Darach Connolly

Darach Connolly , Michael Klöcker , Satu-Anneli Kauranen , Edouard Sarrazin , Zoltán Marosi , Alessandro Boso Caretta , Martijn van Wanroij , Erik Brändt Öfverholm , Kjetil Johansen (DLA Piper) , Jo Kane , Daniel Colgan (DLA Piper)

Predictably Uncertain: Managing merger control call-in risk at local level in the EU

April 1, 2025

Fragmented Merger Control Landscape in Europe People like certainty. That is especially true for M&A dealmaking. Clear thresholds and parameters around regulatory approvals give dealmakers…

Darach Connolly (DLA Piper) , Jo Kane (DLA Piper)

Competition Law and Policy Developments 2023 - Ireland

March 8, 2024

2023 was a watershed moment in competition law in Ireland with the start of a new civil fines regime. A further wave of EU and Irish rules enhanced powers for the CCPC and ComReg, created two new…

Darach Connolly (DLA Piper)

Ireland adopts major changes to competition rules

July 1, 2022

On 29 June 2022, Ireland enacted major reforms to its Competition Act. These changes will impact on all sectors across the Irish economy, with potential target industries such as Life Sciences,…

Darach Connolly (DLA Piper) , Richard Jenkinson (DLA Piper UK) , Daniel Wojtczak (DLA Piper Belgium) , Alina Lacatus (DLA Piper Romania)

Learning the Lessons on Excessive Pricing from Aspen

June 1, 2021

Back in April 2017, The Times ran a story detailing how a drug giant had a “secret plan” to destroy a cancer medicine unless large price rises were agreed to by national purchasing authorities. A…

Bertold Bär-Bouyssiere (DLA Piper Belgium) , Alina Lacatus (DLA Piper Romania) , Darach Connolly (DLA Piper) , Jacob Borum (DLA Piper Denmark)

Aspen: Quick Fix But Missed Opportunity

October 23, 2020

What are commitments? The recent effort by the Commission to settle the Aspen case suggests that commitment decisions are the preferred route to settle complex excessive pricing cases at EU-level…