Organisation: ArcelorMittal

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has hired antitrust partners Ross Ferguson from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Richard Pepper from Macfarlanes to join its new Brussels office.

08 April 2024

European trade unions have called on Margrethe Vestager to distance her agency from comments by its former chief competition economist suggesting the EU’s heavy industry should “disappear”.

09 August 2023

Spain’s antitrust enforcer has fined three steel producers over €24 million for operating a scrap iron purchasing cartel that informed each other about planned factory shutdowns with a view to strengthening their negotiating positions with sellers.

14 March 2022

Richard Pepper has left Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to join the partnership at Macfarlanes as the UK-based firm looks to boost its Brussels practice following Brexit.

31 August 2021

Lara Elzas has left her role as a senior lawyer at the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets to join litigation boutique bureau Brandeis.

08 April 2021

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has appointed Juliette Enser to replace Howard Cartlidge as its senior director of cartels.

09 February 2021

Georg Weidenbach is leaving Latham & Watkins to join Gibson Dunn & Crutcher as a partner in Frankfurt.

20 October 2020

Spain’s competition authority has launched a formal investigation into 14 steel companies for allegedly exchanging information about the purchase price of scrap iron and the sales prices of steel products.

30 July 2020

Ukraine’s parliament has appointed Olga Pishchanska to lead its antitrust watchdog, less than three weeks after its former head resigned.

21 July 2020

Ukraine’s parliament has voted to remove the leader of its competition authority, despite the chair reportedly trying to withdraw his earlier letter of resignation.

07 July 2020