Category: Global Blogs

US: Mintz Levin nabs former DOJ antitrust lawyer (Competition Policy International)

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo announced a new hire to boost its antitrust practice, according to reports.

Mintz Levin has hired Dionne Lomax to the firm’s office in Washington, D.C., where she will join from Vinson & Elkins, where she was partner.

Lomax formerly served at the US Department of …read more

China: Complete bilingual antitrust law published for first time (Competition Policy International)

Oxford University Press has published the first-ever bilingual collection of all legal texts relating to Chinese competition law, according to reports.

Titled Competition Law in China: Laws, Regulations and Cases, the publication is the first comprehensive collection of its kind to be published in both Chinese and English. …read more

US: SCOTUS revives chances for antitrust LIBOR claims (Competition Policy International)

Bond investors who had LIBOR antitrust claims against banks dismissed last year have been given a new chance to fight their case, reports say, as the US Supreme Court agreed to hear their appeal.

Reports say the investors sued dozens of the world’s largest lenders for their alleged role in the …read more

Competition Policy and Scottish Independence (ESRC Centre for Competition Policy)

(by Andreas Stephan) On 18 September 2014 Scottish residents will be asked whether Scotland should be an independent country. A discussion was held at the recent Antitrust Enforcement Symposium (held by the University of Oxford’s Centre for Competition Law and Policy) regarding competition policy in an independent Scotland. This blog …read more