Sentences with phrase «leniency applications»

Brazil's Council for Economic Defense is expected to post substantial fines in 2017 following reports of a heavy on - going case - load, which includes 30 active investigations linked to Operation Car Wash, the investigation and prosecution of corruption and collusion in Petrobras contracting, and an anticipated 300 % increase in leniency applications in 2016 compared to 2015.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority of these cases start with a so - called leniency application.

At the time of leaving Herbert Smith in 2005, she was a senior associate in their EU, Competition and Regulation department where she advised commercial clients on all aspects of EU and UK competition law with a particular emphasis on competition litigation before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, private enforcement actions for damages and regulatory investigations by the UK and EU authorities into cartels (including leniency applications) and abuse of dominant position.

Our Competition Disputes practice is integrated within our Competition, Regulation and Trade team and the wider Dispute Resolution team, providing clients with a seamless service taking a cartel case, for example, from leniency application to dawn raid to appeal to damages action, and managing the interplay between public and private enforcement.

In light of the tremendous demand that immunity and leniency applications impose on Competition Bureau resources, the Bureau has been carefully scrutinizing such applications and insisting on strict compliance with designated timelines and information production requirements.

Advising the subsidiary of a German manufacturing company on a recent leniency application to the CMA including advice on the cartel offence.

On the other hand, there has been a more recent reduction in the number of cartels ongoing at the time of a first leniency application.

Thus far most of the relevant cases (Pfleiderer, Donau Chemie, Energie Baden - Württemberg) have dealt with questions concerning access to the file in general and access to leniency applications and related documents in particular.

In 2010, the OFT accepted every one of the 25 leniency applications it received, compared with 13 of the 15 applications it received in 2009, according to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC), who obtained the information through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Andrew advises private clients regularly in relation to domestic and EC competition law issues, including Chapter I / Article 81 and Chapter II / Article 82, leniency applications, cartel investigations, telecommunications, mergers and State aid.

She has a depth of experience in co-ordinating the defence of antitrust investigations across multiple jurisdictions, including in advising on dawn raids and leniency applications.

Accordingly, companies making an immunity or leniency application and / or facing a competition authority investigation need advisers who can not only effectively advise on the global risks and benefits of making an immunity or leniency application, and defend the investigation, but also prepare the company for any subsequent litigation and how to manage the process strategically from start to finish.