In her recent opinion, Advocate General J. Kokott went over one of the most important elements for companies facing cartel sanction: the fines calculation method. If this specific point is often…
In a recent media appearance, the new President of the Argentine Antitrust Commission (CNDC) and the Trade Secretary, gave some insights into the current status of the local antitrust regime and…
On March 29, 2016, the Canadian Commissioner of Competition and Parkland Fuel Corp. entered into a consent agreement to resolve the Commissioner's challenge to Parkland's acquisition of Pioneer…
On March 18, 2016 the new law increasing notification thresholds (former draft law 2168a) was officially published. The law is expected to become effective on May 18, 2016.
The current financial…
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On 10 March 2016, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down judgments that provide useful clarification regarding limits on information requests issued by the European Commission…
Co-authored by Bill Batchelor & Tom Jenkins, Baker & McKenzie
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On 18 March 2016, the European Commission published an initial “Issues paper” on geo-blocking in the…
80th Lunch Talk of the Global Competition Law Center
Monday, April 4, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
EU Competition Law Enforcement and the Legacy of Ordo-liberalism: Myths and Realities
with…
by Anita Banicevic and Mark Katz[1]
2015 saw a number of interesting developments in cartel enforcement in Canada, the most important of which were setbacks suffered by Canada's competition…
Co-authored by Patrick Harrison and Audrey Silvain, Sidley Austin LLP.
There are few distinctions more important in EU competition law than that between the notion of a restriction “by object…
Following over 20 years of deliberations and finally the entry into force of the first cross-sector competition law in the Philippines last summer, the newly established Philippine Competition…