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Krithika Ramesh , Payel Chatterjee , Vinay Shukla (Nishith Desai Associates)

WhatsApp Goes Through the Looking-Glass of India’s Competition Enforcement

March 27, 2021

On 24 March 2021, the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’) passed an order initiating investigation against WhatsApp Inc. (‘WhatsApp’) and Facebook Inc. (‘FB’) to determine if WhatsApp’s updated…

Ketevan Zukakishvili (Skadden) , Laura Tresoldi (Clifford Chance LLP, Italy)

Reconciling efficiency and protection of (sensitive) personal data in EU antitrust proceedings - Commentary on the Orders of the President of the General Court of 29 October 2020 in cases T‑451/20 R and T‑452/20 R

November 2, 2020

In the context of ongoing antitrust investigations into Facebook Inc.'s ('Facebook') data-related practices (AT.40628) and Facebook marketplace (AT.40684), on 13 March 2020 the European Commission (…

Peter Citron (White & Case, Belgium)

Partial annulment of European Commission decisions to order dawn raid inspections

October 9, 2020

On 5 October 2020, the General Court of the European Union (GC) partially annulled decisions of the European Commission (EC) to order on-the-spot inspections (dawn raids) of a number of French…