Tag: Enforcement
Antitrust Chronicle® – Private Equity
Dear Readers,
This edition of the Chronicle focuses on private equity (“PE”) markets.
The PE industry has experienced extraordinary growth over the past few years. In...
Antitrust Enforcers Intensify Scrutiny of Private Equity Deals
Over the last several years, private equity firms have faced an increasingly aggressive antitrust enforcement environment, both in the U.S. and abroad. This increased...
The Vampire Diaries: Antitrust Scrutiny Intensifies Around Private Equity
The private equity (“PE”) industry has experienced extraordinary growth over the past few years. In parallel, antitrust scrutiny of PE by the U.S. enforcement...
Antitrust’s Increasingly Long Arm: (Minority) Private Equity Investors Beware
Where do competition, antitrust, and private equity intersect? Once antitrust’s favored child compared to strategic buyers, private equity seems to have fallen from competition...
Pandemic Puppies and Private Equity
One of the perhaps unexpected consequences of the pandemic is the dramatic increase in pet ownership. Beginning in 2019, but continuing through the pandemic,...
Antitrust Chronicle® – Cooperation on Digital Competition: Principles and Practice
Letter from the Editor, by Assimakis Komninos
Dear Readers,
The advent of ex ante rules to deal with digital platforms – whether we call them “regulation”...
International Competition Cooperation: Are There Too Many Cooks In The Kitchen?
International cooperation on competition issues among agencies and governments can be great for consumers and companies alike, avoiding a host of inefficient and potentially...
Cooperation on Digital Competition: From Cooperation to Enhanced Cooperation
Cooperation agreements establishing the possibility of an exchange of information between competition authorities are in general based on two hypotheses. First, they assume that...
Toward International Antitrust: Challenges And Opportunities
Antitrust enforcement remains a concrete policy domestically, and an eccentricity internationally. Yet, global antitrust is imperative: International mergers, international cartels, and multinationals engaging with...
Proposals for International Cooperation for Competition in Digital Markets
Some countries have called for several years for international cooperation for competition in digital markets. Yet the declarations are political without concrete policy proposals...
