Francesca McClimont

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• Digital regulation must be tailored to local economies, Meta lawyer says
• Kenyan abuse proposals put antitrust authority and telecoms regulator on collision path
• Singapore to issue sustainability guidelines
• Asian enforcers struggling to hire data experts
• Speedway league and governing body sanctioned in Poland for imposing salary cap
• Mexico investigates cinema sector over collusion concerns
• Spain dawn raids haircare company over RPM
• Supreme Court ends challenge to ro-ro class action certification
• Top Swedish lawyer moves to rival, Vinge hires from Apple and promotes
• South Africa exempts energy supplier cooperation amid load shedding crisis
• Austria remedies online radio streaming deal
• Indonesia fines cooking oil cartel, drops claims against 20 companies
• Portugal accuses food supplement supplier of RPM
• Kramler: DG Comp will not issue complaint rejection decisions under DMA
• “Very significant” increase in leniency filings amid cost of living crisis, DG Comp official says
• Japan raids healthcare software provider
• General Court president warns of added burdens from DMA
• Vestager calls for formal cooperation agreement with CMA
• Chile appoints new competition head
• Dutch enforcer blocks waste processing merger
• Israeli minister calls for top enforcer’s resignation
• A&O to merge with Shearman in $3.4 billion deal
• Sustainability will be included in exclusionary abuse guidelines, DG Comp official says
• Lawmakers push for stricter CMA oversight
• CAT permits DAF to appeal against pass-on assessment in Royal Mail/BT decision
• Telles hires from CS Associados
• Canada must get “serious” about competition, Boswell says
• Saudi Arabia issues second-ever conditional clearance
• Italian court confirms football broadcasting cartel fines
• CMA set to release Sky from behavioural remedy
• France raids SNCF
• Dutch court annuls another healthcare merger block
• Belgium considers first merger block
• Mundt: Loose definition of sustainability threatens apolitical enforcement
• UK appeals court expresses scepticism of third-party trucks cartelists in certification challenge
• Certified trucks cartel claim is riddled with conflicts of interest, appellants argue
• CADE opens novel Google, Meta probes over legislation criticisms
• Brussels court rejects challenge to RTL Belgium takeover
• France imposes interim measures on Meta for “unjustified” ad partnership conditions
• Italy closes Trenitalia abuse probe with data commitments
• CAT urges Apple claimant to seek disclosure to back iPhone abuse claim
• UK appellate judge criticises CAT’s handling of forex carriage dispute
• Certifying UK class actions as opt-out would be “extraordinary”, EU Forex cartelists argue
• Banks attack UK Forex claimants' attempt to rely on post-Brexit EU antitrust decision
• Proskauer poaches from Freshfields in London
• Law firms and economics consultancy name partners
• Austria raids Liebherr over RPM concerns
• Firms promote in Europe, US, Australia and Hong Kong
• EU Damages Directive does not apply to contractual disputes, ECJ rules
• Belgium closes JV probe after parties voluntarily remove conflict concerns

• Ofcom urged to probe telecoms providers for abusive overcharge
• Argentinian court rejects AB InBev subsidiary’s appeal against abuse decision
• Israeli sandal companies withdraw merger following antitrust opposition
• Avianca seeks to modify conditional clearance of tie-up with Viva
• Freshfields expands partnership in London
• Brazil hands down first fine for interim measures breach
• France uses new leniency regime to sanction business data cartel
• Lefosse poaches trio from Demarest
• Dutch court guts forex damages claim over lack of jurisdiction
• CAT eyes possibility of combined ro-ro damages trial in “novel” case management ruling
• Meat inspection provider offers to unwind UK merger
• Italy seeks interim measures against Meta over music licensing spat
• German amendments are “frightening” and “far-reaching”, lawyers say
• Mastercard: Class action certification is a matter of CAT’s “credibility”
• Mastercard questions interchange fee class representative’s independence
• CAT reluctantly accepts late expert evidence in proposed interchange fee class actions
• Kuwait issues record fine under new regime
• Israel looks to revamp competition rules in food sector
• Pritchard swaps Linklaters for Latham
• Indian tribunal largely upholds CCI’s Google Android decision
• Canadian enforcer enters into rare abuse settlement
• Madero takes new role after leaving European Commission
• Dutch court annuls rare deal block
• Microsoft urges CMA to back down from divestment ultimatum in Activision Blizzard deal
• Canadian enforcer bags rare win in waste disposal merger challenge
• Kenya probes online food delivery market
• Nigeria considers rare remedy package in financial services tie-up
• EU in “unchartered territory” with new foreign subsidy law, Vestager says
• Viva Air files for insolvency after regulator rejects failing firm defence
• Slovakian enforcer gains new chair
• German and UK antitrust chiefs to headline GCR Live: Antitrust in the Digital Economy
• Pub chains challenge Scottish law for overstepping UK government’s competition remit
• Israeli court asserts jurisdiction over interchange fee class action
• South Africa requests information exchange remedies in insurance joint venture
• Polish court upholds first-ever successful merger appeal
• EU closes preliminary Coca-Cola probe
• Austria seeks more fines in construction cartel probe
• France sends Electrolux SO after decade-long probe
• Germany agrees divestment remedies in dairy deal without upfront buyer
• Avianca/Viva gets in-depth look after deal block overturned
• UK tribunal denies submission of foreign judgments in Qualcomm class action
• Indian Supreme Court allows beer cartel appeal
• EU accepts referral request to review Adobe/Figma
• Austrian court dismisses dawn raid challenge
• UK claimant settles final trucks damages claim
• EU opens in-depth review into in-flight wifi merger
• A Q&A with Liza Lovdahl Gormsen
• Israel conditionally clears credit card buyout
• EU clears major digital advertising joint venture between telecom giants
• TikTok hires from Freshfields