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UK appellate court overturns CAT communications ban

A UK appellate court has overturned the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s ruling to block unsupervised communications between defendants and class members in a roll-on, roll-off collective claim.

Vestager returns to EU competition role

Margrethe Vestager will return to the European Commission as antitrust chief after losing the race to head the European Investment Bank.

Microsoft/OpenAI partnership prompts CMA scrutiny

Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI is facing an investigation from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to determine whether the “close, multifaceted relationship” constitutes a notifiable merger.

Spanish enforcer raids pharmaceutical distribution market

Spain’s antitrust watchdog is investigating multiple unnamed drugmakers over suspected illegal information exchange following dawn raids last week.

EU needs “period of reflection” over state aid tax cases, commission lawyer says

The European Commission needs to reflect over its mixed success in state aid tax cases, its in-house legal counsel has said.

Google is a digital East India Company, complainant argues

Google’s user choice billing programme is a watered-down version of a policy India’s antitrust watchdog has already found to be abusive, the chief executive of a popular Indian wedding app has said.

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NCAA antitrust suits pile up

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is facing mounting antitrust problems with seven US states accusing it of allegedly orchestrating a no-poach conspiracy and a proposed class of students challenging its rules restricting the ability of schools to pay athletes to play.

California hospitals accuse FTC of gerrymandering market

The Federal Trade Commission deliberately defined its geographic antitrust market to exclude three major hospitals, California-based John Muir Health has said.

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UK government does not “cut and paste” remedies in FIC cases, head of ISU says

Remedies under the UK foreign investment regime are tailored to the transaction and will not involve a “cut and paste” from other decisions, the head of the country’s Investment Screening Unit has said.

CFIUS orders Saudi fund to divest stake in AI company

A Saudi Aramco venture capital firm has sold its stake in Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence chip startup Rain AI following a foreign investment review.

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Interviews and Analysis

A Q&A with Sarah Cardell

Is the conditional clearance of Microsoft/Activision a climbdown that risks undermining the UK’s competition watchdog and its independent Phase II regime or does it signal that the world’s toughest merger enforcer will …

A Q&A with NZCC chair John Small

John Small took over as chair of New Zealand’s Commerce Commission in December 2022. He spoke with GCR about paying close attention to proposed merger reforms in Australia, using competition tools to …

Rahat Hassan: the exit interview

Rahat Hassan stepped down as chair of the Competition Commission of Pakistan today after a three-year term. She spoke to GCR about struggling to enforce antitrust laws without a quorum of commissioners …

A long telegram to the next EU competition commissioner

Margrethe Vestager’s second term as EU competition commissioner is due to expire at the end of next year. Following the recent announcement that the Danish government has put her forward as a …

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UK court fast-tracks FRAND determination of Panasonic’s 4G portfolio

Featured in SEP/FRAND Hub 2023/2024

The High Court of Justice has expedited the FRAND trial in proceedings brought by Panasonic against Xiaomi and …

A Practitioner’s Perspective on Negotiating Remedies

Featured in Merger Remedies Guide - Fifth Edition

The key aspects of an effective remedy strategy include the planning process, trade-offs in the divestiture process, conducting …

Italy: Antitrust Pioneer Continues to Break Ground on Theories of Harm

Featured in The Guide to Life Sciences - Second Edition

Italy is a frontrunner when it comes to enforcement of antitrust law in the pharma space. AGCM efforts …

GCR Enforcer Hub

GCR Enforcer Hub brings together critical information about the world’s competition enforcement agencies from both the legal and economist perspectives.