Antitrust Team Shortlisted for Four Writing Awards

Four articles written by Dechert antitrust lawyers have been shortlisted in the 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards, a joint initiative between Concurrences and The George Washington University Law School. The awards aim to promote scholarship in competition law by honoring the year’s best writing on academic and business topics related to antitrust issues.

Dechert has earned nominations for one academic article and three business articles. The nominated Dechert articles are:

• “High stakes at the high court: The FTC’s disgorgement authority comes before the Supreme Court” written by Shari Ross Lahlou and Gregory Luib and shortlisted in the "Academic Articles: Procedure" category. The article focuses on the FTC’s use of Section 13(b) of the FTC Act to obtain disgorgement from defendants – a remedy the agency has pursued not just for consumer protection violations, but also increasingly in antitrust cases. Votes for this article can be registered here.
• “EU Court of Justice: Financial investors liable for anticompetitive conduct of portfolio companies” Written by Mélanie Thill-Tayara, Laurence Bary and Marion Provost, and shortlisted in the "Business Articles: Concerted Practices" category. The article reviews the EU Court of Justice's recent judgment that financial investors can incur parental liability for the anticompetitive practices of portfolio companies. Votes for this article can be registered here.
• “The European FDI regulation: What you need to know” written by members of the antitrust/competition and trade practices and shortlisted in the "Business Articles: Cross-border issues" category. The new EU Foreign Direct Investment Regulation radically alters the dynamics of foreign investment review in the EU. Dechert's white paper explores how it fits into the wider jigsaw of EU law, with lessons for those planning investments in Europe. Votes for this article can be registered here.
• “Silicon Valley should prepare to defend diagonal mergers” written by James Fishkin and Dennis Schmelzer and shortlisted in the "Business Articles: Mergers" category. This article explores the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to introduce the concepts of "diagonal mergers" and "mergers of complements" in the new vertical merger guidelines. Though these concepts are new to the U.S. antitrust lexicon, the article explores the history of these terms in Europe and the practical implications for business in the United States. Votes for this article can be registered here.

Twenty articles selected by a panel of academics and industry professionals will be named as “Jury’s Choice” winners. One article will be chosen for each sub-category within the Academic and Business categories. In addition, for the “Reader’s Choice” winners, the articles with the most votes in  the Academic, Business, Soft Law and Student categories, will be announced as the winners.

Voting is open through June 28, 2021. The results will be made public at the Awards Ceremony, which will take place virtually on June 30, 2021. For more information, please refer to the Antitrust Writing Awards website.

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