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Climbing Mount Everest with the ICN Unilateral Conduct Working Group

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Cynthia Lewis Lagdameo, Nov 27, 2012

CPI ICN Column edited by Maria Coppola (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)

 

Unilateral conduct has long been touted as the most difficult and controversial area of antitrust law. Some have described taking on convergence in unilateral conduct as attempting “the Mount Everest of antitrust.”1 In 2006 the ICN was ready to start the climb, taking on its greatest challenge: the field of unilateral conduct. Under the leadership of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the German Bundeskartellamt, the ICN formed the Unilateral Conduct Working Group (UCWG) to promote convergence and sound enforcement of laws governing unilateral conduct…

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Climbing Mount Everest with the ICN Unilateral Conduct Working Group