Norway

Heidi Jorkjend (Advokatfirmaet Thommessen) , Siri Teigum , Ingunn Egeland Martinsen (Advokatfirmaet Thommessen) , Eivind J. Vesterkjær (Advokatfirmaet Thommessen)

Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2024 - Norway

December 20, 2024

Introduction and summary The year 2024 brought us a lot of developments in Norwegian competition law, including the largest fine ever imposed by the Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA) for…

Heidi Jorkjend (Advokatfirmaet Thommessen) , Eivind J. Vesterkjær (Advokatfirmaet Thommessen)

Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2023 – Norway

January 17, 2024

The year 2023 witnessed notable developments in Norwegian competition law, including the resolution of four cases in the Norwegian courts, the introduction of new legislative measures addressing…

Heidi Jorkjend (Advokatfirmaet Thommessen) , Trine Siri Dahl , Eivind J. Vesterkjær (Advokatfirmaet Thommessen)

The Norwegian Competition Authority's Prohibition Decision in a Below Threshold Transaction in the Digital Sector (Schibsted/Nettbil) Quashed by the Supreme Court

March 2, 2023

In its judgement on 17 February 2023, Norway's Supreme Court quashed the Norwegian Competition Authority's prohibition of the 2019 acquisition of tech start-up Nettbil by media conglomerate Schibsted…

Marianne Henne Møller , Karoline Narvestad Maurtvedt , Simen Klevstrand (Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS)

Information Exchange in Non-Cartel Cases - A Norwegian Black Swan?

January 12, 2023

Exchanging information with competitors can be a minefield. On 29 November 2022, the Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA) fined Norway’s four largest book publishers and a database provider a total…

Heidi Jorkjend (Advokatfirmaet Thommessen) , Brendan Kettermann (Thommessen)

Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2022 - Norway

December 14, 2022

2022 has been an eventful year for Norwegian competition law, with a landmark judgement from the EFTA court and significant defeats by the competition authority in merger cases amongst other things…

Christian Bergqvist (University of Copenhagen)

Discriminatory Abuse – Time to clear up the ambiguities!

November 3, 2021

The Norwegian Competition Authority has issued a draft paper on abusive (price) discrimination, outlining how the agency plans to approach the matter, which should be most welcome. Essentially, the…

Svein Terje Tveit , Stein Ove Solberg (Arntzen de Besche)

Minority Acquisitions under Merger Control Scrutiny in Norway – Key Learnings from the Recent Sector Alarm/Nokas Case

July 19, 2019

Abstract In its recent decision V2018-22 the Norwegian Competition Authority (‘NCA’) approved – subject to remedies – the acquisition by Sector Alarm AS ("Sector") of the small systems business of…