by Kevin Coates | Dec 14, 2014 | General
I spoke at IBC’s Advanced EU Competition Law event in Brussels in November, presenting an annual overview of cartel developments with Johan Ysewyn of Covington & Burling. Julie Adyns did the hard work of putting the slide pack together. Share...
by Kevin Coates | Oct 20, 2013 | Antitrust, Commentary, Featured, Mistakes the Other Side Make
(This post is the first in a series discussing mistakes both sides make in competition cases: see the introduction and as always don’t forget the disclaimer.) Playing the man, not the ball is a mistake more often – but not exclusively – carried out...
by Kevin Coates | Oct 20, 2013 | Antitrust, Commentary, Featured, Mistakes the Other Side Make
The [other side] always gets things wrong; if only the [other side] could make fewer mistakes, or be more trustworthy, or more open, then everything would move along more easily. This is a common feeling among those who work on competition cases (and pretty much...
by Kevin Coates | Oct 2, 2013 | Cartels, General
Two excellent colleagues – one of whom is DG Competition’s Settlement Officer – have written an overview of the current state of settlement practice for cartel cases. Abstract: Since 2008, six cartel settlements have been concluded successfully In...
by Kevin Coates | Oct 22, 2009 | General
The FCC has published its notice of proposed rule-making on net neutrality rules (see also News Release, Genachowski Statement,
Staff Presentation). Under the draft proposed rules, subject to reasonable network management, a provider of broadband Internet access...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 30, 2009 | General
The DOJ and FTC have filed a joint statement of interest in respect of the proposed Google Books settlement. It’s noteworthy for a couple of things. First, they agreed a joint response. Given relations between the FTC and DOJ in recent years, that’s...
