7/16/2025 8:01:04 AM EU Steps Up on Algorithmic Pricing Cartels, Joining the US and Other Jurisdictions By Tobias Klose Bruce McCulloch Uta Itzen Dominic Divivier Thomas Lübbig Frank Felgentraeger +3 more... Show less Until recently, some compliance departments may have treated algorithmic pricing more as a theoretical antitrust risk in the EU – a topic...
7/14/2025 8:10:30 AM European Commission gives informal guidance on port equipment sustainability agreement and automotive licensing negotiation group By Dominic Divivier Tobias Klose Thomas Lübbig Corin Gittinger Joanna Goyder +2 more... Show less The European Commission has given informal guidance to two groups of competitors who are collaborating to achieve EU sustainability and...
7/10/2025 9:33:36 AM No Safe Harbour: EU Court Confirms Antitrust Risks in Capital Markets Communications By Tobias Klose Uta Itzen Dominic Divivier Frank Felgentraeger +1 more... Show less Yesterday, the General Court handed down its decision in T-188/24 – Michelin v Commission (currently only available in French) which is...
7/4/2025 7:21:34 AM Enforcement of judgments made easier between the EU and UK: The Hague Convention enters into force in the UK By Ali Kirby-Harris Nathalie Colin Carsten Wendler Anne-Laure Vincent Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Jose Luis Prieto Katharina Shingler Gregorio Pettazzi Domen Tursic +6 more... Show less The Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (the Convention),...
7/3/2025 10:23:30 AM Green Goals, Red Tape: Aarhus Convention’s Impact on EU State aid procedure By Onno Brouwer Andreas von Bonin Florian Reiter-Werzin Conor Leavy Isabel Chaves +2 more... Show less In May 2025, the European Commission (EC) amended the State aid rules to ensure compliance with the European Union’s (EU) obligations...
7/1/2025 9:33:24 PM A Political Breakthrough: EU reaches deal on bank resolution framework By Alicia Hildner Alexander Glos Background On June 25, 2025, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached at political agreement to reform the...
6/30/2025 12:40:10 PM CISAF: The EU’s ambitious State aid framework for competitive decarbonisation By Andreas von Bonin Deborah Janssens Jérôme Philippe Elaine Pajeot Aurélie Morreale Florian Reiter-Werzin Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. +4 more... Show less To reach its ambitious 2050 climate neutrality goal, the European Union (EU) is determined to decarbonise its most greenhouse gas (GHG)...
6/24/2025 3:46:10 PM Roadmap for EU Defence Consolidation: Guidance on M&A and State aid in the EU Commission’s Defence Readiness Omnibus By Andreas von Bonin Thomas Janssens Katharina Kunert Edward Dean Conor Leavy +2 more... Show less The European Commission (EC) recently unveiled its Defence Readiness Omnibus (the Omnibus), an initiative designed to reduce regulatory...
5/19/2025 10:43:04 AM The European Court of Justice rules on the parallel imposition requirement in exclusive distribution networks: the importance of evidence By Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson Tone Oeyen Paul van den Berg Thomas Lübbig Rory Jones Laure de Chalendar +3 more... Show less On 8 May 2025, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) gave its preliminary ruling in the Beevers Kaas v Albert Heijn dispute, a case...
5/15/2025 11:42:41 AM Time to catch up: EU reopens the rulebook on mergers and seeks feedback By Paul van den Berg Mary Lehner Colin Raftery Jan Jeram Tuna Tanik Koo Asakura Emily Strickland Jonas Levermann +5 more... Show less Mounting pressure to refresh merger guidelines When the European Commission (Commission) introduced its first guidelines on the...
5/8/2025 11:47:24 AM Spain judicial reform: DR Madrid office By Laura Lozano Authored by the DR Madrid team On 3 January 2025, the Official State Gazette published the Organic Law 1/2025, of 2 January, on measures...
5/5/2025 3:35:13 PM German Election #8 – What real estate investors need to know about the new coalition agreement By Timo Elsner Julia Haas Gerrit Beckhaus Niko Schultz-Süchting Jan Matauschek +2 more... Show less In Germany, a new administration is about to come into office following the 2025 federal elections. Friedrich Merz, leader of the...