After the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) imposed a sanction on Siemens EOOD for abuse of superior bargaining position in May 2016, at the end of the year the regulating…
Are perceptions of increased pushback in Brussels and Washington on international combinations reflected in Irish enforcement? What change (if any) does new management at the Irish agency herald,…
In a decision adopted on 16 December 2016 and made public on 4 January 2017, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") fined Japanese company Canon for failure to file its acquisition of Toshiba…
On 5 December 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission ("NDRC") – one of the three Chinese antitrust authorities – issued its decision fining the local unit of Medtronic, a U.S.-listed…
On October 22, Astana (Kazakhstan) hosted the International Conference "Industrial Competition Advocacy in the EAEU cross-border markets", where issues related to the antitrust regulation in the EAEU…
By Daniel Schwarz, Clifford Chance, and Mark Katz, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Introduction
With the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) having finally been signed by the…
When discussing mergers, both Commission officials and private practitioners often characterise these as a “N to N-1”. We all regularly talk and hear about “6-to-5s”, “5-to-4s”, “4-to-3s”, “3-to-2s…
On 1 December 2016, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) obtained a novel “disqualification undertaking” from Daniel Aston, the managing director of online poster supplier Trod Limited,…
The second part of the blog on the FCO’s background paper on “Competition and Consumer Conduct – Conflict or Parallelism between Consumer Protection and Antitrust Law?” covers the interplay between…
On 28 November 2016, the Hong Kong Competition Commission ("HKCC") published an advisory bulletin calling upon the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and the Hong Kong Institute of Planners to take…
