Antitrust & Merger Control

• Competition Investigations: practical tips

  Conference Call

  Submitted: 19 November 2014

  Speakers from across the Simmons & Simmons network cover the key practical considerations arising in Competition Investigations; covering the conduct of internal investigations; handling Dawn Raids and information requests; the criminal cartel offence; immunity and leniency applications; and the co-ordination of multiple country, and multiple regulator, investigations.

• The increasing importance of competition law to financial services organisations: a pan-European perspective

  Seminar

  Submitted: 08 October 2014

  Video recording and slides available from a session held as part of our CPD Day on 8th/9th October 2014. This session explores the ever increasing level of scrutiny and enforcement action by the competition authorities in Europe in relation to financial services, and consider the implications for and the impact that this is having on the businesses of financial institutions, large and small.

• Dos and don'ts in international investigations

  Seminar

  Submitted: 08 October 2014

  Video recording and slides available from a session held as part of our CPD Day on 8th/9th October 2014. This session covers practical issues in carrying out internal investigations, and how financial institutions can manage their risks across a number of areas, such as privilege, cross-border issues, self-reporting, related employment obligations and increasing criminal liability. We also spend some time looking at the implications of recent international financial regulatory and competition investigations.

• Made in ERRA: the minefield of criminal cartels in 2014

  Conference Call

  Submitted: 13 February 2014

  Competition, white collar crime and corporate governance experts from Simmons and Simmons’ investigations team discuss issues arising from the revised UK cartel offence.