Two Newcastle United Football Club supporters have claimed that the English Premier League’s review into a proposed £300 million acquisition of the team, which involved Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, was anticompetitive.
The European Commission has issued a statement of objections to state-owned Czech railway operator České dráhy for allegedly charging predatory prices.
The chief executive of Singapore’s competition watchdog has said that her agency’s guidance from 2018 on airline mergers and alliances remains valid even as the covid-19 pandemic has brought the industry to its knees.
A hotly-anticipated internal report has urged Pakistan’s competition watchdog to launch proceedings against the country’s main sugar association and several sugar producers after claiming that cartelisation has run rampant in the market …
EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said the agency’s proposed new market investigation powers will help harmonise intervention in digital markets across member states, as she warned about the risks of disparate …
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has launched an investigation into Amazon and Apple over suspicions that the companies entered into an agreement that prevented third-party retailers from selling Apple’s products on Amazon Marketplace.
The Federal Trade Commission is unlikely to challenge Sanford Health’s planned merger with Intermountain Healthcare, but the transaction may invite agency scrutiny following recent academic research, former FTC attorneys have said.
Former vice president Joe Biden believes far more action is needed to address the nation’s “growing problem” of monopoly power, a senior advisor to the campaign has said.
If at first you don’t succeed, buy, buy again. Sanford Health’s last two major merger attempts fell apart following a long legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission and a merging company that backed out of their deal after 18 months of negotiations. But Sanford is not giving up on its dream to consolidate the health system market, announcing plans last week to combine with Intermountain Healthcare. Former FTC attorneys …
There are still some places in the world without a competition law at all. In the case of Pakistan, major players in almost every industry have spent the past decade challenging the constitutionality of the country’s competition act, which the antitrust watchdog says has hampered its enforcement efforts. The Lahore High Court this week upheld the constitutional validity of the law, but with 90 cases and even more petitioners involved …
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As economies around the world ground to a halt because of covid-19, the role of competition enforcers was cast under a new spotlight. Charley Connor explores if the crisis has undermined the …
Combining competition and consumer protection powers has been a popular fit for some antitrust enforcers, but no two agencies have adopted exactly the same mould. Ben Remaly and Julie Masson look at …
Understanding that competition and consumer issues are intertwined and using that approach to take on the large digital platforms forms the core of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Rod Sims’ message. …
As issues around antitrust, consumer protection and privacy become increasingly blurred, two cases involving similar conduct against Facebook in Italy and Germany demonstrate the different routes authorities can take to tackle the …
A crisis of competence amidst the coronavirus crisis • Two mandates, one goal • More than competition • Friends or acquaintances? • A Q&A with Christine Wilson • New Zealand’s competition bar • Turkey’s competition bar • GCR Live Interactive - Asia-Pacific
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