Thursday, February 27, 2014
GCR Awards 2014 - Vote Now
See http://globalcompetitionreview.com/news/article/35268/gcr-awards-2014-one-week-left/.
The nominees are:
Team awards
Matter of the Year
Thermo Fisher/Life Technologies
Toshiba’s victory against Best Buy in LCD trial
Merger Control Matter of the Year – Americas
Aetna/Coventry Health Care, US
Oxiteno/Uruguayan American Chemical, Brazil
Merger Control Matter of the Year – Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa
Ultratech Cement/Jaypee Cement, India
Virgin Australia/Tiger Airways, Australia
Merger Control Matter of the Year – Europe
Nynas purchase of Shell's Hamburg refinery
Behavioural Matter of the Year – Americas
Defence of Visa/Mastercard before Competition Tribunal
Defence of Peter Grimm, Dominick Carollo and Steven Goldberg in Municipal Bonds case
Defence of Richard Bai in AUO price fixing trial
Defence of Toronto Real Estate Board before Competition Tribunal
Behavioural Matter of the Year – Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa
Defence in mortgage price-fixing case, Australia
Defence in aluminium phosphate tablet case, India
Defence of Daum in abuse of dominance case, Korea
Arcelor Mittal/Cape Gate access to file success, South Africa
Behavioural Matter of the Year – Europe
Libor - Defence of Barclays and UBS
Litigation of the Year
TFT-LCD (Flat Panel) antitrust litigation: Best Buy v HannStar Display and Toshiba
In Re Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) antitrust litigation
AkzoNobel/Metlac before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal
Cartel Damage Claims v Holcim before the District Court of Düsseldorf
German Rail Cartel - Follow-on Litigation
Individuals' awards
Lawyer of the Year
Antoine Winckler - Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Christine Varney - Cravath Swaine & Moore
Deirdre Trapp - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Ilene Knable Gotts - Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Michael Egge - Latham & Watkins
Paul Denis - Dechert
Richard Parker - O'Melveny & Myers
Steven Sunshine - Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Lawyer of the Year - 40 and under
Alastair Chapman - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Amanda Reeves - Latham & Watkins
Ana Paula Martinez - Levy & Salomao
Casey Halladay - McMillan
Claire Jeffs - Slaughter and May
Leonor Cordovil - Grinberg Cordovil
Pierre Zelenko - Linklaters
Warren Rosborough - McDermott Will & Emery
Economist of the Year
Carl Shapiro - Charles River Associates
Christina Caffara - Charles River Associates
David Dranove - Bates White
Dennis Carlton - Compass Lexecon
Helen Jenkins - Oxera
Peter Boberg - Charles River Associates
Corporate Counsel of the Year
Adam Eaton - Visa
Calvin Park - Qualcomm Korea
Christoph Klahold - ThyssenKrupp
Dina Kallay - Ericsson
Howard Kass - US Airways (American Airlines)
Kent Walker - Google
Academic Excellence Award
Damien Geradin
Daniel Sokol
C Scott Hemphill
Gregory Sidak
John Vickers
Article of the year
A Paul Victor, Seth C Farber and Brandon Duke, “The Policy Case for Eliminating The Public Identification of Carve-Outs In Antitrust Plea Agreements"
Herbert Hovenkamp, "Anticompetitive Patent Settlements and the Supreme Court's Actavis Decision"
John D Harkrider, "Seeing the Forest through the SEPs"
Joshua D Wright and Judge Douglas H Ginsburg, "The Goals of Antitrust: Welfare Trumps Choice"
Enforcement awards
Agency of the Year – Americas
Brazil’s CADE
Chile's National Economic Prosecutor
Ecuador's Superintendency for the Control of Market Power
US Department of Justice’s antitrust division
US Federal Trade Commission
Agency of the Year – Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa
Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
China's National Development & Reform Commission
Competition Commission of India
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission
Korea's Fair Trade Commission
Agency of the Year – Europe
European Commission’s Directorate General of Competition
France’s Competition Authority
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office
Norway’s Competition Authority
Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
Enforcement Matter of the Year
European Commission fines Lundbeck
Germany’s investigation of Amazon Marketplace
Supreme Court Actavis decision
Firm awards
Regional firm of the year – Europe
Bredin Prat
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gleiss Lutz
Hengeler Mueller
Schoenherr
Uría Menéndez
Regional firm of the year – Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa
Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs
Gilbert + Tobin
Kim & Chang
Regional firm of the year - Americas
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Grinberg Cordovil
McMillan
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/antitrustprof_blog/2014/02/gcr-awards-2014-vote-now.html
