The Brazilian Federal Government proposed to the Brazilian Congress on the 17th of September an amendment to its competition law regime via Bill No. 4675/2025 (the Bill). In essence, the proposed…
In December 2024, the Congress of Guatemala passed Decree 32-2024, the Competition Law. Although it is based on Initiative 5074, the bill was significantly modified by the congressional committee,…
A year ago, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission (EC) announced they would work on joint guidance on the interplay between the DMA and the GDPR. On the 9th of October…
IntroductionIn September 2025, and after the national holidays, the Chilean competition authority (Fiscalía Nacional Económica, hereafter referred to as “FNE”) announced the dismissal of a complaint…
The newly published Competition Law and Policy in the Western Balkans (edited by Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman, Gentjan Skara, and Alexandr Svetlicinii) is a pioneering contribution to a field that, until…
A year ago, the Japanese Government made the Mobile Software Competition Act (for short, MSCA) into law. The move represented the first ex ante regulation addressing market power in Asia to…
On 8 September 2025, the European Commission (“EC”) imposed a fine of €172,000 on Eurofield SAS (“Eurofield”) and its then-parent company Unanime Sport SAS (“Unanime Sport”) for providing incomplete…
On 5 September 2025, the European Commission ordered to end Google’s abusive practices in its dominant position (EEA-wide) in (i) publisher ad servers and (ii) programmatic ad-buying tools for the…
Suderow Fernández Abogadas, S.L.PBackgroundOn 23 July 2015, the Spanish Competition Authority (hereinafter, “CNMC”) issued a decision in case S/0482/13 Car Manufacturers. In it, it declared that…
The Burger King Merger: A Missed OpportunityIn June 2021, South Africa’s competition enforcers made headlines by blocking the acquisition of Burger King South Africa to an American private equity…
