The twin interim proceedings in the Vivendi/Lagardère gun-jumping investigation raise interesting legal issues in the wake of the ongoing case Meta Platforms v Commission (C-497/23 P), and in the…
Introduction
Like many competition authorities, the European Commission ("Commission") has far-reaching powers to ask for huge amounts of information for its competition law investigations (see…
Recently, the Commercial Court of Moscow backed a procedural decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). The FAS fined the Russian IT company Mail.Ru Group for failing to provide the…
The Court order of 29 October 2020 struck by the President of the General Court in a dispute between Facebook and the European Commission is probably the first time in a while where the essence of a…
The issuance of requests for information (“RFIs”) within the scope of an investigation or a merger control case can be deemed one of the main tools that enables, on the one hand, a competition…
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 (…
