The European Court of Justice has rejected Italmobiliare's appeal against a €35.9 million fine for its subsidiary's involvement in three food packaging tray cartels, concluding that it held a decisive influence over the company.
A Spanish court has gone against thousands of decisions awarding damages to victims of the EU trucks cartel, holding that Daimler has proven that the collusion did not increase the price of trucks sold to end-consumers in Spain.
An Egyptian court has fined five of the country’s major poultry brokers more than €8 million for colluding to fix the price of chicken to the detriment of consumers and chicken breeders.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally blocked FNZ's completed acquisition of GBST for a second time, although it said the former could buy back some of the latter’s assets after …
The Turkish Competition Authority has fined Google €30.7 million and ordered it to remedy the alleged preferencing of its own services in the local search service and accommodation price comparison markets.
Russia’s antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into Yandex over suspicions the company is abusing its dominance in the search engine market by prioritising search results for its own products.
The Department of Justice’s antitrust division has side-lined a controversial conduct review letter that the Trump administration issued to a standard-setting organisation, in a sign that the agency might be willing to adjust its approach to intellectual property issues.
There is substantial evidence to support the Federal Trade Commission’s conclusion that a pay-for-delay settlement between Endo Pharmaceuticals and Impax Laboratories violated federal antitrust law, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled.
The House Judiciary Committee ran a legislative markup marathon yesterday, debating amendments to various legislative proposals from 10am until the wee hours of this morning. The digital platforms report published by House antitrust subcommittee staff in October served as the final act. Several Republican members unsuccessfully pushed for changes condemning “anti-conservative bias” on the part of large technology companies while multiple Democrats sang praises for subcommittee chair David Cicilline and …
Cambodia is still set to take its seat at the table of Association of Southeast Asian Nations that have a competition law. The country is continuing its push toward implementing antitrust legislation, as it remains the only country in ASEAN without one. We’re off next week but will be back in your inbox the following Friday with all the latest from around the Asia-Pacific region.
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The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a ground-breaking decision in the litigation between doormakers Jeld-Wen and Steves and Son, confirming a divestiture order in a private merger …
In an exclusive commentary for GCR, John Penrose MP discusses his review of the UK’s competition regime and explains why his report published today recommends that the country’s antitrust authority take on …
Christopher Vajda QC stepped down from his role as a judge at the European Court of Justice following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020. He returned to …
Lawmakers in Germany have passed far-reaching reforms to the nation’s competition laws, which give its antitrust enforcer sweeping new powers to challenge the behaviour of the major digital platforms. Janith Aranze and …
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