Plaintiff law firm Hausfeld is spearheading a proposed class action against Google that seeks almost £1 billion on behalf of 19.5 million UK consumers that allegedly overpaid for in-app content as a result of the company’s application store restrictions.
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has hit Advanz Pharma and its two former owners with more than £100 million in fines for overcharging the country’s national health service for thyroid medication liothyronine over an eight-year period.
Counsel to an aluminium manufacturer accusing Shell and a rival fuel provider of colluding to fix diesel prices argued that several pricing anomalies are evidence that an illegal agreement was in place.
The European Commission has cleared Orange’s €268 million acquisition of Telekom Romania, subject to the latter divesting its 30% minority shareholding in Telekom Romania Mobile Communications.
Papua New Guinea’s antitrust watchdog has provisionally blocked the proposed sale of Westpac’s domestic banking business to Kina Securities, citing concerns that the deal would reduce the number of commercial banks operating …
France’s Competition Authority has opened a public consultation to determine the correct relevant market applying to its investigation of a deal in the temperature-controlled goods transport sector.
The Department of Justice is requiring Gray Television to sell 10 television stations to proceed with its $925 million purchase of rival Quincy Media.
Recent changes at the Federal Trade Commission could “remove the relative clarity on what actions may trigger antitrust scrutiny” and how US competition enforcers will conduct investigations, a former FTC official has warned.
A federal Kansas judge has dismissed a pharmacy operator’s putative class action accusing Mylan and Pfizer of illegally monopolising the market for epinephrine auto-injectors used to treat severe allergic reactions.
This time last year, the heads of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple were testifying before a Congressional committee equipped with pointed questions and unflattering documents. The antitrust fates of these four companies have see-sawed over the past year, with Facebook emerging as the first all-out battleground. On Thursday, a New York-led coalition of state enforcers asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reinstate their …
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Hogan Lovells’ Global Cartel Investigations Group sketches out its views on likely trends in post-pandemic antitrust that are expected to shape antitrust enforcement in the coming years and what this means for …
India’s competition authority issued an interim order against booking platform MakeMyTrip in early March, forcing it to immediately relist two budget hotel chains it removed as part of an alleged anticompetitive agreement …
Kazuyuki Furuya took over as chair of Japan’s Fair Trade Commission in September 2020. He spoke to GCR about the agency’s focus on digital platforms, its review of Google’s acquisition of Fitbit …
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 …
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