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Brazil’s public prosecutor has launched a €2.3 billion civil damages claim against members of an orange juice price-fixing conspiracy, just three months after an appellate court rejected a similar claim as time-barred.

09 March 2023

The EU’s highest court has annulled the European Commission’s dawn raids on supermarket chains Intermarché and Casino as the agency failed to record interviews it relied on as evidence to justify the searches before launching a formal probe.

09 March 2023

Legislation to beef up the UK’s digital competition regime is unlikely to be passed by the end of next year’s Parliamentary session, the former head of the country’s antitrust enforcer has said.

09 March 2023

The “incremental gain” from resolving competition concerns in matters that involve the use of data could be outweighed by the loss of privacy, an official at the US Federal Trade Commission has said.

09 March 2023

The European Commission is assessing how it can set up joint investigative teams with members of national competition authorities to enforce the Digital Markets Act, Olivier Guersent and Thomas Kramler have said.

09 March 2023

The director-general of the EU’s competition authority has rejected calls from telecommunications companies to more easily allow concentration in the sector, warning that mergers between operators in the same country “merit careful scrutiny”.

09 March 2023

A US Department of Justice official has said the tactics used by monopolists in the digital economy are not different to those used by the original robber barons.

09 March 2023

Peru’s antitrust watchdog is investigating Visa over allegations that it has abused its dominance by imposing fees on rival transaction processing services that offer consumers a cheaper alternative to making international payments.

08 March 2023

Canada’s Competition Tribunal has mostly upheld a challenge by the country’s antitrust agency against the already-completed merger of two waste disposal companies, in what lawyers say is a rare win for the enforcer that could shape the process of proposed reforms to national competition law.

08 March 2023

Mark Garden has left ENSafrica after 23 years to join Webber Wentzel as a partner in Johannesburg.

08 March 2023