Conference Coverage
Guersent and Régibeau to join GCR Live Big Brussels
07 July 2020
The director general and the chief economist of the EU’s antitrust enforcer are set to speak at GCR’s 12th annual Big Brussels conference in September, alongside officials from agencies in the US and UK.
Mundt raises concerns over data access remedies
06 July 2020
Requiring big technology companies to hand over or share data to remedy anticompetitive conduct could be hard to implement, the head of Germany’s antitrust enforcer has said.
Excessive pricing is evidence of dominance, UK official says
10 June 2020
The ability to charge excessive prices during coronavirus is evidence in itself of dominance and potential abusive conduct, the chief economic advisor at the UK’s antitrust enforcer has said in praising a controversial decision by South Africa’s Competition Tribunal.
EU competition official would consider merger ban
10 June 2020
The European Commission should not rule out a temporary ban on large mergers due to the covid-19 pandemic, its chief competition economist Pierre Régibeau has said.
Vestager: EU may introduce competition rules for “digital gatekeepers”
24 April 2020
The European Commission is considering imposing legal obligations on gatekeepers of digital platforms to remedy or prevent “commercial imbalances”, the EU’s competition commissioner has said.
DG Comp official: EU is considering “restorative or prescriptive” antitrust remedies
24 April 2020
A senior official at the European Commission has said it is considering whether it needs to impose broader remedies in antitrust cases that go beyond the usual “cease and desist” requirements.
Competition proceedings “undermined” by government intervention, African practitioners allege
22 April 2020
Lawyers in South Africa and Botswana are concerned that government ministers’ interventions in merger control and antitrust probes are undermining the competition law process.
Coronavirus will likely lead to more cartels, ex-DOJ official warns
21 April 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to lead to an increase in cartels and global cartel enforcement, a former enforcer at the US Department of Justice has said.
CMA chairman: digitisation requires “major adjustments” to competition policy
04 March 2020
The chairman of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority has urged enforcers to make greater use of “soft power” tools such as international cooperation to better respond to the challenges of digitisation.
Focus on merger control to combat big tech, enforcers urge
03 March 2020
Most of the complaints that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority receives stem from a past merger that has had subsequent market effects, the enforcer’s chief executive has said.