Topic: Brexit

A senior official at the UK’s antitrust agency has said he hopes the enforcer will sign a cooperation agreement with the European Commission by the end of this year, but warned that companies could face parallel investigations in the future.

12 November 2020

The chief executive of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has said his agency will look to its counterparts in Japan, Canada, Australia and Brazil as “benchmarks” for what kind of enforcer it wants to be as it prepares to take on more global cases post-Brexit.

10 November 2020

Local lawyers have said the UK antitrust watchdog’s draft revised merger guidance is a sign that the enforcer is “ramping up” its enforcement as it prepares to take on more multijurisdictional deals at the end of the Brexit withdrawal period.

09 November 2020

The interim chair of the UK’s antitrust enforcer has warned of a likely uptick in competition law violations as the country prepares for its formal exit from the EU amidst the coronavirus crisis.

04 November 2020

A former judge at the European Court of Justice has warned that the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union could cause both jurisdictions to diverge on abuse of dominance enforcement and lead to conflicting appellate court rulings.

03 November 2020

The UK government will follow World Trade Organization rules on subsidy control after the country leaves the European Union at the end of this year.

10 September 2020

The EU and the UK are set to discuss competition policy as part of post-Brexit negotiations, but their governments have different ideas about how competition rules should straddle the Channel.

05 February 2020