Chinese lawmakers have amended the country’s antitrust law, including sharply increasing maximum fines for various infringements, introducing personal liability for anticompetitive conduct and clarifying the framework for assessing resale price maintenance.
The UK’s business secretary has said he is “minded to accept” undertakings offered by defence, aerospace and communications company Cobham Ultra Acquisitions to allay national security concerns regarding its proposed acquisition of defence company Ultra Electronics.
Austria's Supreme Court has confirmed a lower court’s decision that conditionally cleared Meta’s already-completed €340 million acquisition of Giphy, rejecting the national competition authority’s bid to unwind the deal.
Readers have until Friday to submit nominations for GCR’s inaugural Antitrust Academics survey, which will recognise the world’s top scholars in the field of competition law.
Israel’s antitrust watchdog has blocked a wine supplier and distributor’s takeover of a rival after its in-depth probe found the merged entity would gain dominant control in the markets for the supply …
Euclid Law has hired Andrea Zulli from Covington & Burling as a partner to head its office in Brussels.
Plaintiffs alleging Varsity Brands and its affiliates have illegally monopolised the market for cheerleading competitions and uniforms are urging a federal Tennessee court to let their claims go to trial.
A federal judge has declined to dismiss a monopolisation case brought by several pharmacies against e-prescription company Surescripts.
Pennsylvania state lawmakers are considering a bill that would drastically ease the standards for pleading a price-fixing conspiracy and create the first antitrust whistleblower programme in the US.
Costco is your one-stop-shop for purchasing items in absurdly large quantities but it is also apparently offering novel discovery strategies in antitrust claims. According to a federal court in Chicago, the big-box retailer may have tried to circumvent confidentiality obligations in the Broiler Chicken antitrust litigation by subpoenaing itself. Also in Tipline, a Department of Justice official goes after antitrust misconceptions.
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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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