EU member state government representatives have appointed Osborne Clarke competition partner Steven Verschuur as a judge at the EU’s General Court, while Baker McKenzie has promoted a special counsel to its partnership in Beijing.
The Portuguese Competition Authority has fined five hospitals and their business association €190 million for colluding to fix the prices and certain commercial conditions of public healthcare services for five years.
Ireland’s president has officially approved highly-anticipated amendments to the country’s competition law, giving the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission the power to issue fines for anticompetitive conduct for the first time.
Denmark’s antitrust watchdog has asked a local court to fine a home textiles supply association for entering into a market-sharing agreement with its member retail stores, which marks the first time the …
The EU has moved closer to implementing new rules to curb anticompetitive subsidies from governments outside the bloc, with the European Parliament and European Council reaching a political agreement on the new …
The Romanian government has adopted emergency legislation that empowers the national antitrust authority to investigate unjustified price hikes and abuses of superior bargaining position under its competition law for the first time.
Big tech’s doomsday predictions for the digital platform-focused bills that Congress is considering are overblown, a former head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division has said.
Booz Allen Hamilton and EverWatch illegally agreed to refrain from competition for providing modelling and simulation services to the US National Security Agency, the Department of Justice has alleged in suing to block their merger.
Allegations that the American Board of Radiology illegally tied together its certifications with an annual programme to maintain them are not plausibly supported, a federal appellate court has ruled in affirming a lower court’s dismissal of the case.
It will come as no surprise to readers of GCR USA that the mission of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division is to enforce US antitrust law. There might not be any lawyers to spare at the division, but the enforcer somehow finds a way. The Washington Criminal II section helped secure another fraud conviction this week – a fact the division likely hopes comes to mind the next time …
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Lawmakers confirmed Benoît Cœuré as the new head of France’s Competition Authority in January, following the sudden and unexpected departure of his predecessor, Isabelle de Silva. In an interview with GCR, Cœuré …
At the centre of the intersection between competition law and intellectual property law sits several cases related to third-party keyword bidding on Google Ads. Khaitan & Co partner Anisha Chand, senior associate …
Iskandar Ismail has been chief executive of Malaysia’s Competition Commission since October 2018. In an interview with GCR, he discussed pursuing legal reforms in response to a high-profile loss at Malaysia’s top …
John Fingleton stepped down as chief executive of what was then the UK’s Office of Fair Trading 10 years ago this summer. A decade on, the founder of Fingleton Associates reflects on …
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