The U.K. competition authority structure is undergoing remodeling and we have several experts weighing in to take questions: How is the new organization going to react with other U.K. authorities?…

Bruce Lyons, May 14, 2012 I focus in this paper on institutional change and decision making in the new CMA. There are also other important changes to U.K. competition law,…

Valentine Korah, Despoina Mantzari, May 14, 2012 The focus on good institutional design, as an important component of strong competition policy and enforcement, has become a priority of antitrust agencies…

Renato Nazzini, May 14, 2012 In March 2012, the U.K. Government published its Response to a consultation on options for reform of the competition regime issued one year earlier, on March…

Ruchit Patel, May 14, 2012 In March 2011, the U.K. Government Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (“BIS”) consulted upon proposed reforms to the U.K. competition regime. The reforms proposed in…

Anna Mitchell, Paula Riedel, May 14, 2012 Since October 2010, it has, in essence, been a certainty that a merger between the OFT and the CC would go ahead, notwithstanding…

Stephen Houck, May 14, 2012 In the wake of the U.S. government’s unsuccessful prosecution of IBM (begun in 1969 and dropped in 1982), many knowledgeable observers believed that of the…