"You could argue that the two sides are actually very close," said Alec Burnside, a European competition specialist and partner at the law firm Linklaters & Alliance.
Alec J. Burnside, a competition specialist and partner in the Brussels office of the law firm Linklaters, said, "This case could set a precedent for other countries".
Nothing has been won yet, and Liverpool still face the competition specialists in the final in Basel, but as Klopp might have said in his wholly justified appreciation of Spanish strengths, that is not bad company to be keeping.
International banks also have to fend off competition from specialist rivals.
Despite the wicket of Suresh Raina, he will need an impressive score to offset his abject bowling and see off competition from specialist batsmen Eoin Morgan and Joe Root.
[C12.] British Bookseller Loses Its Edge Faced with increasing competition from specialist booksellers, online retailers and even supermarkets, the W.H. Smith brand image has begun to fray.
The deal had been thought to be in jeopardy after the Federal Trade Commission tried to block the sale, arguing it would hurt competition among specialist retailers in natural and organic groceries.
Rentokil did cleaning; G4S did security; Capita did IT; Serco did anything and everything – and its panache in the bidding process meant that it often beat out competition from specialist firms.
Spectramind has since been bought by Wipro, and Daksh by IBM.These Indian firms also face competition from specialist American call-centre companies which, like the global IT firms, have been adjusting to the cheap Indian competition by taking themselves to India.
Seibu Saison's customers can buy their groceries from Seiyu, their clothes from Seibu and Parco, their bento lunch-boxes from Family Mart and support the Seibu Lions baseball team at the weekend.But deregulation has brought new competition, from specialist Japanese and foreign retailers.
Notwithstanding the inroads made by better-capitalized and loosely regulated competition, the specialist system has survived as the cornerstone of a fair, open and accessible NYSE.
