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US, EU cartel enforcers seeing uptick in immunity applications as companies find themselves in 'leniency race'

By Khushita Vasant and Nicholas Hirst
  • 12 Oct 2024 03:03
  • 12 Oct 2024 03:03
The leniency program of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division is thriving, and investigators have noticed that leniency applicants in cartel cases tend to “lose the race” as fellow cartelists beat them in reporting on the anticompetitive conduct, a senior DOJ official said.
Manish Kumar, deputy assistant attorney general

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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