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…
On 28 November 2016 the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) launched public consultations on the draft Horizontal Merger Guidelines. The AMC invites to submit comments to the draft by 7 December…
On 4 November 2016, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce ("SAIC") – one of China's antitrust authorities – published on its website three decisions, whereby three payment encryption…
Introductory remarks
Following such landmark cases as Ryanair,[1] EDF[2] and ING,[3] one may observe a truly impressive expansion and development of the MEIP. While the EU Courts have (finally) drawn…
The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) held a conference with antitrust experts (professors and judges) on October 6. 2016, on “Competition and Consumer Conduct – Conflict or Parallelism between Consumer…
