A European Commission official has said it is too early to release further guidance on how the agency will apply its new approach to reviewing deals referred from national competition authorities that fall below EU and national notification thresholds.
The European Commission has banned ten banks – including Barclays and Deutsche Bank – from participating in certain bond sales to fund coronavirus recovery due to their previous cartel involvement.
Spain’s antitrust authority has launched an investigation into some of the country’s biggest banks for allegedly tying certain products or services with covid-19 relief loans provided to companies or freelance workers.
Finland’s turnover thresholds for notifying mergers must be lowered to prevent harmful deals from escaping antitrust scrutiny, the country’s competition watchdog has said.
The Competition Commission of India has provisionally found that the Amateur Baseball Federation of India abused its dominance by telling state baseball associations not to allow their players to participate in tournaments …
The Competition Commission of Pakistan has said that an investigation into the dairy sector has uncovered evidence that three leading trade associations conspired to fix milk prices in Karachi.
President Joe Biden has designated Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission hours after the Senate confirmed her nomination to be a commissioner in a 69-to-28 vote.
An Altria executive has said the company was still “five to six years away” during the summer of 2018 – just months before it reached a deal agreement with rival Juul – from being able to sell a successful e-vapour product.
Taylor Owings, the former chief of staff at the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, has joined Baker Botts’ antitrust team in Washington, DC, as a partner.
Lina Khan moves fast. Within four years of graduating law school, she helped churn out a high-profile Congressional probe into competition in digital markets, taught antitrust at Columbia Law School and earned a nomination to the Federal Trade Commission. As the youngest chair in commission history, Khan drags in a to-do list long enough to stretch across Pennslyvania Avenue and ambitious enough to make your clients’ blood pressure spike. Can …
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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 …
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 …
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