Chillin'Competition

Rich Pepper is clearly one of the lawyers on the rise in the competition law field and, more importantly, a very nice guy. He participated at our most recent conference, where he discussed the increase in the intensity and lenght of Commission investigations and in the volume of information assessed.

The video of Rich’s presentation is available here.

[Note: this is the eight post in a series featuring videos of the individual interventions that took place at the Chillin’Competition conference on 30 November 2018. For more videos, click here]

After many years of reflection, we think we have found a way to beat the Legal Service and DG Comp and in a court:

Playing basketball.

The Legal Service has put together an all-star team, known as the LS Lakers. No kidding.

Following a victory against OLAF, they will soon be opposing DG Comp’s team (while they often team up for Luxembourg matches, where they have an astonishing away record, they often play non-public games with each other…).

And they have challenged us to compete with them.

We see this an opportunity here for those people in private practice that would like to know how it feels to beat the Commission in court, even if just once. Or at least to entertain the thought for a while 😉

Any lawyers, economists or consultants out there who think can be up to the challenge, please drop us a line and we’ll try to set it up. We can show the world the teamwork spirit, lack of individualism and superior physical skills that characterize our profession.  It’s about time we stop being known only for our humility and integrity.

We would also appreciate suggestions for a possible team name. Please feel free to submit them as comments to this post. Best suggestion gets a Chillin’Competition sports bag and running t-shirt!

If this initiative is successful, we might ask MLex to cover games instead of hearings (box scores alerts, highlight videos and full summaries directly via email).