December 20, 2010
Dr. Derek Ireland
As many of you know, competition law in India has had a long and difficult history. India’s first competition law, the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act (MRTPA) of 1969 was based on the British model of the period. The MRTPA was for the most part ineffective for its first 20 years, largely because the economy continued to be dominated by government, state owned enterprises, and privately owned business groups and other larger companies that were supported and protected by government.
December 16, 2010
Steve Szentesi and Tom Hakemi will be presenting a lunch and learn seminar at Synergy Business Lawyers in Vancouver on December 17, 2010.
Competition Bureau Tests New Price Maintenance Provisions with Challenge Against Visa and MasterCard
December 15, 2010
The Competition Bureau announced earlier today that it had filed an application with the federal Competition Tribunal, and was launching a challenge, against Visa and MasterCard in relation to alleged “restrictive and anti-competitive rules that Visa and MasterCard impose on merchants who accept their credit cards.”
December 14, 2010
On December 14th, the European Commission issued its final revised rules on horizontal co-operation agreements (“Horizontal Guidelines”).
December 14, 2010
The Competition Bureau has announced that it has approved remaining divestitures in relation to the July, 2010 Waste Services Inc. (WSI)/IESI-BFC Ltd. merger.
December 12, 2010
Steve Szentesi and Tom Hakemi will be teaching sections of Canadian Competition Law at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, beginning in January, 2011.
December 12, 2010
We are delighted to announce that Mr. Subhadip Ghosh will be working with us on some of our international competition law consulting projects.
December 9, 2010
The European Commission has announced that six producers of LCD panels have been fined €648 million in a price-fixing cartel to fix the prices for LCD panels used in televisions, computer monitors and electronic notebook computers.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
