auteurs associés
Anne Perrot
French General Inspectorate of Finance (Paris)
Johannes Lübking
DG COMP (Brussels)
Anne MacGregor
FTI Consulting (Brussels)
Maurits Dolmans
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (London)
Cecilio Madero Villarejo
DG COMP (Brussels)
Antonio Bavasso
Allen & Overy (London)
Paul Hofer
AMC Economics (London)
Cristina Caffarra
CRA International (London)
20161 | Conférences
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3519 Bulletin
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Key Takeaways Following several individual initiatives by member state competition authorities to temporarily relax competition rules in specific sectors, the European Competition Network (which includes the European Commission and all member state competition authorities) has issued a more (...)
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Key Takeaways In a potentially ground-breaking move, the European Commission recently announced its intention to use its powers to impose interim measures in an investigation targeting chipmaker Broadcom. If it does impose such measures, it would be the first use of these powers in 18 years. (...)
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The EU has agreed in principle on a strengthened framework to ensure that foreign investment does not threaten security and public order, while keeping the EU open to foreign investment. The draft FDI Regulation does not go as far as introducing an EU screening mechanism whose decisions are (...)
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The General Court of the European Union recently held, in Goldman Sachs v. Commission, that purely financial investors such as investment funds may be held jointly and severally liable for competition law violations implemented by their portfolio companies when they can exercise “decisive (...)
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Interim measures are among the most powerful enforcement tools that are available to antitrust regulators in the European Union. Pending the outcome of investigations, which typically run into several years, interim measures can be used to ensure that effective competition is maintained, and irreparable damage that is incapable of being remedied is averted.
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The EU lower court has overturned a 2014 merger clearance by the European Commission (EC) following an appeal by a third party. Overturning the clearance does not mean that the deal is now prohibited. Instead, the case goes back to the EC, and the parties have to re-notify. At best this is (...)
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EU Court Orders New Assessment of Intel’s Rebates The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has quashed a ruling by the EU’s General Court which had upheld the European Commission’s (EC) 2009 finding of abuse of dominance by Intel Corporation Inc. Intel was fined €1.06 billion, a record at (...)
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It is more than three and a half years since EU Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia first publically admitted that, at the European level, when a transaction involves the acquisition of a minority shareholding, there is “probably an enforcement gap” , and announced that he had instructed DG (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. On Friday, April 4, 2014, the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced that, for the first time ever, the DOJ successfully (...)
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Minority shareholdings feature routinely in EU antitrust law. While there is no customised regime specific to them, in most respects they have been satisfactorily accommodated within the general rules. The European Commission’s June 2013 consultation document invited views on the utility of (...)
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Alors que le Oxford English Dictionary définit le « bien-être » comme « la santé, le bonheur et la fortune d’une personne ou d’un groupe », il n’est pas si simple de définir le bien-être du consommateur dans le contexte d’internet. Des changements graduels introduits par des plateformes disposant d’un (...)
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290€00
2020 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU, US and National Leading Cases
The Digest comprises of 41 essays and is structured in two parts : Part I deals with competition rules in general (procedural rules, unilateral practices, mergers...), whereas Part II is (...)
Date
31 janvier 2020
Prix
290€00
