Global Legal Insights - Cartels

This edition covers the most significant developments in 19 jurisdictions around the world and is designed to provide in-house counsel, government agencies and private practice lawyers with a practical insight into cartel enforcement policy and procedure, including leniency/amnesty regimes, administrative settlement, sanctions and appeals.

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We are delighted to present the 10th edition of Global Legal Insights - Cartels. This edition covers the most significant developments in 19 jurisdictions around the world and, as before, is designed to provide in-house counsel, government agencies and private practice lawyers with a practical insight into cartel enforcement policy and procedure, including
leniency/amnesty regimes, administrative settlement, sanctions and appeals.
The aim of this edition, as with other volumes in the Global Legal Insights series, is to collect the views and opinions of a group of leading competition law practitioners from around the world in a single volume. Authors continue to be encouraged to focus their chapter on what they consider to be the most important practice points and recent developments in their jurisdictions, with free rein to determine the content of their chapter. By giving the authors the opportunity both to select the legal and policy issues which they wish to discuss, and to offer insights into the practical operation of their national regimes, this book aims to
look beyond the anti-cartel provisions and enforcement procedures which apply in the various jurisdictions. It also facilitates an up-to-date comparative analysis of the approaches currently being taken by competition agencies around the world to some of the difficult issues that can arise in practice.
This year has seen something of a "restart" after the COVID-19 global lockdowns, as enforcers dust off their dawn raid manuals and pick up tools again. Much of the activity seems sector agnostic: antitrust enforcement generally in the digital economy space continues to grow at a national and regional level, whilst old-fashioned FMCG, healthcare and automotive also attract increasing attention at the national level.
We thank the many authors for their considerable efforts in providing what we
hope is a more in-depth look at the global cartels landscape, and which proves to be helpful when considering enforcement initiatives and developments in your own jurisdiction.