19 Mar, 2024 Stocktake on UK DMCC Bill - entering the final stages By Cat Greenwood-Smith Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Kate Collister Martin Dickson Francesca Triggs Marc Robinson +4 more... Show less Last week the House of Lords Report stage concluded for the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill. As the Bill...
15 Feb, 2024 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...
12 Feb, 2024 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...
08 Jan, 2024 The Italian Annual Law on Competition: what’s new? By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Cecilia Carli Irene Indino +2 more... Show less The reform of Italian competition and consumer protection laws – which have already been significantly amended over the past two years –...
25 Sep, 2023 A new toolkit for gender-inclusive competition law By Morag Elwis Nicholas French Kaori Yamada Ermelinda Spinelli Vanessa van Weelden +2 more... Show less Until recently, competition policy has been considered through a gender-neutral lens – focused on “average” consumers, characterised by...
26 Apr, 2023 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,...
21 Mar, 2023 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...
14 Nov, 2022 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...
27 Sep, 2022 Competition law in uncertain times: a proposal for the 11th Amendment to Germany’s Competition Act By Uta Itzen Frank Röhling Thomas Lübbig Ole Schley Marleen Franka Böhm +2 more... Show less Only 20 months after the ink dried on Germany’s Competition Digitisation Act, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate...
15 Sep, 2022 Illumina/Grail: A Tale of Transatlantic Entropy By Thomas Lübbig Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Laura Onken Lauren Vaca Amaryllis Müller Karen Slaney +3 more... Show less This isn’t the first time we’ve written about this US-focused transaction in the innovative markets for next generation gene sequencing...
25 Jul, 2022 China publishes draft implementing rules for merger control regime under the new AML By Hazel Yin Ninette Dodoo Haoyang Zhuo Laurent Bougard +1 more... Show less Alongside China’s new Anti-Monopoly Law (the New AML, see our client briefing on the New AML here), which enters into force on 1 August...
05 Jul, 2022 It’s official: EU’s foreign subsidies regime on its way to become law By Merit Olthoff Laurent Bougard Aytaç Çelebi Pablo Artero Lines +1 more... Show less On 30 June 2022, the three institutions of the European Union (the Commission, the Parliament and the Council) announced their political...