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…
Recognising that innovation is essential to driving growth in Europe, the European Commission (EC) has made it one of the central themes in the modernisation of the EU merger control framework. The…
Leading up to Christmas 2024, the German Federal Government published its competition policy wishlist for the 2024–2029 EU Commission term. Anticipating the Commission’s revision of the regulation…
The central purpose of the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) is clear: to tackle distortions in the internal market caused by subsidies granted by non-EU states. But what if these subsidy-…
Advocate General Szpunar’s Opinion in case C-161/24 addresses a crucial issue at the intersection of copyright and competition law. The case concerns OSA’s practice of charging royalties to…
IntroductionThis article examines the recent judgment in C-653/23, TOODE SIA v. Valsts ieņēmumu dienests, which addresses the critical question of when State aid is deemed to have been "granted"…
The GENIUS Act, short for Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, is here. The Act legitimises the US stablecoin market by establishing the first comprehensive federal…
