In 2010, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued hi-profile Silicon Valley tech companies including Apple, Intel, and Google for agreeing not to “cold call” or poach one another’s highly skilled engineers. The DOJ found e-mails in which top executives of these companies expressed their dissatisfaction whenever the agreement was not honoured. In 2015, the companies settled the case and a follow-on class action for$415 million (INR 3,400 crores), which was then paid to over 64,000 affected employees.
Please click here to read the full article by Vaibhav Choukse, published in CNBC TV 18.
Vaibhav is heading the Firm’s Competition Law Practice and has been practicing competition law since its inception in India. He focuses on complex enforcement/ litigation and merger control cases and represents and advises clients on a broad range of competition law issues spanning across several sectors.