Tag: Competition
Arnold & Porter Grow Competition Team In Brussels
Arnold & Porter announced today that David Henry, a practicing UK barrister and Belgian advocaat, has joined the firm’s Antitrust & Competition practice as...
Private Enforcement and Antitrust Consensual Dispute Resolution in Europe
By Enrique Sanjuan (University of Malaga)
Articles 18 and 19 of the Damages Directive 2014 include, in development of the provisions of recitals 5 and...
UK Launches First Crypto Competition Class Action Claim
SV Claims began a landmark competition case against major cryptocurrency exchanges seeking damages of up to £9.9 billion.
The claim is brought in the Competition...
Swedish Match Accused of Using IP Suits To Stifle Competition
Dryft Sciences accused Swedish tobacco giant Swedish Match AB's American subsidiary of violating antitrust law in Los Angeles federal court by driving it out...
UK’s CMA Unwinds Real Estate Software Merger
Britain's competition regulator said on Wednesday that Canadian cloud-based software firm Dye & Durham should sell UK-based TM Group after its investigation identified competition concerns.
The...
Stephen King Says That “Consolidation Is Bad For Competition” In Testimony...
Stephen King took the stand on Tuesday in the Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster antitrust trial, telling the judge that he volunteered as a witness...
UK’s Competition Enforcer Has Shot Itself In The Foot
By Cat Rutter Pooley, Financial Times
To the victor the spoils, the saying goes. Unfortunately, the culmination of a long-running competition wrangle over sportswear recalls...
Outgoing CMA Chief Is Anxious Over the Future Of UK Antitrust...
Outgoing chief of the competition watchdog Andrea Coscelli has said he still has “anxiety” about the UK’s regulatory position.
Speaking on law firm Cleary Gottlieb’s...
EU Concerned Orange’s Belgian Deal May Hurt Competition
EU antitrust regulators opened on Thursday a full-scale investigation into French telecoms provider Orange's bid for a majority stake in Belgian peer VOO SA, warning...
UK Competition Watchdog Lets Music Streaming Off The Hook
Some nine months after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) revealed it was carrying out a market study into music-streaming services, the government...