Topic: Price fixing

The UK’s specialist competition tribunal has rejected a request by defendants in the roll-on, roll-off collective proceedings to send voluntary disclosure letters to certain class members, ruling that such an approach puts “the cart before the horse”.

15 November 2023

Media reports and a leniency agreement have led Hong Kong’s Competition Commission to accuse one of the territory’s largest real estate agencies of illegally fixing commission rates.

15 November 2023

Fronius International and two of its distribution partners have agreed to pay nearly €4.4 million in fines to settle allegations in Austria that they colluded to fix prices in the welding technology market.

02 November 2023

The attorney general of Washington, DC, has accused RealPage of orchestrating a price-fixing conspiracy with more than a dozen landlords, marking the first enforcer-led lawsuit challenging the use of these pricing algorithms.

02 November 2023

The European Commission has advised the EU’s top court that FIFA’s new football agent regulations comply with the bloc’s antitrust laws.

01 November 2023

Defendants in the UK’s roll-on, roll-off collective action are seeking permission to communicate directly with members of the class after the UK’s specialist tribunal banned them from pursuing such correspondence without prior approval.

31 October 2023

LG has claimed that now-defunct UK computer manufacturers are "not seeking fair compensation" for the company's involvement in the liquid crystal display cartel, as their estimation of damages is “grossly overinflated”.

30 October 2023

A cartel involving 50 companies illegally rigged bids to provide Denmark's national grid operator with electricity supplies, the country's antitrust enforcer has said.

30 October 2023

Featured in Class actions hub 2022/2023

Key insight into the pleading requirements for conspiracy under the Competition Act has been highlighted in the details of a recent class action case against the global retail giant.

27 October 2023

A drug distributor has avoided a possible €18.4 million cartel fine in Belgium, after the competition watchdog rejected its investigative arm’s recommended sanction and issued a €779,000 penalty.

26 October 2023