Region: Spain

Orange and MasMovil have tapped Latham & Watkins, Pérez Llorca, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Gide Loyrette Nouel to steer the €18.6 billion merger of Spain's second and fourth-largest mobile network operators.

26 July 2022

Spain’s competition authority has fined six of the country’s leading construction companies a combined €203.6 million after finding they rigged thousands of public tenders for construction and civil projects over a 25-year period.

07 July 2022

The European Court of Justice has ruled that claimants seeking damages from the EU trucks cartel cannot rely on the statute of limitation provisions under the damages directive for conduct that took place before the legislation was transposed into national law.

22 June 2022

RBB Economics has snagged Miguel de la Mano from Compass Lexecon, while Latham & Watkins has hired new counsel and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has promoted an associate in Brussels.

21 June 2022

The World Padel Tour has responded to an EU competition complaint challenging its purportedly unlawful exclusivity requirements with a lawsuit alleging that the world padel governing body and players’ association are trying to push it out of the market in favour of their own rival league.

31 May 2022

Spain’s competition enforcer has fined the country’s leading dog association for banning its own judges from participating in rivals’ shows and restricting dog owners from obtaining purebred certification if they were registered with rival associations.

26 May 2022

Spain’s competition enforcer has accused two funeral service providers it previously fined for gun-jumping of once again failing to notify separate acquisitions of local funeral homes.

22 April 2022

EU law on the disclosure of evidence in antitrust damages claims could require companies involved in follow-on litigation to compile and produce brand new documents, an advocate general at the European Court of Justice has said.

07 April 2022

Spain’s antitrust enforcer has fined three steel producers over €24 million for operating a scrap iron purchasing cartel that informed each other about planned factory shutdowns with a view to strengthening their negotiating positions with sellers.

14 March 2022

Spain’s antitrust watchdog has fined the country’s incumbent postal service €32.6 million for unlawfully offering exclusive discounts to its corporate customers, four years after the Supreme Court overturned a smaller fine against the company for similar conduct.

24 February 2022