Month: September 2015

This post sets out one way to analyse evidence in cartel cases. It is probably of most interest to people in competition authorities but may also be of interest to anyone who has to put a complex story together from many pieces of evidence. There are certainly ways this can be improved, and completely different – and likely better – ways to do this, but this is the best I know so far. This approach works well for three distinct steps of handling a cartel case: the investigative stage where you need to analyse, summarise and further investigate the evidence; the review stage where you need to look at the evidence, check for consistency, gaps so on; and the writing […]

From Competition Bulletin: Asset acquisitions revisited “Earlier this year, I suggested that the law on when an asset acquisition might amount to a merger was somewhat opaque. The Court of Appeal’s decision in Eurotunnel II [2015] EWCA Civ 487 has brought some additional clarity, although the messy procedural history of that case has caused its own problems. A quick re-cap on […]” This is Commentary Elsewhere, from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page.