Pakistan’s Supreme Court has allowed the country's competition agency to resume its market study into the cooking oil and ghee sector but it will continue to assess the legality of the inquiry.
Google has modified the commitments it has offered to end the UK antitrust enforcer’s probe into planned changes on its Chrome browser, after businesses in the digital advertising sector raised several concerns with the company’s original proposal.
More than half of the respondents that participated in the EU’s public consultation on the draft Vertical Block Exemption Regulation said that proposals to lower the thresholds for dual distribution exemptions would have “negative or very negative” effects on competition.
The European Council has approved the Digital Markets Act with several amendments, moving the EU one step closer to ratifying new rules that would curb the power of big technology companies.
Gleiss Lutz is opening a new office in London, headed up by veteran partner Wolfgang Bosch.
The $5 billion merger of Cargotec and Konecranes is likely to harm competition in seven separate markets in the container handling sector, the UK’s competition watchdog has concluded.
The Department of Justice has sued to block US Sugar’s proposed acquisition of a rival sugar refiner, alleging that the transaction would leave wholesale customers in the southeastern US “at the mercy of a cozy duopoly”.
The Department of Justice has failed to prove that an alliance between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways will have “actual adverse effects”, both airlines have argued before a federal Massachusetts court.
A federal judge in Colorado is grappling with whether the government can criminally prosecute Denver-based DaVita over an alleged no-poach agreement.
Jonathan Kanter is taking on a sugar merger in the Antitrust Division’s first enforcement action since he became assistant attorney general last week. The action appears to indicate the Biden administration’s continued focus on competition in the agriculture industry. The Department of Justice has settled two mergers already this year that were focused in this area: in Zen-Noh Grain/Bunge and Danfoss/Eaton. We’re off tomorrow for Thanksgiving, but will be back …
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Isolde Goggin retired as president of Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on 4 October. She spoke to GCR about the difficulties of operating as an enforcer without an effective sanctions regime, …
With almost five years as president of the Portuguese Competition Authority under her belt, Margarida Matos Rosa spoke to Charley Connor about the agency’s recent forays into labour markets, the importance of …
Alejandra Palacios Prieto stepped down as head of Mexico’s Federal Economic Competition Commission last week after eight years at the helm. In a wide ranging interview with GCR, she spoke about controversial …
On 9 July 2021, the Joe Biden administration in the US passed an “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” proposing sweeping changes aimed at causing a fundamental shift in …
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