Region: Spain

Spain’s antitrust authority has launched an investigation into some of the country’s biggest banks for allegedly tying certain products or services with covid-19 relief loans provided to companies or freelance workers.

16 June 2021

A Spanish judge has asked the European Court of Justice to clarify whether UEFA and FIFA violated EU competition rules by banning football clubs from participating in the proposed European Super League.

14 May 2021

A Spanish court has gone against thousands of decisions awarding damages to victims of the EU trucks cartel, holding that Daimler has proven that the collusion did not increase the price of trucks sold to end-consumers in Spain.

16 April 2021

Spain’s antitrust enforcer has given a conditional nod to CaixaBank’s €4.3 billion purchase of rival Bankia, clearing the way for the creation of the country’s largest domestic bank.

24 March 2021

Paloma Martínez-Lage has left MLAB Abogados to head Baker McKenzie’s competition team in Madrid.

19 February 2021

Spain's antitrust enforcer has fined the country's only two suppliers of drugs used in nuclear medicine – including a local Novartis subsidiary – for dividing the market and rigging tenders.

09 February 2021

Patricia Liñán has left Bird & Bird to lead ECIJA’s Spanish competition practice in Madrid.

08 February 2021

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Until now, the only real alternative outcomes to a prohibition decision with fines have been decisions to close investigations, finding that no infringement has occurred, or what is known as ‘conventional termination’, in which the competition authorities close a case based on commitments made by the parties.

02 February 2021

Paul Hitchings has left Cuatrecasas after nearly 20 years to launch a specialist competition litigation boutique in Madrid.

26 January 2021

Uría Menéndez and MLAB Abogados in Madrid have promoted lawyers to the partnership, along with German boutique firm Commeo and Allende & Brea in Argentina.

14 January 2021