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23/03/2023

Formación de jueces sobre acceso a fuentes de prueba

Hitchings & Co. sigue su apoyo al programa de formación en derecho de la competencia de la Universidad de Valencia participando en dos días dedicados al “disclosure” junto con jueces de seis países. Paul Hitchings, co-director del programa, dio el discurso de apertura y dirigió una mesa con Jiri Kindl y Mariya Serafimova sobre las últimas sentencias del TJUE sobre estas cuestiones.

01/01/2023

Paul Hitchings named as a Leading Individual in Europe by Who’s Who Legal 2022

In its 2022 worldwide rankings Who’s Who Legal has ranked Paul Hitchings as a leading individual for competition litigation in Europe, the only lawyer to be nominated in Spain. Paul is described as a “senior figure in the market who is highlighted by market respondents as a commercially minded and thorough lawyer with the ability to successfully and efficiently progress a litigation from beginning to end”. 

08/11/2022

The Madrid Competition Litigation Seminar will celebrate its 4th edition in April 2023

Hitchings & Co. is promoting the fourth edition of the Madrid Competition Litigation Seminar (MCLS23) which will take place under the direction of the course’s director Paul Hitchings and with the support of the Steering Committee, which includes Ignacio Sancho Gargallo, Sir Peter Roth, Mieke Dudok van Heel, Joana Araujo, Gustavo Martín Martín and Antonio Robles Laborda. The event, which will take place at the Madrid campus of the Carlos III University of Madrid, will count on the presence of over twenty specialist competition judges from around Spain and the EU, members of the CNMC and the European Commission, academics and private practitioners. It is a unique and leading event in this field.

14/10/2022

Paul Hitchings intervenes in Judges Training Session in Valencia

Paul Hitchings of Hitchings & Co. is co-director of the University of Valencia’s sixth EU judicial training programme in competition law and intervened in the first of the three sessions that took place in October this year. We would like on his behalf to thank Bridget Lucas KC, Vivien Terrien (General Court), Stephen O’Dowd (Harbour), Mieke Dudok van Heel (Amsterdam District Court), Jessica Steele and Charlotte Best (both Freshfields, London) for their excellent contributions, and to Juan Ignacio Peris and Purificación Martorell for their invitation to Paul to participate.

07/10/2022

Paul Hitchings contributes to two publications

Paul Hitchings has contributed an article on competition damages actions to the 2022 Competition Law Annual - Antitrust Damages: How to achieve greater coherence and efficiency in the resolution of mas claims? His summary of the Mock Trial, performed on the basis of the Conduit abuse of dominance case at the Judges’ training session in November last year, has also been published by the University of Valencia (ed. Tirant lo Blanch). Rodrigo Sánchez, trainee at Hitchings & Co. assisted in the preparation of the publication.

01/09/2022

Hitchings & Co. promociona las prácticas jurídicas para jóvenes

La Comunidad de Madrid (Dirección General del Servicio Público de Empleo) y la Unión Europea (Fondo Social Europeo) han otorgado a Hitchings & Co. una subvención relativa a su contratación de jóvenes abogados en prácticas. Las ayudas forman parte del programa de recuperación económica del Gobierno y la respuesta de la UE a la pandemia de COVID-19. 

09/05/2022

Tercer Collective Redress Forum

Paul Hitchings forma parte del Steering Committee que dirige el Collective Redress Forum que celebró su tercera edición en Francfurt en mayo. Con participantes destacados provenientes de unos 10 países europeos, los debates han ilustrado la altísima actividad en este campo, la marcada evolución de los mecanismos de acción colectiva en el campo antitrust (en especial, en Reino Unido y Portugal), las nuevas oportunidades en el ámbito del derecho medioambiental (y su potencial para tener un impacto real en la eficacia de las políticas públicas en este campo) y la atención creciente a los desafíos de la gestión de la litigación masiva para el proceso y sistema judicial nacionales. 

01/05/2022

Hitchings & Co. opens in new premises

The firm is delighted to have opened wonderful new premises in Spaces, 1 Via de los Poblados, Campo de las Naciones. We look forward to welcoming collaborators, clients and friends there. 

31/03/2022

Brussels Private Enforcement Conference

Paul Hitchings shared a panel with Kim Dietzel, Thomas Funke, Rick Cornelissen, Rino Caiazzo and Dorothy Hansberry-Biegunska on the latest developments across Europe in antitrust litigation. 

29/12/2021

Article in Mass Claims Journal

Paul Hitchings comments on the European Court of Justice’s ruling in Volvo I last year, highlighting its approval of specialized competition courts as a means toaddress complex mass litigation in this area and recommending it as a means to deal with cases like Trucks.

18/11/2021

Paul Hitchings participa en el European Forum of Competition Litigation 2021

Paul Hitchings asiste por décima vez como invitado al European Competition Litigation Forum, este año en Chantilly, Francia. Con asistencia de la Comisión Europea y destacados abogados, economistas y fondos de litigación de 8 países, el debate se centró en temas como pass-on, disclosure, nuevos casos de abuso de posición dominante, el impacto de las acciones de daños en el procedimiento sancionador o la creciente relevancia del Derecho UE para el Derecho Procesal nacional.

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09/09/2021

Madrid Competition Litigation Seminar

Paul Hitchings, with the support of ThomsonReuters, brings together judges, practitioners, public administration and other stakeholders from 9 European countries to debate in person the latest challenges in private enforcement. Our special thanks to Steering Committee members Ignacio Sancho Gargallo, Sir Peter Roth, Marina Tavassi, Arantzazu Golderos and Joaquim Hortalà.