Austria’s Cartel Court has issued its largest-ever fine of more than €45 million on two Strabag Group subsidiaries for taking part in a bid-rigging cartel that lasted nearly 15 years.
A review by the EU Ombudsman into the exodus of European Commission officials to private practice could end up deterring talented lawyers from joining the enforcer, antitrust practitioners have warned.
EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has revealed that her agency is scrutinising a decline in leniency applications while also planning multiple dawn raids in the coming months.
An Australian judge has questioned if his order prohibiting Facebook from terminating or suspending access to its platforms to a third-party service provider is in conflict with a US Federal Trade Commission …
Facebook has told an Australian court that a settlement offer made by third party social media services provider Sked Social undermines claims that the platform misused its market power by terminating their …
Canada’s competition commissioner has called for an extensive review of the country’s competition act, with a particular focus on the liberal use of the efficiency defence in merger probes.
At least 35 companies and advocacy groups have lobbied Congress on legislation designed to limit platforms like Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook from prioritising their own products and services, according to recent disclosure forms.
Tickets are still available for GCR Live: Women in Antitrust, which is being held on 4 November at Hotel Washington in Washington, DC.
Antitrust complainants are influenced more by a moral imperative to report misconduct than the threat of retaliation from digital companies whose services they rely upon, the House antitrust subcommittee’s top attorney has said.
The longest wait for a confirmed assistant attorney general for antitrust has just gotten a little longer. The Senate Judiciary Committee had been slated to vote on Thursday on Jonathan Kanter’s nomination to lead the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, but that has now been pushed to next week. The committee’s chair, Senator Dick Durbin, did not elaborate on why. Also in Tipline, the Federal Trade Commission issues one of …
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Isolde Goggin retired as president of Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on 4 October. She spoke to GCR about the difficulties of operating as an enforcer without an effective sanctions regime, …
With almost five years as president of the Portuguese Competition Authority under her belt, Margarida Matos Rosa spoke to Charley Connor about the agency’s recent forays into labour markets, the importance of …
Alejandra Palacios Prieto stepped down as head of Mexico’s Federal Economic Competition Commission last week after eight years at the helm. In a wide ranging interview with GCR, she spoke about controversial …
On 9 July 2021, the Joe Biden administration in the US passed an “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” proposing sweeping changes aimed at causing a fundamental shift in …
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