Topic: Coronavirus

San Miguel’s acquisition of LafargeHolcim’s Philippine business will not proceed after the country’s competition watchdog failed to meet a deadline to clear the deal due to the covid-19 pandemic.

12 May 2020

In a national emergency where the daily death toll is in the thousands and the economy is weakening, the legal justification for joint activity is extremely high, a partner at White & Case has said.

12 May 2020

Nivea, Johnson & Johnson and Carrefour are among the 29 companies that Turkey’s Competition Authority is investigating for allegedly inflating prices during the covid-19 pandemic.

11 May 2020

Brazil’s antitrust enforcer has accepted behavioural remedies to clear Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets for the second time, as the coronavirus pandemic complicated the attempted divestment of Fox Sports.

11 May 2020

Mondo Mazwai was appointed to head the Competition Tribunal of South Africa last year, becoming its first female and first black chairperson. She spoke to Emily Craig about responding to the coronavirus pandemic, female representation in antitrust and why the tribunal has overturned a series of decisions by the country’s Competition Commission.

11 May 2020

Easing competition rules during the coronavirus pandemic is a short-term trade-off that would cause a slower economic recovery, a senior official at the European Commission said today.

06 May 2020

JD Sports has called the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to block its takeover of Footasylum “prejudged and erroneous”, particularly in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

06 May 2020

The UK judge presiding over Daimler’s follow-on claim against EU roll-on roll-off cartelists has distilled the difficulties of running competition law cases during the covid-19 pandemic as he ruled on a disclosure dispute.

05 May 2020

EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has rejected a request from Austrian politicians to suspend European state aid rules during the coronavirus pandemic.

01 May 2020