Expert witnesses in competition cases should rely on the same data sources when presenting evidence and only cite peer-reviewed literature to support their arguments, so as to improve wider transparency, a judge at the Court of Appeal of England and Wales has said.
The Competition Commission of India has fined United Breweries, Carlsberg and eight of their executives a total of 9 billion rupees (€104 million) for price-fixing, collectively restricting supplies and dividing the country’s beer market.
Mexico’s antitrust watchdog has fined more than a dozen top-tier football clubs and the country’s soccer federation for imposing salary caps and restricting player movement in the authority’s first-ever no-poach probe.
Australia’s competition tsar Rod Sims has said the government’s privatisation of the country’s largest toll road illustrates a near-sighted policy that harms competition for bidding on such assets in future.
Google has urged an Indian court to block any further confidentiality breaches from the Competition Commission of India’s investigative unit, after a leaked report over the weekend accused the company of abuse …
An Australian judge has allowed the country’s competition watchdog to rely on a pair of handwritten call logs as evidence in its trial against a major steel manufacturer accused of trying to …
Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has told career staff and her fellow commissioners that she intends to broaden the scope of the agency’s mission far beyond that of previous administrations.
The State of California has ordered Providence Group and Plum Holdings to divest assets to address the alleged anticompetitive effects of their proposed tie-up, signalling that the state is prepared to flex its antitrust enforcement muscles.
Federal Trade Commission member Christine Wilson has claimed that her agency’s apparent lack of interest in transparency could affect its influence worldwide.
Holly from Hollywood has a great ring to it, but the curtain has closed on Holly Vedova’s acting career. Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has scrapped the “acting” from Vedova’s title as director of the Bureau of Competition. In other Holly-related news, HollyFrontier has received a second request for its proposed acquisition of a gasoline rival.
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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 …
ValueLicensing, a UK-based reseller of pre-owned Microsoft software, filed a standalone claim in the High Court of England and Wales in April seeking upwards of £270 million in damages from Microsoft. The …
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