As noted by Executive Vice-President Vestager, “if something happens every 25 years, it deserves attention.[1]” Last Friday, the European...
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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...
After months of waiting, the UK government has now introduced into Parliament the text of the hotly anticipated Digital Markets,...
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down its judgment in Towercast on 16 March 2023, confirming Advocate General Juliane Kokott’s...
In its judgment of 1 December 2022 (the Judgement), the Council of State (CdS) – which is the Supreme administrative court in Italy –...
The question of how best to capture and test non-reportable acquisitions that are nonetheless deemed as meriting review is one the...
A quick summary “Retained EU law” governing financial services will be revoked. But, with some exceptions, its substance will largely be...
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On 12 May 2022, the European Court of Justice (the Court) issued its ruling in Servizio Elettrico Nazionale and Others (C-377/20), in...
The second of our two-part blog on the draft implementing rules (see part one on merger control here), published by the State...
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...
In a recent preliminary ruling, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recognised a natural person’s right to silence in insider-dealing...
Spoofing – flooding the market with orders that traders do not intend to execute to trick others into moving prices in a desired...