Corporate & Securities Law

Criminal Antitrust Fines Skyrocket
Antitrust enforcers at the Department of Justice collected a whopping $1 billion in criminal fines in fiscal year 2009, an increase of 48% over 2008. But don't just chalk it up to the Obama administration's get-tough stance on antitrust...

Antitrust Fines, Tax Deductibility, Coöperation between Commission and National Courts: Case C-429/07
The Court of Justice has handed down its first judgment defining the scope of the right of the Commission to intervene in proceedings pending before national courts where the coherent application of the antitrust rules so require...

Antitrust Fines, Due Process and the ECHR
Over at the highly recommended ECHR Blog, there's an excellent post on EU antitrust fines and ECHR fair trial rights. The author of the post, Felix Ronkes Agerbeek, is an eminent lawyer, who works in the Commission's presitigious legal service,...

Antitrust Proceedings: Transparency and Predictability
We're back ! It seems it is slowly beginning to dawn on the Commission that there is something wrong with its antitrust proceedings: Lack of due process; No independent review of the evidence; Confusion between decision-making and investigative powers and...

Europe Fines Intel a Record $1.45 Billion in Antitrust Case
Europe Fines Intel a Record $1.45 Billion in Antitrust Case :: L&C Law’s Geoffrey Manne on the Trouble With ‘Effects-Based’ Antitrust

Too Big To Fail as an Antitrust Concept
There has been a lot of talk recently about the possibility that lax antitrust gave rise to the financial crisis or that antitrust could be used as a proactive weapon to prevent mergers and acquisitions that would create entities “too big to fail...

Pet Food Recall and Deaths
Dogs and Cats Sickened by Tainted Menu Food Products

Class Action Filed Against Banks in Foreclosure Proceedings
Class Action Filed Against Banks in Foreclosure Proceedings

City of Fargo To Pay for Excessive Traffic Fines
City of Fargo To Pay for Excessive Traffic Fines

LCD Manufacturers
to Pay $585 Million in Price-Fixing Fines

Tollway I-Pass
alleging that users were sent erroneous fines

19 Washington Cities
Face Traffic Fines Class Action

City of Fargo Reaches Potential Settlement in Traffic Fines Class Action
City of Fargo Reaches Potential Settlement in Traffic Fines Class Action