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5 Nov 2019

The US DoJ announces the formation of an agency entitled «Procurement Collusion Strike Force»

Francis A. DeSimone, Douglas W. Baruch, Mark L. Krotoski • November 2019

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on November 5 announced the formation of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF). This interagency initiative will “lead a coordinated national response to combat antitrust crimes and related schemes in government procurement, grant, and program funding (...)

5 Nov 2019

The US DoJ launches a "Strike Force" to combat anticompetitive crimes in government procurement

Larissa Bergin, J. Andrew Jackson, Ryan P. Mc Govern, Marc Siegel • November 2019

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") launched the Procurement Collusion Strike Force ("PCSF") to detect, investigate, and prosecute antitrust crimes in government procurement, grant, and program funding, at all levels of government. This interagency partnership includes prosecutors (...)

23 Oct 2019

The Mexican Competition Authority presents criminal complaint against individuals who could have colluded in the sale of goods and services in the health sector

Mexican Competition Authority • October 2019

For the second time, COFECE presents criminal complaint against individuals that could have colluded in the sale of goods and services in the health sector* Mexico City, October 23, 2019.‐ Yesterday, the Federal Economic Competition Commission’s (COFECE or Commission) Investigative Authority (...)

2 sept. 2019

Activité judiciaire : La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne publie son Rapport annuel pour l’année 2018, témoin d’une activité judiciaire toujours très soutenue et précieuse mine d’informations pour les praticiens du droit européen (Rapport annuel 2018)

Michel Debroux • N° 3-2019 • pp. 82-83

La Cour de justice a publié son Rapport annuel pour l’année 2018, lequel se présente, depuis 2015, sous la forme de trois documents : Rapport d’activité, Panorama de l’année et Rapport de gestion. Ces documents partagent tous la même photo de couverture, qui met en avant les tours qui abritent les (...)

1^er sept. 2019

Les inspections de concurrence des autorités françaises, Nathalie JALABERT-DOURY, avant-propos de Laurence IDOT, préface de André MARIE

Thomas Moretto • N° 3-2019 • p. 275

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

11 Jul 2019

The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice announces new policy to consider the existence of effective antitrust compliance programs at the charging stage of criminal antitrust investigations

Jessica K. Delbaum, John Skinner, David A. Higbee, Djordje Petkoski, John Cove • July 2019

The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (Division) finally will consider the existence of effective antitrust compliance programs at the charging stage of criminal antitrust investigations, opening up the possibility that cartel participants could avoid prosecution even if they (...)

11 Jul 2019

The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announces new policy aimed at incentivizing corporate compliance

Robert E. Connolly • July 2019

Some Early Thoughts On the Division’s New Policy On Corporate Compliance Programs (From a Guy Who Was Admittedly Against This When He Was With the Division)* There has been a great deal of publicity surrounding the Antitrust Division’s recent announcement that a corporation involved in a (...)

11 Jul 2019

The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice announces criminal enforcement policy boosts value of antitrust compliance programs

Marc Siegel, Peter Julian • July 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") recently announced significant revisions to its criminal enforcement policies regarding the value it places on a company’s pre-existing antitrust compliance program. Longstanding DOJ policy denied credit to companies at the charging stage (...)

27 Jun 2019

The French Parquet National Financier and the Anti-Corruption Agency publish procedural guidelines on the steps that need to be taken by companies that wish to enter into deferred prosecution agreements

Karen Coppens, Timothy Bowden, Roger A. Burlingame, Laurent Martinet, Jacques Sivignon • June 2019

Navigating French Internal Investigations and Self-Reporting - French Authorities Issue New Guidance* France is off to a strong start enforcing Sapin II, its December 2016 anti-corruption legislation. Since the enactment of the statute, the lead French investigating and prosecuting agencies, (...)

15 mai 2019

Enquêtes de concurrence 2019

Irène Luc, André Marie, Nathalie Jalabert-Doury, Laurence Idot, Aymeric de Moncuit, Dominique Blanc, Fabienne Siredey-Garnier, Isabelle Jamnet, Hugues Calvet, Philippe Guibert

4ème conférence annuelle "Enquêtes concurrence" organisée par Concurrences avec le cabinet Mayer Brown.

10 May 2019

The Irish Competition Authority uses criminal sanctions against companies for gun jumping (Armalou / Airfield)

Helen Kelly, Aine Mariga, Ronan Scanlan • May 2019

Summary In this case update, we discuss a 2019 criminal enforcement case in Ireland brought by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (the “CCPC”) in conjunction with the Director of Public Prosecutions (the “DPP”), in relation to breaches of procedural merger control law under the (...)

1 May 2019

Antitrust in the Financial Sector: Hot Issues & Global Perspectives

Richard S. Taffet, James A. Keyte, Makan Delrahim, Rainer Schwabe, Nicole Kar, Elai Katz, Graeme Brooks, Scott Hemphill, Michael Cragg, Phillip Gillespie, Jon R. Roellke, Jonathan R. Lutinski, Dean Hoffman, Scott Tucker

Annual Concurrences + Morgan Lewis conference with the support of The Brattle Group, Cornerstone Research, and Linklaters.

1^er mai 2019

Une repénalisation du droit de la concurrence en France ? À propos de l’utilisation de l’article 40 du code de procédure pénale par les services d’instruction de l’Autorité

Robert Saint-Esteben • N° 2-2019 • pp. 54-65

Le rapporteur général de l’Autorité de la concurrence entend utiliser la saisine du parquet par la voie de l’art. 40 du code de procédure pénale pour accroître l’efficacité de l’activité de l’Autorité, en bénéficiant notamment des moyens d’investigation plus étendus de la procédure pénale. Cependant, la (...)

1 May 2019

Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law. The Impact of the Damages Directive, Pier Luigi PARCU, Giorgio MONTI and Marco BOTTA

Nathalie Flandin • N° 2-2019 • pp. 263-264

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

1 May 2019

South Africa: Competition Amendment Act - A risk or a boon for South Africa’s economy?

Julie Tirtiaux • N° 2-2019 • pp. 214-222

The South African Competition Amendment Act introduces significant changes to redress excessive concentration of ownership and promote the participation of small and medium businesses, and firms controlled by historically disadvantaged persons. The objective of creating a more inclusive economy (...)

15 Apr 2019

The Estonian Competition Authority opens criminal proceedings for investigate a possible restriction of competition in the agricultural equipment market

Estonian Competition Authority • April 2019

Authority conducts criminal proceedings for investigating a possible restriction of competition in companies selling agricultural equipment* In the framework of a criminal case concerning a possible restriction of competition, the Competition Authority carried out searches at the premises of (...)

8 Apr 2019

The Dublin District Court imposes a small charitable donation as punishment on a motor company which pled guilty to gun jumping (Armalou Holdings)

Sinead McGarrigle, Philip Andrews • April 2019

A small charitable donation for gun-jumping* After an 18 month investigation involving officials from both the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (“CCPC”) and Ireland’s Director of Public Prosecution, and a first-ever criminal prosecution, a company that gun-jumped Irish merger (...)

29 Mar 2019

The Delhi High Court interprets national Competition Act which criminalises non-compliance with directions or orders (Rajasthan Cylinders)

Pallavi Shroff, Shweta Shroff Chopra, John Handoll, Naval Satarawala Chopra, Harman Singh Sandhu, Manika Brar, Aparna Mehra, Gauri Chhabra, Yaman Verma, Rohan Arora • March 2019

In March 2019, the Delhi High Court interpreted Section 42(3) of the Competition Act, which criminalises non-compliance with orders or directions, to cover directions issued by the Director General (DG). [1] The High Court also rejected arguments that to allow criminal proceedings under (...)

6 Mar 2019

The Jerusalem District Court sentences to imprisonment a member of a tree-pruning cartel following a joint investigation of the Competition Authority and the National Fraud Investigations Unit (Zohar Katz)

Israel Antitrust Authority • March 2019

The Jerusalem District Court sentenced a member of the tree-pruning cartel to 11 months’ imprisonment* The Jerusalem District Court (Judge A. Rubin) sentenced today (Wed.) the defendant Zohar Katz to 11 months’ imprisonment, a fine of NIS 100,000 and forfeiture of an additional sum of NIS (...)

25 févr. 2019

Délais de paiement : La Cour administrative d’appel de Marseille inaugure le contentieux juridictionnel administratif des relations commerciales (Airbus Helicopters)

Frédéric Buy • N° 2-2019 • pp. 100-101

Voici venu le temps du contentieux juridictionnel administratif des relations commerciales. Après l’introduction, par la loi Hamon du 17 mars 2014, de la peine d’amende administrative pour sanctionner la violation de toute une série de dispositions du titre IV du livre IV C. com., le juge (...)

25 janv. 2019

États-Unis : La Cour d’appel du neuvième circuit rejette une demande contestant l’utilisation de la règle per se dans une affaire antitrust criminelle (Javier Sanchez)

Walid Chaiehloudj • N° 2-2019 • pp. 206-208

Inexistant à l’échelle de l’Union européenne, très faiblement utilisé à l’échelle française, le droit pénal de la concurrence (criminal antitrust) paraît boudé sur le vieux continent. Ce n’est pas le cas aux États-Unis. Outre-Atlantique, il bénéficie tout au contraire d’un rayonnement remarquable. Les (...)

11 Jan 2019

The City Court of Hillerød fines two members of the management of a now dissolved demolition company for bid rigging

Danish Competition Authority • January 2019

Denmark: Two members of the management in now dissolved demolition company fined DKK 300.000 each in bid rigging case* The City Court of Hillerød has fined two members of the management in a now dissolved demolition company for infringing the Danish Competition Act by bid rigging. The City (...)

19 déc. 2018

QPC : La Cour de cassation refuse de transmettre une question prioritaire de constitutionnalité au Conseil constitutionnel et estime que tant l’article L. 420-2 C. com. que l’article L. 420-6 du même code ne méconnaissent pas le principe de légalité des délits et des peines (M. X e.a.)

Christophe Lemaire, Hélène Fricaudet • N° 1-2019 • pp. 174-176

L’article L. 420-6 C. com. inquiète depuis longtemps (voir Cl. Lucas de Leyssac, L’inquiétant article L. 420-6 C. com., in La sanction des pratiques anticoncurrentielles par recours à l’article L. 420-6 C. com., 5e journée Christian Gavalda, Concurrences n° 1-2008, p. 21). Le récent arrêt de la Cour de (...)

14 déc. 2018

Revente de titres : Le Conseil constitutionnel considère que l’article 313-6-2 du C. pén. qui limite l’activité de revente de titres d’accès à une manifestation sportive, culturelle ou commerciale, est conforme à la Constitution (Viagogo Entertainment)

Jeremy Martinez • N° 2-2019 • pp. 191-192

La société requérante exerce une activité de revente de billets concernant des évènements culturels, sportifs, et commerciaux. Dans le cadre général de l’organisation du championnat européen de football en 2016 (Euro 2016), la société Viagogo avait procédé à la revente de billets sans l’autorisation de (...)

6 Dec 2018

Investigations & settlements: Effectiveness and rights of defence before the Competition Authority

Antoine Chapsal, Marie-Cecile Rameau, Stanislas Martin, Yelena Trifounovitch

Dinner organised by Concurrences Review with keynote speaker Stanislas Martin (Autorité de la concurrence) in partnership with Bredin Prat and Analysis Group.

28 Nov 2018

The future of cartels: Classes, claims and criminals

Bill Batchelor, Bruce Macaulay, Deborah Wilkie, Jon Turner, Oliver Latham

Workshop organised by Concurrences Review with Deborah Wilkie (CMA), in partnership with Skadden and CRA.

1^er nov. 2018

Les droits de l’homme à la croisée des droits. Mélanges en l’honneur du professeur Frédéric Sudre

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 4-2018 • p. 247

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

24 oct. 2018

Non-cumul : La Cour de cassation juge qu’un même demandeur peut à la fois se prévaloir d’un manquement à une obligation contractuelle et de la rupture brutale d’une relation commerciale établie (CRG / ADF)

Mary-Claude Mitchell • N° 1-2019 • pp. 112-113

Quelle est la nature, contractuelle ou délictuelle, de l’action en rupture brutale d’une relation commerciale établie et le fait d’exercer une action de nature contractuelle interdit-il au demandeur de se prévaloir de la rupture brutale d’une relation commerciale établie ? Telles sont les deux (...)

27 Sep 2018

The Competition Bureau and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada launch revised immunity and leniency programs

Chris Hersh, Michael Osborne, Tegan O’Brien • September 2018

It used to be the best deal in town: participants in criminal price-fixing conspiracies could approach the Competition Bureau and receive either complete immunity or leniency in exchange for ratting out their co-conspirators. The Bureau and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) still (...)

27 Sep 2018

The Competition Bureau and the Public prosecution service of Canada revise immunity and leniency programs

Danny Urquhart • September 2018

Competition Bureau’s new “disclosure first” immunity and leniency programs take effect* Antitrust and competition On September 27 the Competition Bureau (the Bureau) and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) launchedrevised immunity and leniency programs in relation to investigating (...)

20 Jun 2018

The Irish Court of Criminal Appeal increases a fine imposed on a former director for bid-rigging tenders (Aston Carpets & Flooring)

Irish Competition Authority • June 2018

Former director fined €45,000 for bid-rigging tenders* The Court of Criminal Appeal today increased a fine handed down to a former director, Brendan Smith, for engaging in bid-rigging in the procurement of flooring contracts. Mr Smith, who is a former director of Aston Carpets & Flooring, (...)

20 Jun 2018

The Irish Court of Appeal increases criminal fine imposed on an individual director/manager for bid rigging (Aston Carpets & Flooring)

Mary Catherine Lucey • June 2018

On June 20th 2018, the Irish Court of Appeal, reviewed the sentences imposed by the Central Criminal Court in 2017 on firstly, a company (Aston) and, secondly, an individual (Mr Smith) who was a director and manager of the company following their criminal convictions for having engaged in (...)

20 Jun 2018

The Irish Court of Appeal increases the fine imposed by the Irish Competition Authority on a company for bid-rigging (Aston Carpets)

Helen Kelly, Aine Mariga, Ronan Scanlan • June 2018

Summary In this case update, we discuss a 2019 criminal enforcement case in Ireland brought by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (the “CCPC”) in conjunction with the Director of Public Prosecutions (the “DPP”), in relation to breaches of substantive competition law under the (...)

20 Jun 2018

The Irish Court of Appeal increases the fine imposed by the Central Criminel Court in its first bid rigging criminal cartel case (Aston Carpets & Flooring)

Paul Gorecki • June 2018

SENTENCING IN CRIMINAL BIG RIGGING IN IRELAND: THE COMMERCIAL FLOORING CARTEL* I. Introduction 1. On 20 June 2018 the Court of Appeal (the Court) in Ireland’s first bid rigging criminal cartel case increased the fine imposed by the Central Criminal Court (CCC) on Brendan Smith (Smith) from (...)

16 May 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice indicts the CEO of a seafood company on price fixing charges (Bumble Bee Foods LLC)

Benjamin Craven, Eric P. Enson, John M. Majoras, Julia McEvoy • May 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Bumble Bee Foods CEO Christopher Lischewski on price-fixing charges. Lischewski is the first CEO to be charged for his role in the alleged U.S. conspiracy to fix the price of packaged seafood. The Northern District of California grand jury indictment (...)

13 avr. 2018

Les enquêtes de concurrence 2018

André Marie, Anthony Michael Collins, Gabriel Lluch, Irène Luc, Ludovic Bernardeau, Nathalie Jalabert-Doury, Sophie Bresny, Stanislas Martin, Thomas Sely

Conférence annuelle de la Revue Concurrences organisée avec le soutien de Mayer Brown et FTI Consulting.

10 Apr 2018

The UK Competition and Markets Authority disqualifies two company directors for their roles in price fixing cartel (Abbott / Frost)

Oyebola Ajayi • April 2018

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (the ’CMA’) has secured the disqualification of two directors following an investigation into a cartel agreement by six estate agencies in the Burnham-on-Sea area to fix the minimum level of commission fees for the provision of traditional residential (...)

1 Mar 2018

Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench The Effect of Optimal Penalties for Organizations Convicted of Price Fixing in the Presence of Criminal Sanctions for Individuals

Bruce Kobayashi

333 Douglas H. Ginsburg | An Antitrust Professor on the BenchLiber Amicorum - Volume I The Effect of Optimal Penalties for Organizations Convicted of Price Fixing in the Presence of Criminal Sanctions for Individuals m iChEllE m. b urtis CRA International bruCE h. k obayashi * George Mason (...)

1 Mar 2018

Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench Re-Designing the American Antitrust Machine Part I: Treble Damages, Contribution and Claim Reduction

John DeQ. Briggs

357 Douglas H. Ginsburg | An Antitrust Professor on the BenchLiber Amicorum - Volume I Re-Designing the American Antitrust Machine Part I: Treble Damages, Contribution and Claim Reduction John d EQ. b riggs * Axinn Abstract This is the first in a contemplated series of articles, and eventually (...)

1 Mar 2018

Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench Rebuilding the Argentine Antitrust House While Living in It: A View from the Trenches

Pablo Trevisán

561 Douglas H. Ginsburg | An Antitrust Professor on the BenchLiber Amicorum - Volume I Rebuilding the Argentine Antitrust House While Living in It: A View from the Trenches pablo t rEvisán *1 Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia “In order to fulfill their role effectively these (...)

29 Jan 2018

The Cairo Economic Court upholds the recommendation of the Egyptian Competition Agency and fines a TV broadcasting company 400M EGP for abusive bundling of international football events (Nasser Al-Khulaifi / beIN Media)

David Stallibrass • January 2018

On 29th January 2018 the Cairo Economic Court found that beIN had abused its position in the market for broadcasting of international football events by forcing the bundled subscription of all the soccer leagues and events in its stable for a minimum duration of 12 months. The decision by the (...)

20 Dec 2017

The EU Court of Justice confirms that the absence of self-certification is a discretionary exclusion ground in public procurement sector (Impresa di Costruzioni Ing. E. Mantovani / RTI Mantovani e Guerrato)

Albert Sánchez Graells • December 2017

ECJ confirms discretion to exclude tenderers for not updating self-certifications and points towards potential general obligation of sincere cooperation (C-178/16)* In its Judgment of 20 December 2017 in Impresa di Costruzioni Ing. E. Mantovani and RTI Mantovani e Guerrato, C-178/16, (...)

1 Nov 2017

Competition Law in Finland, Sari HILTUNEN

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 4-2017 • p. 229

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

1 Nov 2017

Competition Law in the Slovak Republic, Andrea ORSULOVA and David RAUS

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 4-2017 • p. 229

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

1^er sept. 2017

La récidive en droits de la concurrence, Ludovic BERNARDEAU

Stéphane Rodrigues • N° 3-2017 • p. 207

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

7 Aug 2017

The U.S. DOJ announces that an e-commerce company and its president have agreed to plead guilty to participating in a price-fixing conspiracy (Zaappaaz)

Marc Siegel, Peter Julian • August 2017

Background Texas-based e-commerce company Zaappaaz, Inc.—doing business as WB Promotions, Inc., Wrist-Band.com, and Customlanyard.net—and its president both agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional products sold online in the United States, including (...)

31 May 2017

The Irish Central Criminal Court fines a company executive for his participation in a cartel and imposes a suspended prison sentence (Aston Carpets)

Philip Andrews • May 2017

Ireland - Hard-core cartel offender gets €7,500 fine and suspended sentence* Following a guilty plea to criminal bid-rigging and obstruction charges, a company director was fined €7,500 by an Irish judge on 31 May and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment (suspended – meaning no jail time). (...)

1 Feb 2017

Deterring corruption and cartels: In search of a coherent approach

Emmanuelle Auriol, Erling Hjelmeng, Tina Søreide • N° 1-2017

This article addresses how the rules intended to protect consumers and taxpayers from economic crime, namely leniency and cartel settlements in competition law, criminal sanctions and debarment of suppliers from participation in public tenders for bribery, work together. While the economic (...)

1 Dec 2016

The UK CMA obtains a novel disqualification of an individual from holding company directorships and finds easier route to individual liability for cartel conduct (Mr Aston)

Jasvinder Nakhwal, Nicholas Queree • December 2016

An easier route to individual liability for cartel conduct?* On 1 December 2016, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) obtained a novel “disqualification undertaking” from Daniel Aston, the managing director of online poster supplier Trod Limited, whereby Mr Aston agreed not to act as a (...)

1 Dec 2016

The OECD holds a session on competition and sanctions in antitrust cases

OECD • December 2016

Competition authorities have imposed substantial fines for competition law violations over the last few decades. Several common steps are observed in setting fines: (i) determination of basic fine; (ii) adjustments (including aggravating and mitigating circumstances); (iii) comparisons to (...)

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