Competition
The In-House Lawyer spoke to partners from Latham & Watkins about the major antitrust issues that are keeping general counsel on their toes.
When discussing the current direction of antitrust regulation, Carles Esteva Mosso, a partner in the competition practice at Latham & Watkins’ Brussels office puts it succinctly: ‘In Europe, we are seeing an evolution towards more intense merger enforcement.’ At a national level, many jurisdictions appear to be keen to occupy a role at the forefront of competition enforcement, with the result being that many are taking steps to strengthen their position. Paris-based Latham partner Mathilde Saltiel describes how ‘The French authority likes to flex its muscle and show that it’s really at the forefront of anything that can exist in the field. To that extent, it can probably compete with the German authority, and also with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which has also been very aggressive’.
