Tag: Competition
Former FTC Bureau Of Competition Attorney Joins Davis Wright
Kaj Rozga, a former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) attorney with extensive experience in both government and private practice, has joined Davis Wright Tremaine’s (DWT)...
Spanish Gov Calls For A Probe Into Price Manipulation By Electricity...
The Spanish government has asked the nation's competition authority to investigate possible irregular activity between utilities companies that may be affecting electricity prices, according...
Privacy by Default, Abuse by Design: EU Competition Concerns About Apple’s...
By Thomas Hoppner (Technical University Wildau) & Philipp Westerhoff (Hausfeld)
With the most recent updates of its mobile operating systems, in April 2021 Apple implemented...
Belgium Approves Acquisition Of Mobile Vikings By Proximus
The Competition College of the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) approved on May 31, 2021, the acquisition of Mobile Vikings by Proximus with a partial...
Mexico Probes Competition In LPG Distribution
The investigation branch of Mexico's Federal Commission for Economic Competition (COFECE) has announced the launch of a probe to determine whether effective competitive conditions...
Mayer Brown Nabs Former Deputy Director Of FTC’s Bureau Of Competition
Antitrust veteran Gail Levine has joined Mayer Brown as a partner in Washington DC, where she will co-lead the firm’s global Antitrust & Competition...
DuckDuckGo Wants True “One-click” Search Competition On Android
Consumers deserve a competitive search market where the search engines they want are actually “just one click away” wrote Duck Duck Go in a...
An Economist’s Perspective on the EU Competition Judicial Review Process
By Jorge Padilla (Compass Lexecon)
In this brief essay I discuss the reasons why, in my experience, the judicial review of competition decisions by the...
Potential Competition
By Chris Pike (University of East Anglia) & Takuya Ohno (OECD)
This paper discusses the concept of potential competition as an important pro-competitive factor. While...
Belgium Competition Watchdog Closes Carrefour & Provera Probe
The Investigation and Prosecution Service of the Belgian Competition Authority has closed an investigation into the purchasing alliance between Carrefour and Provera after receiving...
