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Cartel Enforcement is Evolving Across the Americas. Here Are Three Aspects to Consider

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Competition enforcers throughout the Americas focus their efforts to investigate and prosecute antitrust cartels: agreements between competitors to fix prices, rig bids, or allocate markets....more

Morgan Lewis

Global Cartel Enforcement Report 2022

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With a couple of notable exceptions, cartel fines were lower in most jurisdictions in 2022 than in the prior year—and well below historical norms. Fines in the United States—long the leader in cartel enforcement—were lower...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

After Nearly Fifty Years of Dormancy, Criminal Monopolization Charges Have Returned

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​​​​​​​For nearly 50 years, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has brought federal criminal charges only for allegations of illegal coordinated behavior among competitors in violation of...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Canada’s Competition Act Amendments: Making It Riskier to Compete on Price?

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One of the recent amendments to the Competition Act has the potential to seriously chill price competition by leading Canadian businesses....more

Hogan Lovells

Cartel damages: Germany, the assignment model and debt collection services – an update

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Germany doesn’t offer claimants a true U.S. or UK style class action regime. Claimants will therefore seek alternative ways to join forces and bundle their claims using the so-called assignment-model as a favoured solution....more

The Volkov Law Group

Antitrust Division Enforcement – As Promised and Being Delivered

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The Antitrust Division’s Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter promised a new era in antitrust enforcement.  He won bi-partisan support from both Republicans and Democrats.  Across the antitrust field, he promised...more

The Volkov Law Group

HR and CCOs Watch Out!! — The Antitrust Division Doubles Down on Labor Market Criminal Cartel Activity

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The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has targeted collusion in labor markets for criminal prosecution.  This was not unexpected.  Indeed, the Antitrust Division gave plenty of warning to companies that criminal...more

Morgan Lewis

Major Amendments to German Act Against Restraints of Competition Take Effect

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The 10th amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (ARC) entered into force on January 19 (ARC Digitization Act); the act seeks to modernize German antitrust rules and address challenges associated with...more

Morgan Lewis

Global Cartel Enforcement Report 2020

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Despite the challenges of an unprecedented global pandemic, cartel enforcement activity in 2020 increased in many leading enforcement jurisdictions. Corporate fines, for example, more than doubled from 2019 in the United...more

Hogan Lovells

Mindestens 15% - Landgericht Dortmund schätzt kartellbedingten Preisaufschlag

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Das Landgericht Dortmund macht mit Urteil vom 30.09.2020 (8 O 115/14 (Kart)) von der Möglichkeit Gebrauch, die Schadenshöhe in Kartellschadensersatzfällen zu schätzen – ohne ein eigenes Gutachten einzuholen. ...more

Cozen O'Connor

DOJ Antitrust Division Endorses International Cooperation in Cartel Investigations

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In July 2020, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (Antitrust Division) applauded the International Competition Network (ICN) initiative on cross-border leniency cooperation to fight international price...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Antitrust Damages Claims in Germany

Kartelle sind schwerwiegende Eingriffe in unsere marktwirtschaftliche Ordnung, die jedes Jahr erhebliche volkswirtschaftliche Schäden verursachen. Wenn sich Wettbewerber untereinander absprechen, um Preise festzusetzen,...more

Morgan Lewis

Global Cartel Enforcement Report Year - End 2019

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Global cartel fine totals rebounded somewhat in 2019, approaching historical norms following two years of sharply lower fine levels. The $6.1 billion total is the highest global fine level since 2016. Most of the increased...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Deterrence And Detection: Antitrust Division Reaffirms Commitment To Cartel Enforcement, Employing Corporate Compliance Policy And...

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In a speech at the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s International Cartel Conference in San Francisco last week, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard A. Powers reaffirmed the Antitrust Division’s...more

The Volkov Law Group

Bumble Bee CEO Convicted of Participating in Price-Fixing Conspiracy

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Global companies are paying greater attention to criminal antitrust risks – and with good reason.  We often dwell on the impact to a company of a major FCPA investigation.  A global criminal antitrust investigation often in...more

Hogan Lovells

Algorithms in the spotlight of antitrust authorities

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Joint study by the Bundeskartellamt (German Cartel Office) and the Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority) indicates need for higher compliance standards - Digital ubiquity, and the resulting rules, do not...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Pork Price-Fixing Complaint Dismissed: Class Plaintiffs Will Amend

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Chief Judge Tunheim recently dismissed, with leave to amend, the class complaints in In Re Pork Antitrust Litigation.  The Pork case— filed in the District of Minnesota against Tyson, Hormel, JBS and other major pork...more

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DOJ Provides Even More Reason to Enhance (Or Create) Corporate Antitrust Compliance Programs

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While the Department of Justice's enforcement and policy priorities change from administration to administration, one priority has not, dating to the Clinton era: The DOJ's Antitrust Division loves to prosecute price-fixing...more

Troutman Pepper

New DOJ Policy on Corporate Antitrust Compliance Programs Provides Guidance for In-House Counsel and Compliance Officers

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On July 11, the U.S. Department of Justice rolled out a new policy to encourage stronger corporate antitrust compliance efforts. Announced by DOJ Antitrust Division head Makan Delrahim in remarks at the New York University...more

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DOJ Changes Course and Announces That It Will Favorably Consider “Robust” Antitrust Compliance Programs at Both the Charging and...

Benjamin Franklin once observed that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In the antitrust context, this means that most, if not all, companies will want as a matter of course to adopt and maintain an antitrust...more

The Volkov Law Group

DOJ’s Antitrust Division Announces New Policy for Crediting Corporate Compliance Programs (Part I of II)

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In yet another major compliance development, the Justice Department announced the adoption of a new policy to credit effective compliance programs in resolving criminal cartel prosecutions against corporations....more

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Companies With Effective Antitrust Compliance Programs Could Get Relief From Criminal Prosecution Under New DOJ Policy

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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...more

Hogan Lovells

The Antitrust Division changes the calculus for cooperating cartelists

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Change is here. A few weeks ago, Makan Delrahim – Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (the Division or DOJ) – signaled a major change in how the Division will assess a...more

Jones Day

EU's Highest Court Expands Cartel Damages Liability for Corporate Parents and Successors

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The Development: The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that parent companies and economic successors can be held liable for damages caused by a subsidiary or acquired company in cartel cases. This significantly broadens...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Cartels: Enforcement, Appeals and Damages Actions 2019: Taiwan

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Overview of the law and enforcement regime relating to cartels The governing law for competition enforcement in Taiwan is the Taiwan Fair Trade Act (“TFTA”). The TFTA was enacted in February 1991, and took effect in 1992. The...more

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