In This Issue:
- Main Article:
..EC Competition Law: Latest Developments Provide Ever Greater Opportunities for Private Enforcement
- Noted With Interest:
..The Strategy of Lone Pine Orders: Timing Matters
- Practice Area Notes:
..Insurance Litigation Update
..EU Litigation Update
..ITC Litigation Update
- Victories:
..Equate Wins Dismissal of Claims for Breach of Alleged Distributorship Agreement
..Major Victories and Settlements in Foam Antitrust Case
- Excerpt from EC Competition Law: Latest Developments Provide Ever Greater Opportunities for Private Enforcement:
The private enforcement of competition law within the EU continues its inexorable rise and plaintiff opportunities abound. Small and medium size businesses throughout Europe are joining larger companies in initiating proceedings relating to all manner of products and services. The European Commission, as well as national competition authorities, are showing an ever greater appetite for investigating and prosecuting breaches of European competition law, and the resulting regular flow of infringement decisions provides powerful ammunition for private parties injured by such infringements to assert their rights and often claim substantial damages in the national courts. The national courts themselves are becoming increasingly sophisticated in processing these claims, and the Commission’s very recently adopted Directive on competition damages actions will further strengthen plaintiffs’ rights, improve national systems for private enforcement across the EU, and make it even easier to prosecute and succeed in such claims.
Please see full publication below for more information.
