Tag: CMA
UK’s CMA Increasingly Hostile to Business, Says INEOS Chair
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the chair of INEOS, the private chemicals giant, has accused Britain's competition watchdog of being 'increasingly hostile to business', following its...
Rule Britannia: Thanks to Brexit It Does… At Least in Antitrust
By Lawrence B. Landman*
Many observers were surprised when the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) recently prohibited Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of...
Brave New World?
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is expected soon to get new powers to regulate digital companies with Strategic Market Status (“SMS”). Once the...
UK’s CMA Launches Market Study Into Competition In Housebuilding
The UK’s antitrust regulator has launched an investigation into the country’s housebuilding sector over concerns that competition is not working properly and could be...
UK’s CMA To Crack Down On Food And Drink Greenwashing Claims
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is tightening its grip on supermarkets over fears of increasing greenwashing claims of food and drink items.
The CMA’s...
Compare the Markets: Two-Sided Market Definition in the Comparethemarket Case
In competition law, how to define markets in the context of two-sided platforms is a hot topic. Drawing on the judgment of the UK...
The CMA’s Investigation Of Competition Restrictions Regarding Browsers
By: Damien Geradin (The Platform Law Blog)
On 22 November 2022, the CMA launched a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers. In this post,...
Gibson Dunn Partner Shortlisted To Head-Up UKs CMA
Ali Nikpay, a partner at the US law firm Gibson Dunn, is among the candidates being considered by Jacob Rees-Mogg as the Competition and...
UK Fines Soccer Firms For Price Fixing
JD Sports, Elite Sports and Rangers FC have been fined a total of more than £2 million (€2.3 million) by the UK competition watchdog...
CMA Unwinds Veolia & Suez Merger In The UK
The CMA has today required Veolia to sell 3 businesses after an in-depth merger investigation concluded the merger gives rise to competition concerns in...
