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Former US Federal Trade Commission member Joshua Wright failed to sufficiently allege that two previous students accusing him of sexual harassment made defamatory statements against him, a Virginia state judge has said.

01 December 2023

A Football Association tribunal has found that FIFA’s controversial proposal to restrict football agent fees breaches UK competition rules.

01 December 2023

Turkey’s Competition Authority has launched a sprawling investigation into 19 companies, including AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Panasonic, for allegedly forming no-poach agreements in the pharmaceutical sector.

01 December 2023

Canada’s government has proposed new competition law amendments that would introduce significant merger control changes, including banning parties from closing a tie-up before an injunction ruling and extending the limitation period for challenging non-notifiable deals.

01 December 2023

Linklaters and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner have promoted two antitrust specialists to their partnerships in London.

01 December 2023

Power tool supplier Techtronic Industries illegally entered into agreements with independent dealers and buying groups to set minimum resale prices, an Australian court has held.

01 December 2023

Consideration should be given to amending Australia’s cartel provisions as the current drafting makes it too hard for juries to understand and convict what are often straightforward offences, a leading judge has said.

30 November 2023

Veolia’s German subsidiary can acquire a waste management rival subject to an upfront buyer remedy, the Federal Cartel Office has said.

30 November 2023

Switzerland’s Competition Commission has dawn raided several construction companies operating in a northwestern state as part of another bid-rigging cartel probe.

30 November 2023

Proposed changes to Australia’s merger control regime will discourage dealmakers from increasingly providing inaccurate or inadequate information during reviews by the country’s competition watchdog, one of its commissioners has said.

30 November 2023