Work Area: Vertical Restraints

A UK-based reseller of pre-owned Microsoft software is seeking at least £270 million from the technology company to account for damages that it claims it suffered as a result of Microsoft’s abuse of dominance.

08 April 2021

An Austrian court has banned Peugeot from tying dealer compensation to certain sales requirements and from subsidising vehicle prices at its own sales outlets, ruling that the car manufacturer ran afoul of national and EU competition rules.

01 April 2021

The judge presiding over the US government’s monopolisation lawsuit against Google has continued to express some unease about the breadth of information the Department of Justice is requesting from the company.

31 March 2021

The Turkish Competition Authority has become the latest antitrust enforcer to penalise Unilever for imposing exclusivity requirements on distributors that sold its ice cream brands, hitting the company with a €51.6 million fine.

23 March 2021

The Hungarian Competition Authority has reached a settlement with a nail products supplier accused of setting resale prices and including geographical restrictions in contracts with distributors that sold its products to nail salons.

12 March 2021

India’s competition watchdog has ordered booking platform MakeMyTrip to immediately relist two budget hotel chains after finding that the properties were removed as part of an anticompetitive agreement with one of their rivals.

12 March 2021

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa's Competition Commission has said it plans to shift its resources towards "hard enforcement" in its fight against cartels, after a softer approach failed to deter anticompetitive agreements.

05 March 2021

The state of Texas and Google argued on Thursday over appropriate remedies for addressing an apparent leak to the press of an unredacted copy of 10 states’ monopolisation lawsuit against the technology company.

05 February 2021

France’s Competition Authority has accepted Lego’s proposals to amend its discount policy so as not to discriminate against online retailers after the company “substantially modified” its original commitments.

29 January 2021

The European Court of Justice has confirmed that the EU’s antitrust enforcer has the power to seek wide-ranging information from companies under investigation, in a ruling dismissing Qualcomm’s challenge to an information request.

28 January 2021