2/15/2024 2:02:26 PM European Commission adopts a revised Market Definition Notice By Lena Boucon Rory Jones Alvaro Pliego Selie James Aitken Thomas Lübbig +2 more... Show less As noted by Executive Vice-President Vestager, “if something happens every 25 years, it deserves attention.[1]” Last Friday, the European...
2/12/2024 5:24:47 PM New market investigation powers of the Italian Antitrust Authority - Council of State confirms they apply to all economic sectors By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Alberto Galasso +1 more... Show less In its opinion of 29 January 2024, the Italian Council of State (CdS) published its views on the scope of application of the new market...
4/26/2023 12:41:27 PM The wait is over: UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill introduced to Parliament By Sharon Malhi Michele Davis Karen Slaney Justin Chen +1 more... Show less After months of waiting, the UK government has now introduced into Parliament the text of the hotly anticipated Digital Markets,...
3/21/2023 2:42:36 PM Court of Justice confirms yet another tool to tackle non-reportable M&A – but is it all bark and no bite? By Thomas Lübbig Kasia Bojarojc Daniel Wylde Justin Chen Sarah Mitchell +2 more... Show less The European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down its judgment in Towercast on 16 March 2023, confirming Advocate General Juliane Kokott’s...
12/22/2022 8:12:09 AM The highest Italian administrative court finds that anti-competitive impact must be shown for abuse of dominance By Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Gabriele Maria Polito Francesca Incaprera Huerta +1 more... Show less In its judgment of 1 December 2022 (the Judgement), the Council of State (CdS) – which is the Supreme administrative court in Italy –...
11/14/2022 11:53:52 AM Expanding the merger control toolkit - Is this the end of non-reportable M&A for firms that are deemed dominant? By Thomas Lübbig Kasia Bojarojc Daniel Wylde Justin Chen Sarah Mitchell +2 more... Show less The question of how best to capture and test non-reportable acquisitions that are nonetheless deemed as meriting review is one the...
9/28/2022 3:38:02 PM UK revocation of retained EU financial services law By Andrew Marsh A quick summary “Retained EU law” governing financial services will be revoked. But, with some exceptions, its substance will largely be...
8/24/2022 3:34:44 PM ECJ provides further guidance on when the use of customer data by a former legal monopolist is abusive By Michele Davis Alvaro Pliego Selie Sarah Gallagher Shane O'Hanlon +1 more... Show less On 12 May 2022, the European Court of Justice (the Court) issued its ruling in Servizio Elettrico Nazionale and Others (C-377/20), in...
8/11/2022 11:49:44 AM A gamechanger for antitrust compliance in China – SAMR’s draft implementing rules for anti-competitive agreements, abusive conduct and IP rights By Hazel Yin Ninette Dodoo Wenting Ge Tracy Lu Kailun Ji +2 more... Show less The second of our two-part blog on the draft implementing rules (see part one on merger control here), published by the State...
3/15/2021 12:00:00 AM What does the recent FCA enforcement decision on wash trades mean for compliance departments? By Daniel Newton On 3 March, the FCA announced a fine and ban for a market making trader who carried out “wash trades”. The outcome has been widely...
3/9/2021 12:00:00 AM ECJ recognises natural persons' right to silence in insider-dealing proceedings – and carves out undertakings under competition law By Nathalie Colin Tone Oeyen Silvia Van Dyck Victoria Delettre +1 more... Show less In a recent preliminary ruling, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recognised a natural person’s right to silence in insider-dealing...
10/19/2020 12:00:00 AM Spoofing – is the UK FCA catching up with US enforcement trends? By Sharon Grennan Daniel Newton Spoofing – flooding the market with orders that traders do not intend to execute to trick others into moving prices in a desired...