Work Area: Unilateral Conduct

A Spanish court has awarded a hotel group €1.1 million in a hybrid follow-on and standalone damages lawsuit seeking compensation from a media royalty collection association for charging discriminatory and excessive fees.

08 February 2023

A pair of influential trade groups have urged the Competition Commission of India to investigate Samsung over alleged exclusive offers on its own platform that are impossible for smaller retailers to match.

08 February 2023

The Indian government has tapped the head of the country's competition authority and four prominent antitrust lawyers to join a committee examining the need for new regulation governing digital markets.

07 February 2023

A complainant in the Competition Commission of India’s probe into Google’s Play Store billing practices has accused the technology company of failing to adhere to a suite of remedies the agency imposed in two separate infringement decisions.

06 February 2023

A consumer rights advocate has asked the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to combine standalone and follow-on damages claims against multiple musical instrument manufacturers for alleged resale price maintenance after filing the country’s first proposed RPM collective action last year.

01 February 2023

A court in Madrid has reimposed an order on UEFA and FIFA that temporarily prevents them from penalising clubs or players that attempted to join the European Super League, branding their claims of protecting the European sporting model a “flimsy excuse”.

01 February 2023

A former New York City transit worker has pleaded guilty to a single wire fraud charge after the Department of Justice accused him of submitting anticompetitive bids to purchase the city’s used vehicles.

01 February 2023

The chair of Malaysia’s antitrust watchdog has responded “to the grave allegations” made by a major industry association that it failed to stop anticompetitive conduct by a toll road monopolist, insisting that the alleged conduct falls outside of its remit.

31 January 2023

The Department of Justice cannot reopen an investigation into claims that the largest US trade association for real estate brokers unlawfully restrained competition by encouraging its members to hide commission rates, a federal court has held.

26 January 2023

The Dutch competition authority has launched a preliminary investigation to determine if three pharmaceutical companies are tying their services and charging excessive prices to both healthcare and insurance providers.

25 January 2023