Deal or No Deal Settling Cartel Cases in Europe: Recent anecdotes Elaine GibsonBolton 25 February 20

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Deal or No Deal?Settling Cartel Cases in
Europe Recent anecdotesElaine
Gibson-Bolton25 February 2009
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Issues

• What sort of cases are suited?
• multi-party?
• multi-issue?
• aggressively defended?
• Hybrid cases?
• Push or pull approach by the Commission
• Cases falling within the Notice
• Cases outside the Notice!

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Settlement after issue of SO!

• Proposals
• Advantages/Disadvantages
• for the Commission
• for the parties
• Fines?
• Right of Appeal
• Deal or No Deal

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• Elaine Gibson-Bolton
• EU Competition Department
• SJ Berwin LLP
• 10 Queen Street Place, London, EC4R 1BE
• Email Elaine.Gibson-Bolton_at_sjberwin.com
• Tel [phone]