Tag: Competition
Sweden: Mobile operator criticizes PTS plans for 5G spectrum
According to TelecomPaper, 3 Sweden has repeated its criticism of regulator PTS’ spectrum auction. In a blog, the mobile operator stated PTS was accused...
EU: Osborne Clarke grows its competition practice
Osborne Clarke announced the appointment of new partner, Steven Verschuur who will join the partnership on April 1, in Belgium.
An expert in EU law...
EU: Regulator finds retail chains participated in drink price-fixing
According to a report from Reuters Portugal’s competition authority accused six big supermarket chains of illegally fixing prices for some drinks in collusion with...
UK: Regulator to examine digital advertising
According to a report from the Financial Times, the UK competition regulator will examine online advertising as a “first step” to reframing competition policy...
Turkey: Gov Google abuse probe, again
Turkey’s competition authority is formally investigating Google for allegedly abusing its dominance in the global search engine market by favoring its own local search...
UK: CMA warns businesses after ending Remicade probe
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he Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has closed its investigation into a suspected anti-competitive discount scheme developed by pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme...
US: Mishcon de Reya gets new competition partner
Mishcon de Reya announced that Neil Baylis will join the firm’s Competition Group as a partner on March 18, 2019.
Neil was previously a partner...
US: FTC official leaves Competition Bureau for Akin Gump
Akin Gump announced that Haidee L. Schwartz, former Acting Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), will join...
EU: Commission says Serbia’s TurkStream branch to impede competition
The European Union’s energy watchdog said on Thursday a planned section of Gazprom’s TurkStream pipeline set to carry Russian natural gas across Serbia to...
UK: Pharma firms accused of illegal agreements
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that, from July 2011 to April 2015, the sole supplier of hydrocortisone tablets in the...
